The indie-filmmaking spree that fueled festivals like Sundance wouldn’t have been popular without films like his own Blue Velvet and Eraserhead inspiring many young up-and-coming filmmakers. Between the internet taking its first baby steps into maturity and the disco fad of the 70s and 80s slowly fading back into the back recesses of the cultural consciousness, 1990 was also defined by two huge shifts in pop-culture: The wave of experimental indie-filmmaking sparked by the likes Richard Linklater and Quentin Tarantino, and the even newer waves of radical television shows that were changing the entire medium of television as a whole.ĭavid Lynch happened to be a pioneer of both of these exciting shifts in popular culture. There were many things that really defined that strange, pubescent decade. This time, we delve into the strange world of David Lynch’s mind, attempting to make sense of things along the way.Īh, 1990. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the filmmaker in question, the central themes that connect his/her works, and what they each represent within the larger context of his/her career. The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work–be it director’s, screenwriter’s, or otherwise–and analyzes each portion of the filmography.

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