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There are few places more fascinating than the mind of David Lynch, and you'll find it in Paris this spring. Until May 27, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art presents "The Air Is on Fire," an exhibit featuring artistic works from the enigmatic American filmmaker of Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland...
...gets to skip the awkward step where he turns over control of his vision to those linear folks, studio marketers. "People seeing the film together on a big screen in a dark room with really good sound is really important to me," says Lynch, who released his first film, Eraserhead, himself in 1977. "But any film like mine that's not seen as a summer blockbuster is getting harder to get into the theaters. It's so depressing...
DIED. JACK NANCE, 53, actor, who starred in David Lynch cult classics, including the movie Eraserhead and the TV series Twin Peaks. Nance was found dead in his home in South Pasadena, California, a day after being hit on the head during a fight at a doughnut shop...
...have hit. Fortunately, Cannes offered a palate cleanser, a detoxification, in the form of Stuart Samuels' documentary Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. It focuses on six films - El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, The Harder They Come, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingos and Eraserhead - that earned cult status in the 70s through midnight screenings at venues like Ben Barenholtz's Elgin Theatre in Manhattan...
...when she wakes up and then again in the afternoon. "At the end of the day, all that star stuff doesn't mean anything. Transcendental Meditation reminds you that it's how you feel inside that's important. If you have that, you have everything." Lynch, who also directed Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, has been sitting for 90 minutes twice a day since 1973. "I catch more ideas at deeper and deeper levels of consciousness, and they have more clarity and power," he says. Imagine the messed-up stuff Lynch might come up with if he meditated for four hours...