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David Lynch Interview Project

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If you like interviews like these, and if you don’t know him already, you’ll love Studs Terkel. His interviews with many different people are online at https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/.

I’ve been watching these once a day since the announcement of the re-release. These are a mixture of heart-warming and heart-breaking but they’re all very much American. The film style varies but is also very Lynchian.

These are great. I am thinking when we look back on the 21st Century one of the major artistic movements will be artists delving into the lives of everyday, working-class, non-college educated people. Lynch, clearly was ahead of the curve on this, or maybe he never didn't look at those lives. But, man after 2016 a whole lot of filmmakers, TV show runners, comedians, musicians turned their eyes that direction.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoK9ER8KwOg&list=PLg_0zd1h55...

Love this, everyone should be interviewed, everyone should have a documentary, everyone's life is different and fascinating in some way.

I'm not sure how similar these are but this reminds me of the Soft White Underbelly series of interviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos

swub has a lot of interesting and "interesting" interviews ... but pretty much all of them feel rather off and off-putting to me. oddly exhibitionistical, lots of them strike me as made up bullshit by people desperately seeking attention and the guy has something uncanny valley about his "empathy". it's not totally honest like with louis theroux or others but also not fake enough to be entertaining. it's lying somewhere in between and leaves me every time with an unpleasant sensation in my stomach which is why i just can't really watch those interviews longer than 10 minutes. also he is producing them like there is no tomorrow. in short: i don't like the guy.

> lots of them strike me as made up bullshit by people desperately seeking attention

There’s a lot of that going round to be fair :-/

Maybe I missed it somewhere obvious but it’s unclear to me what years these were filmed.

I’ve watched about 20 and it Seems like between 2010-2015

Does anyone know?

The video description of the first video says: ".... on October 1, 2024 to commemorate the 15 year anniversary" - so your guess seems to be pretty much spot on!

I'm loving this. Curious did they start filming in 2009 or were they all released in 2009?

It seems like these are produced by David Lynch's son and not David Lynch himself?

Produced by David Lynch and Sabrina S Sutherland, directed by Austin Jack Lynch and Jason S.

my favourite interview snippet with him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjoMEw2RYlA):

> DL: Eraserhead is my most Spiritual Film

> I: Elaborate on that?

> DL: no

Incredible. I can’t wait for this.

you don't have to! all the interviews are there now https://www.youtube.com/@davidlynchpresentsIP/videos

I'm a sucker for documentarian stuff like this, thank you.

So he uploaded all these in one batch like air dropping digital newspaper clippings on us.

title is missing a " Presents " in the middle

Wonderful. It's a good reminder for the urbanites who live in their own bubble... The bulk of the country (any country for that matter) is made of people like this, not celebrities and intellectuals.

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