Lines of dialogue (i.e “this ain’t no Emerald City” and ”I wish I was somewhere over the rainbow”) and visions of the good and wicked witches form a message about how differentiating between real and the imaginary is never as easy as clicking your heels – particularly in a Lynch movie. There are numerous references to The Wizard of Oz. It’s potent like a bad dream seeping into daytime, as if painted in the gaps between consciousness and subconsciousness. Like most Lynch productions, this film – which was adapted from Barry Gifford’s novel and won the Cannes Film Festival’s prized Palme d’Or – is, indeed, a wild and intensely atmospheric ride. Or perhaps, given the film in question – 1990’s Wild at Heart – features fire as a visual motif and revolves around violent no-goodniks, it is a combo forged in that other place: the one down below. Like all great art, you might like something OK one day and subsequently find it to be a monumentally great, important, heartbreaking piece when you see it again 25 years later.The combination of David Lynch as director and Nicolas Cage as lead actor is a match made in heaven. Please keep in mind that rankings like this are fluid, even more so with an auteur like Lynch.
We tapped Knox to rank every film Lynch directed - including some bonus picks for webseries, commercial and short film - in order of his personal favorites. And beginning on May 24, the Texas Theatre is hosting a 12-day David Lynch retrospective, curated by Daniel Knox. His appearance in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans helped remind some more mainstream viewers that the guy who made Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks is still alive and well. Last year, Lost Highway celebrated its 25th anniversary with some well-attended theatrical screenings and a Lynch-approved, super-packed Blu-ray release. Earlier this spring, the Criterion Collection released a new edition of Inland Empire. We’re in the midst of another period of David Lynch appreciation.
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