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Werner Herzog and David Lynch make quite a pair. Herzog, the German-born director of such films as "Fitzcarraldo," "Grizzly Man" and "Rescue Dawn," is a relentless adventurer and the master of external conflict, of man's desire to fling himself recklessly toward the void.

He obviously passed on it, but a video of him talking about his interview with George Lucas about directing the film came up at a recent Q&A and is below.

Even the most casual Star Wars and/or David Lynch scholar knows that Lynch was offered a gig directing Return of the Jedi and turned it down.

David Lynch poses with his work "Untitled" at the Max Ernst Museum. Photo: EFE/Oliver Berg.

Steven Boone at Big Media Vandalism has composed a mesmerizing collage using text from Jackson's 1988 biography "Moonwalk," audio interviews with MJ, and footage from some of Lynch's films, notably "The Elephant Man," "Mulholland Dr.," "The Straight Story," "The Grandmother" and "Eraserhead" to imagine a biography of Michael Jackson directed by ...

A frequent collaborator with former AFI co-student David Lynch, Frederick Elmes has supplied a dreamy, super-realistic visual style to four of Lynch's features, including "Eraserhead" and more recently, "Wild at Heart" . Raised in New Jersey, he became interested in photography when he was lent a Leica camera by his father.

The most important directors of the past 10 years aren't always the most prolific, though this series will require a director to have released at least 2 films.

I'm torn between dismissing the film as gross-out juvenilia and regarding it as raw religious mythmaking.

Australian horror attracts global interest [Thu 24/09/2009 10:44:03] Fragment has been busy attracting a following around the world after being chosen for Official Selection in a number of respected film festivals.

David Lynch is having an art show. Yes, that David Lynch. It isn't the first for the creative force whose obsessively weird sensibility has brought us films such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Inland Empire, and the TV series Twin Peaks.

Dave McGinn Globe and Mail update Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2009 03:56PM EDT E veryone knows David Lynch can give you nightmares, who knew he can make you smarter? Being exposed to surrealism, whether it's through Mr.

The prolific film-maker and producer of new film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? has inspired everything from burlesque acts to Tate Modern's theoretical exploration of his work Prolific ... director David Lynch.

IT HAS been 15 years since Jennifer Lynch made a film. Boxing Helena was her first, written at the age of 19 and directed at 23.

To get it out of the way: Coming back is so weird, I miss summer, I am insecure about my time here at Yale, I'm halfway done, what an incredible turning point in my life, I feel so mature, a metaphor about growing up that is funny yet poignant, self-deprecation, what classes am I gonna shop, never took Scully's class, I live on Old Campus again, a ...

We know what to expect when realist filmmakers take on abuse and hardship: screaming dads in wifebeater tees, caring but overwrought mothers, brothers and sisters who are felled by the homelife or have escaped it.

Are you reveling in your staycation this summer, as the economy bucks and reels? If you happen to be an under-employed movie buff with a rapidly emptying bank account, then brother, I've got a recommendation for you: David Lynch's online Interview Project : interviewproject.davidlynch.com . If you can access the Internets , then going for a drive ...

It would probably be naive of me to express any astonishment whatsoever that one of the most notable news sources in the world has turned to relentless coverage of the Cyrus family.

When Pitchfork announced in June that David Lynch had a forthcoming rock album, I was skeptical.

"a labyrinthine, Kafka-esque halfworld of chambers and baroque, macabre characters, all connected by a central staircase." Don't worry if you haven't heard of L'Ange , it managed to stay off my Cinema of the Weird radar for decades.

Jeff says: "My friend Juliet gave me this great essay that is simultaneously a love letter to David Lynch and a kick in the pants to the city of Philadelphia." Philadelphia has a problem with its statuary: we build lavish monuments to to the wrong people while letting the right ones go unmarked.