Kyle MacLachlan’s Closet Picks 

Doppelganger cup?

Indeed.

@@tb-cg6vd Rather, Kyle MacLachlan is just a worthy person and clearly understands that the stage must be left at the peak of fame and go, let's say, to teachers. Only a strong person is capable of such a decision. All the other famous "stars" cannot be kicked out "from the stage" even with kicks.

Get a life.

For a split second, I read that as "kind of decent human-being." Which I guess is still pretty good.

@REGGIE JOHNSON how do we smell versace..

@REGGIE JOHNSON yes but in sweet way..

In the summer of 1990, my parents had a restaurant housed in a caboose in front of the antique store "Yesterday's Village" in Yakima, Washington. I was obsessed with Twin Peaks at the time, and everyone around there knew it. Kyle visited the antique store that summer on a day I wasn't there, so friends asked him if he gave autographs, and he said yes. He signed an autograph with the inscription, "See you up in Twin Peaks!" with two little peaks drawn next to it. I still have it. (One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I wasn't there that day, lol.)

i’ve met him twice and he’s been so kind!

Jade give two rides.

Squeeze his hand off.

I was thinking of Chauncey Gardener the whole time. I feel quite validated to know that Kyle was thinking the same thing.

HELLLOOOOOOO

That honestly didn’t register with me until seeing this

There are some awesome videos out there of David and Kyle sitting down and talking about working together. Kyle always gets embarrassed by David's praise for his acting. I know some people found Dougie annoying (I was cool with it) but apparently that was pretty much all Kyle and his creation.

And or Chrysta Bell...

“Can you elaborate on your picks?” David Lynch: No.

@@ZodsSnappedNeck _then elaborates_

yes!

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Today September 8 is Peter Sellers’ 97th birthday!

He also played multiple characters in Kubrick’s prior film, Lolita. Interestingly, his role in Kyle’s pick ‘Being There’ is two roles simultaneously, depending on how who is interacting with him. It’s one of the finest performances I’ve ever seen. He has to be the simpleton he is but also a contemplative man of taste and wealth simultaneously (and a few other flourishes). It’s remarkable.

@@wehosrmthink7510 Except he died of a heart attack about 40 odd years ago, having sex.

Shirley McClain gave a fabulous performance in Being There. One of her best - very underappreciated.

That IS an excellent question. Too bad you didn’t share his answer!

@@maddieb.4282 That WAS his answer...get it?

@@matthewanthony5940no

"I'm great in this!"

Most guests I've watched tend to do that. Or at least directors they've worked with. I don't exactly understand how this series works, I just watch it cuz it has lotsa great people. Hahaha.

At least he put it back for someone else.

Heh, I don't think there's anything wrong with a little shameless self-promotion. Especially if it's a film that the actor or director was proud to be a part of.

He put it back.

it’s never too late to discover great cinema! please don’t give up on it :)

@@ririschannelx I don't think I will. I am even looking into the Turner Classics movies. I saw Bicycle Thieves. I was astonished. A good movie with some moving points and a message. You didn't need superhero sci fi effects to get something out of the movie. ANOTHER ONE i saw was "8 and Half" i think its called. the French movies I tried, I really couldn't understand. Kind of bummer.

@@lukeyznaga7627 Feel free to come here to ask for more movie recommendations! What were the French movies you couldn't understand? Maybe I or someone else can point you towards movies you would get more out of.

@@Melancthon7332 Let me get back to you on that. I know one of them was about Existensalism.

@@Melancthon7332 Red Balloon I understood, the others: La Nuit americaine and Breatheless

LUCKY! (Napoleon Dynamite voice) :D

Yakima represent!

🫡

It's a very good film to watch with your mother.

​@@themessenger2948 i have watch mullholand drive with my mom and it was last film we watched together lol

I walked in on my mom watching it on cable. I was 13 or 14 years old and she immediately made me leave the room. Of course it only made me want to watch it even more and a few years later I did just that. What a great movie 😊.

Nice, I love a good Frank Booth quote

@@chiefscheider Twin Peaks

LCR and _Le Samouraï_ are great choices if one wants to access Delon's works.

I think Keana Reeves is just as likeable.🙂

Only Lynch himself. Or Matt and Trey :)

Matthew Modine

I agree w/ you. The only one I can think of off hand who affects me the same way, is Patrick Wilson. Classy, sexy, talented, etc etc.

Paul McCartney

yes, excellent description, Cadinho. I want to feel the same kind of passion about these films, and learn more about these people!

Nothing?

gee, becuase, they're actors and if they treated it differently, they'd not use it ???

Criterion has a streaming service. For 12 bucks a month YOU can be the kid in the candy store.

One of my favorite adulthood actors.

I need to get the DVD - had the VHS in the '90s.

Haha! Shouldn't your handle be audreyhorne?

People will start to value Hollywood very soon, with the rise of Netflix and the death of the theaters.

They are very talented and should be admired but the woke bollocks needs to end.

Hollywood, and any big industry, will always attract a slimy herd of power-hungry sociopaths. Well-adjusted people like Kyle and Lynch will unfortunately always be the exception, as they don't share the desire to be treated as all powerful gods.

I took my twins to foreign movies when they were 7. They had to read the subtitles! And when there was a naked woman, I told them, "bc this isn't an American movie the female won't DIE."

@@Nonesovile96 And pre ww2 Germany

Part of it is, he works out... which I can tell you from first hand experience. I was at a horror convention he attended, and one morning, in the hotel gym, somehow I ended up lifting weights next to Kyle. Ultimately I decided not to sneak a photo or talk to him because i didnt wanna be "that guy", and no one wants that when you're working out.

Yep!!

​@@DanJackson1977good for him. Yeah he was BUILT and in terrific shape when he was young. U can tell from his older roles he still tries to take care of his temple.

Dune is one of my favorite books, I personally loved the 1984 movie, and the 2 mini-series on Syfy channel, more than the newest movie. I may change my mind about the new one, when the second part arrives.

@@benwu7980 As much as I love Kyle, Alec Newman in the Sci-fi miniseries was a great inspired choice. He had the ability to let the character breath and show a much deeper truer character arc of spoiled Paul to messiah Maud'dib unlike the rushed heroes journey that Kyle's DUNE is forced to take. Saying that I love both versions whole heartedly and without DUNE I probably wouldn't have given Twin Peaks a chance. As for the 2021 Dune, Timothy is just fine as moody broody Paul but can he capture the messiah Paul that Alec got so right. I'm interested in seeing how Zendaya will portray Chani other than the beauty shots/dream Chani but over all I think the 2021 Dune is definitely Dune for the masses, nothing too out of the box, fairly faithful, entirely predictable but beautifully shot. Also doesn't help that I've read the book a gazillion times and watched the original and sci-fi series a whole ton...

@@keanueraine & @benwu Lynch DUNE and Sting got me to read and follow the novels back in the 80's, the TV Movie series versions 2000-DUNE and the most 2003 Children of Dune are the standard the new films have to live upto for me and this first one was lacking the book character dialogue & depth that was filmed but was cut for studio mandated time! So I don't hope much for the next ones. CoD series got me to discover James MacAvoy's acting talent as he stood toe2toe even above other seasoned standout thespians like the actors for Jessica, Stilgar and even Alec Newman. Game of Thrones showed how even more DUNE needed to be presented and special showings of the first 2 installment episodes could have been in selected theaters if Denis was so admant about theater experience.

Dune 2022 was epic but this was/is/will ever be MY Paul Atreides!

First of all..as I said above, maybe Kyle was actually too old to play Paul, but mainly, Kyle is the best thing in it, because Kyle knew the book well, and understood it and the character Paul Atreides better than anyone. It wasn't Kyle's fault the movie bombed, it was a myriad of other issues. Kyle brings a believable gravitas to an otherwise total mess of a movie. Lynch knew Kyle understood DUNE, and knew he'd be great for the role. Same with Blue Velvet. He trusted Kyle, and Kyle delivered the goods both times. And vice versa.

Really? I feel like now with the accessibility of streaming and other means of procuring more obscure films through the internet, as well as the rise of independent theaters, it's easier than ever to find good cinema. I grew up in the midwest, so the only options I had for seeing films were either through a video rental store/library or a cineplex. I genuinely cannot imagine what it must have been like in the 70s for example, before VHS, to live in a rural part of the US and have an interest in films. You wouldn't have much exposure outside of the major hollywood blockbusters, let alone any foreign films. As much as I like to be a grump about the current state of popular cinema, and popular culture at large, I think it would be in bad faith to say plainly that movies today aren't what they used to be. I'm Thinking of Ending Things, First Cow, and Red Rocket are all great American films which came out in the last few years. Part of the problem is tied up with the lack of a discernible overarching narrative to post-WWII, or more accurately post cold war, globalized western society- one of the focal points of PoMo.

My first viewing was around the same age and it was a 2nd generation VHS copy, so it genuinely felt like I was watching an elicit forbidden movie, it emphasised the dark, gritty vibe to watch it that way. I hadn’t felt genuinely terrified since watching Alien when it was televised in the UK a few years before. I think there are great films to be seen now - but also some dubious “Lynchian fables” (like perhaps Lamb or Men or Beneath the Silver Lake) which don’t quite work. Too many ‘tributes’ are made - to giallo, to Spielberg, to golden age or silent cinema, everything’s all Taratino’d up.

​@@MrMusicbyMartin I love "Alien" and also "Aliens". Alien freaked me out when I watched it very late at night (on VHS), when the rest of my family wasn't home. There are definitely good films being made today, but you have to sift through the garbage and re-makes to find them. It's always exciting when you discover something unique and engaging. Blue Velvet on Blu-ray is beautiful to watch.

Well said brother.

Take the rose colored glasses off my dude. There was a TON of garbage made back then, and frankly, most everything created, Film, music, book stage is garbage. Its only the cream that floats to our eye level. What we CAN say about then and now, at least then they didnt have an endless stream of vomitting up rehashes, tv shows, video games and otherwise un creative source materials.

Looked _exactly_ like him, too.

Good to know, thanks for this.

Lost Highway was shyyyyyttteeeee

@@ronbuil6923No it wasn't. Anyway, the Criterion edition is fantastic, a truly restored version of the film and soundtrack.

😎

@REGGIE JOHNSON let’s drink to something else… let’s drink to fucking yeah! say “here’s to your fuck Frank” God he was a fantastic actor

Hopper was adamant that he should be Frank because HE WAS Frank. It was like washed out actor burning himself as this depraved, child-like and innocently brutish thug and emerging as established and competent actor ready to tackle all new challenges.

@REGGIE JOHNSON Easy Rider was saved in editing room (Hopper himself said it) and The Last Movie became incoherent mess and it is. Last two are unknown to me so I can't say anything about them. He was much better as actor than director, though Easy Rider is damn fine movie.

@REGGIE JOHNSON Not familiar with all of those, but on that list there is only one undeniably genius director, Orson Welles. Others are competent and have their own styles, but generally do not push medium further with their movies. Gibson goes farthest in daring with his extra-brutal historical epics.

It’s my belief that Schiz. Saved his career. He needed to free himself from being a(waning) ‘art film’ director. After that he was able to restart both his, and Clooneys (nipple Batman) career by doing OUT OF SIGHT. An American Classic film.

I thought it was ok, but I still haven't read the book

I love Dune, loved it from the first time I seen it.

Loved the doc "Jodorowski's Dune," too bad that version never got made

I really appreciate how much more out there and punk it is, compared to the new one. Not just the performances, but some of the designs and effects are truly inspired weirdness. I usually stop before the second half though, not just because of the edit, but I think the story gets less interesting once it's in hero/battle mode. If Lynch's version got restored with modern effects and somehow spun off into a stranger variation of the plot, that would probably be amazing.

I liked Dune since I was a kid. I remember watching the "long" version on TV.

Love In the Company of Men! Shot in my hometown of Fort Wayne, IN. I wish LaBute was still making films of this calibre. Incredible debut.

Villeneuve's Dune is a gorgeous film but, to me at least, kind of wooden and soulless. Lynch's Dune certainly had issues but I consider it the better of the two. The casting was unbelievable, I loved the look of the film, the soundtrack, all of it. I get a lot of flak from my brother on this. He looks at me when I say I prefer Dune 84 as though I were mentally deficient in some deep and unfortunate way. Oh well, I'll stick to my guns. Dune 84, Blade Runner, Alien, 2001, 2010, and Outland put me firmly on track as a lifelong sci-fi fan. I remember when my parents rented Dune on VHS. It came with a bookmark with a glossary of Dune vocabulary called 'Terminology of the Imperium' Wish I still had it!

@@Malvenu418 Holy smokes, man. Are you my doppelganger?... Lol... I agree the current DUNE is extremely stunning.... HOWEVER, if I didn't already know the story and just watched this current Dune. I would be so lost. There was like no story to it. I'd be like "Ah, what just hapened? I really don't get it." Sensory overload is one thing. BUT STORY, man! Never compromise on the story and character development. The current Dune was excectuted so wrongly I believe. The Hans Zimmer score was too over the top. In every scene. Give me Toto and Brian Eno. Thumbs up, my friend.

@@ZexoZ8 I concur! All the exposition in the Lynch movie was truly necessary. That's also why the they included the Terminology sheet with VHS copies back in the day. They really wanted people unfamiliar with Herbert to understand what was going on.

Holy cow, here I've been thinking all these months that there was something wrong with me, but I've found others who agree. I've loved Lynch's Dune since seeing it multiple times in the theater as a 14-year old in 1984. I saw the new one and though I like the visuals and some of the performances, but agree with the wooden and soulless that Matthew Brooks mentions here. And that can't be Oscar Isaac's real facial hair. If that's really his hair then he's got an incredible talent to grow a beard that (to me, anyway) looks fake in almost every scene. Didn't hate it - I just prefer Lynch's Dune.

Agreed, I don't really feel a need to rewatch the newer version, but I could rewatch Lynch's Dune many times. It's funny, I'm in my early 30s and didn't even hear of Dune until my teens, but I just have a soft spot for the earnestness of 80s movies.

That line made me laugh so hard, but at the same time I don't know how I would've reacted in the same situation 😅

BS

I love the Dune books, Kyle and Lynch.....but I do understand people having a problem with that Dune movie....it just wasn't what it was supposed and should have been.

the david lynch dune has a lot of great qualities. excellent costumes and set design, fantastic casting, good acting in general. first half is solid in my mind. i like the addition of the bene gesserit interacting with the guild navigator. even sting was a good choice. but theres a lot that i think plays to its detriment, likely from studio pressure and lynch's waning interest in making/finishing a blockbuster. it plays into the hollywood stereotype of the heroe's journey that dune is all about subverting, they replace the weirding way entirely with those silly voice weapons, and made it even dumber by making it so the fremen had to scream "muad'dib" into the megaphone to attack which is dumb as hell. was really a mockery of the reasoning behind the war in the end of dune 1, and the removal of the weirding way cause a major plot hole about paul being born the messiah against his will. the pacing in the second half of the film is also really bad and the ending when it rains is kind of an insult to the idea of resource conservation behind the story. i really genuinely love a lot of things about the film but it is seriously flawed. i don't have a source on hand but apparently lynch's original cut was 4 hours or so and execs made him cut it to just over 2 hours, which make a lot of sense if you've seen the film

Anything with Peter Sellers is inspiring. As troubled as he was, he was a consummate artist. Same for me with anything with Sir Alec Guinness.

I find it a flawed masterpiece. One example is Janet Leigh's immediate fascination with Sinatra's character. I think Frankenheimer's masterpiece from his "Trilogy of anxiety in the nuclear age films" films is the overlooked "Seconds." And of course "Seven Days in May" is also excellent though the weakest of three.

Wise blood is one of my favorites.

I'll have to check out Le Cercle Rouge.

Very true, back when HBO still did some fine movies.

'Against the wall' was great ...I rented it from the 'video van' and got someone to copy it for me back in the 90's also rented Kyle's 'Roswell' movie from the same van. aside from this though....my introduction to Kyle Mac was the B-movie sci-fi /action 'the Hidden' ( which i love )

Always loved Lynch's Dune... If you have the vision, you can see what he was trying to achieve... Toto's score is beautiful...

It’s weird, it’s too obtuse for those who haven’t read the book and not faithful for those that have. Personally I love it for what it is, it’s such a weird, unique movie I can’t get enough of it. Lynch never really made it his own so disowns it but it’s a real special movie for me despite its flaws.

The production had a lot of issues so I imagine that sours the movie for him and Lynch more than the movie itself.

@@jekw23 He never got the chance to make it his own as the producers stopped financing it midway and refused him final cut. I think it would've been his magnum opus if everything had gone smoothly, it had such an amazing cast, crew and director. Even half finished with a historically cursed production it's still an amazing piece of cinema. Maybe for the best though; the fact that he quickly knocked Blue Velvet together within a couple of years just highlights his ridiculous talent and where his ambitions truly lie.

@@synchc agreed, he had to compromise from the start so even giving him all the footage to re-cut he’d still never be able to edit the film he wanted to make. I love what he did but can only wonder what we would have gotten if he’d had his way…that would really have been something to see.

stupid people want to be spoon fed everything

Diane, Im picking good movies

I love the echo on the voices!

It's an interesting failure imo

It’s better than it gets credit for. Flawed and rushed in the second act but not nearly as bad as people say it is.

I think probably a lot of it comes from David not having the final cut... they both can imagine how much better the film could have been.

@REGGIE JOHNSON It's great!

Try acid, Ray

I actually like this film, unironically.

One of Paul Verhoeven's 5 masterpieces

one of the greats Wrote my thesis on it and Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate as well

finally

@@gnalkhere can I read?