Room to Dream

I’ve always admired Lynch’s work, I remember being awed, surprised, and sometimes shocked by his early films: The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. And his somewhat surreal television series Twin Peaks was so different to anything else I’d seen (perhaps anyone had seen) before. But I’d lo......more

Many books have been written about Lynch and his work. If you ask me, he is the most interesting filmmaker still alive for a number of reasons. I will always sing the praises of Kurosawa, Kubrick, Jarmusch, Gilliam and the dozen or so other directors I purposefully rewatch, but Lynch is a revolution......more

Room To Dream This is a very enjoyable biography told with a dual perspective that I found very readable and descriptive. I’m not quite sure how it got lost in my TBR pile, as I should have read it much sooner and wish I had now, as much as I’ve liked it. Filled with quirky stories about David Lynch......more

What makes for a good biography? I have been pondering that question since reading the utterly beguiling ‘Room to Dream’. Interestingly, Kristine McKenna’s name on the author page is accompanied by that of David Lynch himself, which makes one wonder if this doesn’t stray into autobiographical territ......more

This was so much fun in the beginning and I got teary-eyes multiple times, laughed on the street while listening, felt serotonin for the first time since forever, etc etc, but by the end of it, the book got to a place where it significantly complicated my relationship to David Lynch and his work. An......more