David Lynch, Dennis Lim
David Lynch, Dennis Lim
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David Lynch
The Man from Another Place

Author: Dennis Lim

Series: Icons

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/03/2015


Synopsis

At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch’s work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch’s life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation.David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, Dennis Lim’s remarkably smart and concise book, proposes several lenses through which to view Lynch and his work: through the age-old mysteries of the uncanny and the sublime, through the creative energies of surrealism and postmodernism, through ideas of America and theories of good and evil. Lynch himself often warns against overinterpretation. And accordingly, this is not a book that seeks to decode his art or annotate his life—to dispel the strangeness of the Lynchian—so much as one that offers complementary ways of seeing and understanding one of the most distinctive bodies of work in modern cinema. Its spirit is true to its subject, in remaining suggestive rather than definitive, in allowing what Lynch likes to call “room to dream,” and in honoring the allure of the unknown and the unknowable.

About Dennis Lim

Dennis Lim is a writer and film curator in New York City and the director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. A former contributor to the New York Times, he is also the editor of The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits (2006).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on January 09, 2016

As a Lynch obsessive, I'm as keen as any other to learn more about the worlds the visionary auteur creates, as well as the worlds he himself inhabits. In this insightful, occasionally thought-provoking book, Lim manages to address the needs of his audience succinctly and chronologically, with author......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 25, 2017

Había leído el libro por abril pero deje un capítulo pendiente: el referente a Inland Empire, que era la única película que me faltaba de ver de David Lynch. Ayer la vi, y hoy terminé el libro. Buenos análisis, y sobre todo, buena explicación del contexto en el que se crearon las películas de este di......more

Goodreads review by Sofía on May 06, 2025

RIP mi querido Lynch pero siempre en mi corazón......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 25, 2017

A revealing, highly accessible overview of the enigma who is David Lynch. The strength of the book is that the writer focuses on the core of what most Readers probably want to know more about rather than minutiae regarding the Lynch ancestral history and what a former teacher might have had to say a......more

Goodreads review by Vendedor de rápida on June 28, 2017

El crítico Dennis Lim escribe un completo, práctico y sencillo repaso a la carrera de David Lynch con algunas referencias a su vida privada. Afortunadamente no es una biografía pero tampoco un estudio académico. La valoración de las películas del director norteamericano se dejan leer con interés y s......more


Quotes

“Reading Lim’s book feels like a visit to the Lynchian world—full of dreamy grey space. It’s transportive. It’s thorough. It’s work—but it’s worth it.” —Refinery29The Man from Another Place is a very well written ‘cinema-therapy’ session on the career of David Lynch, one of the few real auteurs left. His movies, obsessions, studio hassles, and personal life are all revealed in a smart, readable analysis by author Dennis Lim, who makes for the perfect film shrink.” —John Waters“David Lynch’s brilliance as an artist is further illuminated by the laser intelligence of Dennis Lim’s commentary. Packed with new ideas regarding this most enigmatic of American filmmakers and refreshingly free of jargon, DL on DL is a dazzling performance. It is also a pleasure to read.” —J. Hoberman, co-author of Midnight Movies