The Governors Awards (Honorary Oscars) will be held on October 27th, 2019 with director Lina Wertmüller, actress Geena Davis, director David Lynch, and actor Wes Studi celebrated. We'll be discussing each of them.
by Eric Blume
The decision to give David Lynch an honorary Oscar this year is among the Academy’s smartest and most inspired choices. Lynch’s movies are so singular, so not-conceived for commercial consumption, that he was never likely to gain enough popular majority to actually win as Best Director. But he has garnered three nominations over the years: 1980’s The Elephant Man, 1986’s Blue Velvet, and 2001’s Mulholland Dr. Each of these films contains stunning and memorable images, a feverish sensibility, a subversively compassionate worldview, and a mastery of storytelling... even when the story feels incomprehensible.
Mulholland Dr truly merits the term overused word "masterpiece". Lynch is in complete control and it’s a film that could only have sprung from his mind and heart. While we’ve seen many versions of the American Dream story, none has ever emphasized the “dream” portion of that term in the way that this film does...
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