Comments on: David Lynch’s “Grandmother” Makes It All Better

By: The Grandmother (1970) « Notes on Short Film

The Grandmother (1970) « Notes on Short Film — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:38:46 +0000

[...] Spartan imagery, and most notably, that “creeping dread, that beautiful paranoia” (Coilhouse) that his films build slowly. The aesthetics of The Grandmother and Eraserhead are quite different, [...]

By: Icelandbob

Icelandbob — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:27:53 +0000

Wow that was a blast from the past! last saw the film in the early nineties on BBC2 (when they showed PROPER stuff) when i was about 15. It was probably one of the most disturbing tales i´ve ever seen. In many ways it probably in kin to those grisly old school fairytales…

By: Ana Droid

Ana Droid — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:52:33 +0000

HOLY CRAP!

That was great!

I hate Lynch apart from Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, so this is very nice to see.

By: R.

R. — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:17:02 +0000

I’m going to have to watch this. I remember seeing on Youtube in 2007 bits and pieces of this in a fanmade video for the band Interpol and I just loved the imagery.

By: Nadya

Nadya — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:07:23 +0000

Kai, we actually did do a post on Tarsem (almost exactly a year ago!), and it generated some interesting discussion:

http://coilhouse.net/2008/04/11/the-falls-struggle-for-release

By: kai

kai — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:45:51 +0000

Let’s have a Coilhouse post on Tarsem!
Visual Sexiness indeed!
I wish I had a spare hour to watch “Grandmother”! Although I like Lynch a bit better after he started having a film budget….

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:17:16 +0000

Sam, wow – thank you for that! [I stopped it before the spoilers]

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:18:02 +0000

Aw, sweet! I almost rented a DVD of Lynch’s short films yesterday, but instead went for The Fall, which you should check out, if only for its visual sexiness. And one particularly fabulous collar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZECJDyR028&feature=related (spoilers after 0:50)