Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0018365, Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:06:53 -0400

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David Lynch's Interview Project T.J.





American film director David Lynch is one of the more interesting working artists in the world today. I interviewed him a few years back, and the man is, mirabile dictu, the real deal, i.e, as smart as he is eccentric. But Lynch is not so unconventional that he cannot get financing for his pathbreaking projects when he wants to. David's interests include transcendental meditation (which he has practiced for 30 years), German metaphysics and, of course, film. A side interest with David -- something that obviously informs his cinematography -- is the American landscape. The highways, drive-ins, the motels, the backroads in the evenings, the monuments and the people of this country all hold a strange fascination for Lynch.


The American road is the central metaphor for David Lynch. Vladimir Nabokov, another peculiarly American genius, wrote, arguably, the greatest road novel, Lolita. In keeping on that same theme, Lynch, his son Austin and his friend Jason took a road trip recently, driving around the country shooting brief interviews with people that they met on the road trip. Above is an interview with a young man named T.J.


Lynch and his crew do a total of 121 interviews in all, The interview here -- via VBS -- features TJ, whom the gang ran into in a parking lot in North Carolina. The interview is characteristically Lynchian and a fine piece of independent documentary that speaks to America's state in the present.







Posted on 06/01/09 in Hard Times












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