Film Still Tuesday

Lost Highway, by David Lynch

2001: A Space Odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick

Magnolia, by Paul Thomas Anderson

Twenty Years Ago

Twin Peaks: April 8th, 1990 - April 8th, 2010

A Pair

Doug Aitken

David Lynch, "Twin Peaks; Fire Walk With Me"

There has to be something mysterious.

Still from My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done - an upcoming film by Herzog and David Lynch (source).

There's a interview with filmmaker Werner Herzog on Slate today (thanks for the tip C-Monster). One particularly interesting part of the interview reads,

Jacob Weisberg: I've seen you quoted as saying that you'd rather die than see an analyst. Can you elaborate?

Werner Herzog.: I think it's a mistake of the 20^th century. You could not live in a house that was illuminated to every last single corner. And human beings become uninhabitable when they are scrutinized and illuminated into their last little dark abysses. Just leave people as they are and don't touch it. I think psychoanalysis is one of the great mistakes of the 20^th century. It's one of the reasons why I would dismiss the 20^th century as a mistake. I think the 20^th century in its entirety was a mistake. Psychoanalysis is just a small brick in my argument, that I could build up.

J.W.: Filmmaking developed in the 20^th century.

W.H.: Yes, yes, some good sides as well. No doubt.

J.W.: But I'm interested in what you say about psychoanalysis. Is the concern that self-understanding would make one less of an artist, or make people less interesting in general?

W.H.: I think people become uninhabitable, as I say, and less interesting. There has to be something mysterious. Just think about being with a woman who had not, no mystery left at all. If everything was explained about a woman, it wouldn't fascinate me anymore. If I could be explained like an encyclopedia, it would be awful.

(my emphasis added)

New to Our Collection

Jesse Riggle, "Diane, last night I dreamed I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop...", Acrylic on Basswood, 5x8", 2009

My wife had this painting of Agent Cooper from the TV show Twin Peaks commissioned from Jesse Riggle for my birthday. It was a fantastic surprise. I've mentioned Riggle's work on this blog previously and now I'm the proud owner of an original.

David Lynch stencil by The Dude Company

David Lynch stencil by The Dude Company
Originally uploaded by vgt_vegetag

A Minute with David Lynch - on Painting

Art and Film Friday; Vol. 4 - Twin Peaks; Fire Walk With Me

still from Twin PeaksUntitled, 26.5” x 18.5", by Tiffany Bozic

still from "Fire Walk With Me"

“Disguised in Perham”, 2003 by Franco Angeloni. - found at vvork.

still from "Fire Walk With Me"Tim Hawkinson, Balloon Self-Portrait, inflatable latex sculpture, life size, cast from the artist's body, turned inside out, then inflated by an air compressor, Ace Gallery, NYC.

still from "Fire Walk With Me"

John Hathorn, "Grammar of Water 12th State", 60" X 56", oil on canvas

still from "Fire Walk With Me"Balthus

Agent Dale Cooper in a still from "Fire Walk With Me"William Betts, Following, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 54 inches

still from "Fire Walk With Me"Marloes van Doom photograph from the Nightmarry series

more "Fire Walk With Me" stills here and here.

Twin Peaks Fashion/Art

Ahren Hertel, "Ms. Horne", Oil on Panel, 7.5 x 10 inches - from the Idiot Box exhibition

Audery Horne from the Twin Peaks image archive

A Twin Peaks fashion story in the August-September issue of Bust Magazine from 2008. Photographs by Gabrielle Revere. Found here.