David Lynch The Lime Green Set
by David Lynch
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Actor: Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem DaFoeDirector: David Lynch
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Absurda
Movie Reviews of David Lynch The Lime Green Set
Movie Review: a little something for everyone
Summary: 4 Stars
For newbies, you get three Lynch classics, really the cornerstone trilogy of his early career ("Eraserhead-Blue Velvet-Wild at Heart.")
"Eraserhead": Dark and foreboding, this film has the texture and consistency of rancid pudding, and a narrative that is like Kafka transplanted into industrial-dream Americana. It creeps up on you, and that is certainly the way it should be. The film seems to be composed like a lovingly staged, beautifully photographed exploration of a series of set-pieces that are make of oddball detritus: eerie lounge songs, faulty lights, menacing elevators, menacing dogs. but it has a melancholy aspiration: it lights the fire of souls who haunt the American night, and this is why it has attained cult status. Like Lynch's more mature works, this one is about decaying beauty and the abuse of innocence.
"Blue Velvet": Lynch's breakthrough suburban American avant-garde is propelled by squeaky-clean performances by Laura Dern and Kyle Maclachlan, and repulsively RE-pelled by Denis Hopper, who does his best method-acting in search of the perfect portrayal of the horrors of inhalant abuse. The eerie grandeur and lush beauty of the film lead some to compare it to Bunuel or even Fellini, and it was/is widely regarded by academics and writers in the film world as THE great film of it's decade. The re-mastered sound of the DVD is heaven-sent, an enveloping, spiraling trick of lunacy that goes far beyond what was previously heard on video for this film.
IN FACT, while Lynch may regrettably not provide commentary tracks for his film, he HAS used the medium of DVD to up the ante' on his already bone-chilling use of sound, and it's intricate inter-twining with music that seems brought by cosmic winds from another planet entirely.
"Blue Velvet" is am imaginarium-it makes you wish you could live in it's forbidden world, even if it would only be for a fretful few seconds.
"Wild-at-Heart:" This is the least interesting film Lynch has ever directed, including Dune, because it reneges on the promise of kissing us with phantoms and celluloid ghosts-when they do appear (as in Lula's vision of the Wicket Witch of the East) they are not bogged down so much by iconographic muddiness and psychological baggage as they are simply to TOO EASILY able to be quarantined from the real/reel world of the film. Nonetheless, Laura Dern here is truly a supernova star, on fire and burning and spreading contagious sexual debris. Her performance interlocks perfectly with Nicolas Cage, who brings to the piece the true humanization of cliche'.
And the supporting cast is notable, a la' "Twin Peaks" we are treated to Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie, Diane Ladd, and Crispin Glover, who does his darnedest to try and convince us he is no longer taking Prescribed psychotropics. Sandwiches? He does not so much portray obsessive-compulsive disorder as he does embody the energy of a magnet.
And that Is the essence of David Lynch; magnetism, titillation, attraction, repulsion-in other words, a world of POLARITY.
Summary of David Lynch The Lime Green Set
Writer, director and artist David Lynch has personally selected these works, including many pieces new to DVD, and a Mystery disc of content taken from Lynch's own personal archives and available only in this box set. BOX SET INCLUDES: ERASERHEAD - REMASTERED VERSION, ERASERHEAD SOUNDTRACK, THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH, THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE ELEPHANT MAN EXTRAS - DVD DEBUT, WILD AT HEART, INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY No. 1 - DVD DEBUT, BLUE VELVET - NEW LYNCH APPROVED 5.1 SOUND MIX, DUMBLAND, MYSTERY DISC - DVD DEBUT, INCLUDES 32 DELETED OR EXTENDED SCENES FROM WILD AT HEART, 40 PAGE COLLECTORS PICTURE BOOK.Animation DVD Video
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