David Lynch

Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. In Possum, Phillip (Sean Harris) struggles to destroy a puppet that keeps coming back no matter how he destroys it. In concept Possum sounds like a familiar scary story, but I can assure…

The film was broken when I watched it, because there were no colours.

David Lynch’s oneiric masterpiece Mulholland Drive is a film that masterfully plays with and regularly breaks audience expectation.

Cult movie legend, singer/guitarist and World War II navy veteran Harry Dean Stanton has died of natural causes at the age of 91. Stanton died on Friday 15 September in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles of natural causes.…

There have been a quite a few essay/archive films released recently, and for the most part they can been fairly hit and miss affairs. Take, for instance, The Greatest Shows On Earth, which brought together amazing archive footage from the…

Blue Velvet remains, for me, the greatest movie that David Lynch has ever produced. Oh, Twin Peaks remains his finest achievement, but Blue Velvet is the forerunner to that magnificent TV show. It's the film that has best married his…

As we explore the 1980s this month here at Flickfeast it becomes clear just who made the decade for film fans. Either by their inclusion here, or by their notable absence, these people helped to define the decade and had their most glorious…

I was really looking forward to catching this documentary about one of my favourite actors when I first saw that it was scheduled in the EIFF 2013 program. And, as everyone warned me when I went on and on about how smoothly this year was…

The eagerness for Steve McQueen’s latest film, Twelve Years a Slave (2013), comes as no surprise after the success of both his first foray into feature films, Hunger (2008), and the highly anticipated follow up, Shame (2011). As a Turner…

The big hitters from the world of cinema way in on the digital debate in this documentary helmed, rather improbably, by Keanu Reeves. Side By Side is sure to intrigue cinephiles. Cinema is in a state of flux. Digital technology now sits…