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From: grl@charm.UUCP (George Lake)
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Subject: Re: Eraserhead
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 09:34:01 EDT
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This film was made by the director, David Lynch,
 when he was a student at AFI.
It was made for very little money (mostly financed by AFI and
one of their rich patrons-- I think in this case it was Gloria
Vanderbilt).  The actors were generally AFI fellows and other people
who were more anxious to be seen than to get paid.  Lynch is
supposed to have paid them points after the film "took off".

Lynch is first and foremost a visual stylist.  Narrative doesn't 
interest him much and judging from his films, he's certainly not
good at it.  He has only made three films (Dune and Elephant Man
are the other two), spending most of his time painting.

Eraserhead is mostly a depiction of hell.  The scene where the girl
is singing and the beasties are crawling is the closest that I've
ever come to seeing hell, so in that sense it's a success.

 I do agree that it's mostly a bore-- I thought Dune was an even
greater snooze.