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Ranking His Work

posted 10 years ago by cinefreakdude
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How would you rank his creative output?

My ordering would be:

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Twin Peaks (Not including the season 2 episodes which Lynch neither wrote nor directed)
3. Eraserhead
4. Blue Velvet
5. Wild at Heart
6. Inland Empire
7. Lost Highway
8. The Elephant Man
9. The Straight Story
10. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
11. Rabbits
13. Dumbland
14. Dune

5, 6, 7, & 8 are virtually tied. They're almost equally great and absolutely showcase Lynch's artistic genius.

"Dune" is really his only failure in my opinion.

[–] PaulIsAlive (181) a day ago

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Lost Highway
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
4. Blue Velvet
5. The Straight Story
6. Eraserhead
7. Wild at Heart
8. Dune

Shamefully, I've never watched Elephant Man.

I don't take Inland Empire seriously because it looks like a bunch of unfinished projects slapped together in the editing room.

TV and web series should be in a separate list.

[–] PSville (691) 20 hours ago

Dune, Blue Velvet, Elephant Man and Eraserhead are my favorites. In other words, his early stuff. I haven't watched the Straight Story and watched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me before watching any Twin Peaks episode, so I didn't get it.