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Polling the films of director David Lynch

The rules:

- your list can include no more than half of the Lynch films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can list the maximum of five.

- i'll assume ballots are ranked unless you tell me otherwise. unranked ballots are fine.

- deadline for ballots: next Friday, in seven days, whatever day that is

- if anyone is watching films for these polls, then i'll extend the deadline three days, if someone requests an extension

- next poll: whoever posts the first ballot in this thread is free to nominate the director we poll next, unless you've nominated in this round already (everyone should get a chance). Already nominated this round: wba, greg x, ofrene, greennui, evelyn, bure, mesnalty, umbugbene, roscoe, st gloede, brian d, kanafani

umbugbene created an index on letterboxd of all of our previous polls here: letterboxd.com/umbugbene/list/index-of-all-scfz-director-polls/

one rule for nominees: at least 3 scfzers need to have seen 10+ of a nominee's films, or at least 4 scfzers need to have seen at least 8 of the nom's films, so if it isn't clear if that will be the case, we'll confirm that's true before moving forward

if 24 hours pass after a poll opens, and no one eligible to nominate has posted a ballot, then i'll nominate someone, and then we'll start over, and everyone will be able to nominate again

it would seem weird to do a lynch poll if we couldn't count twin peaks - the reboot is on letterboxd, so that's fine, but only the pilot (in a different edit) for the original series is on letterboxd. what i propose to do is count votes for the original series, and if it makes the final top ten, put the pilot in the letterboxd list with a note that it stands in for the whole series (assuming no one wants to vote for that pilot as a standalone film).

if you are voting for twin peaks, please be clear which one you mean - the original tv series, fire walk with me, or the 2017 series (or some other twin peaks thing) !

Inland Empire
Twin Peaks (1990 tv series)
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
The Straight Story

seen 15

Seen 3

Wild at Heart (one of my favorite films of all time and an extraordinary cinematic experience when I saw it a few years ago).

Dune

Eraserhead
Twin Peaks (original series)
Fire Walk with Me
On the Air

Seen 13

Seen 11
1. Blue Velvet (1986)
2. Wild at Heart (1990)
3. The Elephant Man (1980)
4. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
5. The Straight Story (1999)

Seen a bunch:

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Twin Peaks (2017)
3. Inland Empire
4. Twin Peaks (1990)
5. Eraserhead

greg x wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 8:48 pm Dune

Eraserhead
Twin Peaks
Fire Walk with Me
Inland Empire

greg - could you please specify which twin peaks

Seen 17

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Lost Highway
3. Inland Empire
4. Wild at Heart
5. Eraserhead

Wild at Heart probably deserves to be higher, but it doesn't surpass Mulholland Dr.

Mulholland Dr.
Twin Peaks the Return
Eraserhead
The Straight Story
Lost Highway

Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive

seen 6, generally don't like his stuff at all

elephant man

ERASERHEAD
PREMONITIONS OF AN EVIL DEED
BLUE VELVET
The Lynch-directed episodes of the original TWIN PEAKS series
THE ELEPHANT MAN

My feelings about Lynch have changed over time. I was a solid booster for many years, even during much scorn for my support of FIRE WALK WITH ME, and then Lynch took a turn along another path with that MULHOLLAND DRIVE thing, and well, he can go down that path and I'll wish him well and I'll always have the good stuff, but it looks like there won't be any more of it.

seen 9

Mulholland Drive
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
Lost Highway
Wild at Heart

Inland Empire is too much for me..

haven't watched any in quite a long time. so i won't vote

1. Inland Empire
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Lost Highway
4. Twin Peaks: The Return
5. Wild at Heart

eraserhead
inland empire
the straight story
blue velvet
rabbits

*seen fourteen

greg - could you please specify which twin peaks

I guess the original series if you're going to count that as a whole. I might switch something out for On the Air then too, if the TV stuff all counts as his.

hotel room (blackout episode)
twin peaks: fire walk with me
inland empire
blue velvet
the straight story

Seen 11. Some of his movies I like very much; others didn't apeal to me at all.

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. The Elephant Man
3. Blue Velvet
4. Wild at Heart
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Worst: Dune

Twin Peaks: The Return
Mulholland Drive
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
INLAND EMPIRE
Lost Highway

01. Wild at Heart (1990)
02. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
03. Blue Velvet (1986)
04. Mullholland Dr. (2001)
05. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995)

Lynch seen: 12

PS: I don't vote for TV series.

Seen 18

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Fire Walk with Me
3. Blue Velvet
4. Lost Highway
5. The Elephant Man

I've seen 15+ of his films.

1. MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
2. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (2017)
3. LOST HIGHWAY (1997)
4. INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
5. ERASERHEAD (1977)

Silga wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 8:46 pm Seen 3

i keep forgetting to ask for our next nomination! silga, you can choose our next director if you want

Coen brothers

results

1. Mulholland Drive (2001) -- 52 pts
2. Inland Empire (2006) -- 28 pts
3. Eraserhead (1977) -- 26 pts
4. Blue Velvet (1986) -- 24 pts
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) -- 21 pts
5. Lost Highway (1997) -- 21 pts
7. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) -- 19 pts
8. Wild at Heart (1990) -- 18 pts
9. Twin Peaks (1990) -- 11 pts
10. The Elephant Man (1980) -- 10 pts
11. The Straight Story (1999) -- 8 pts
12. Hotel Room (1993) -- 5 pts
12. Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995) -- 5 pts
12. Dune (1984) -- 5 pts
15. On the Air (1992) -- 1 pt
15. Rabbits (2002) -- 1 pt

Late ballot:

Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Inland Empire

ok, updated the results, small changes!

posted this to letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-155/