Lots of films are similar to each other in one way or another. I just saw a short film as my job as a film screener for a local film festival that made a connection between APOCOLYPSE (sp) NOW AND WIZARD OF OZ. And? There are lots of connections between one film and another if we sat around and thought about it. But that doesn't make one film a remake of another or even an influence. Okay, sometimes you may want to see how Lynch or Goddard did something but lots of artists in various mediums look to the masters for guidence. Doesn't make them copys of one another.

I don't think DL remakes films. DL films are a world and subject unto themselves. The only time I heard of DL being influenced by something beside WoO is that TP was inspired by LAURA a 40's film noir with Dana Andres and Jean Tiernney. I would be more interested in film makers who use DL as an inspiration. Other than the influence of TP on TV that is.

Wow!

The second picture is identical to the scene in MD where Rita is trying on her new wig!

Interesting!

Richard Altman's 3 Women has a good deal in common with Persona and Mullholland Drive.

All Bunuel is worth checking out, but Belle du Jour is particularly Lynch-esque in its combination of kinky sex and B-movie conventions.

I second Kiss Me Deadly that's maybe the best film noir film.

Has anybody else tried to watch the DVD of Persona and the last chapter doesn't play? I found this extremely frustrating.

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

They do?
Truly speaking I cannot see any link between Straight Story and Madison County except that I liked them both ;-)

So what I can see is definitely the way Wild at Heart influenced a lot of the postmodern cinema of the 90s, Tarantino to start with. IMO Lynch went further than those who were inspired by him, Lynch never just played bizarres for bizarre's sake, there was always some meaning to his films, a vision of the world... but the influence is clear.

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The was a one-liner or something that made me think there was a connection..  Of course  I could have been looking a bit too far as one often does.

For the life of me, I just wish I could remember what it was!
 

I wouldn't mind watching that film again! :-)

It left me with a very uncanny feeling, if I may use this Lynchian word here...

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RobertSmith, it's Robert Altman not Richard. As a matter of fact, they use to call him Bob Altman to make it shorter!

Bob, I think The Straight Story About Schmidt and Bridges of Madison County have in common the rural and off-center setting, filled with characters that are definitely curious and strange. Anyway, the most striking coincidence between these three movies is the will of the main characters to travel as they actually are imprisoned in a universe that's just too narrow for them.

Alvin's been in the war but he wants to travel again and he's a totally different person from the ones that he meets, he's just a world apart, he's serene though...

 While Warren Schmidt is forced to travel and has to confront different realities without the capability to make them strangers in his life, but it's another absurd journey that an elderly man takes on not knowing what will happen next.

 Meryl Streep's character in Madison County is just the same thing, she wants to express her openness (she's been a teacher) through this ephemeral love story, but her family condition forces her to say no to this new man that has come in her life suddenly, and she's coming from far away (Italy) and at the time she ventured in this she absolutely didn't know what to expect. There is a mental journey that she makes with Eastwood's character by the way, 'cause he's one who travels a lot and has many stories (some boring) to tell her. The film takes place in Iowa, the same place from where Alvin starts his adventure.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

Oh and I see another similarity - both are totally overrated :-)
Some people list them as the directors' best works, however in my personal book Rosemary's Baby would linger somewhere about the back of top ten (but still I haven't seen quite a few things), Mulholland is somewhere over Dune and nothing but the Dune.

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I am working on seeing more by Polanski, but this one blew me away.

 Mulholland Drive I would personally consider better than BV but not as good as FWWM, LH or Eraserhead.

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I can't really tell if this thread is for movies which may have been influenced by Lynch, or movies that may have influenced HIM. Seems a lot of people aren't really sure either - so I guess it's for both!

With that in mind, I saw an early Capra flick, Forbidden, at the London film festival. It's about a girl who decides to quit her job and enjoy life more - she ends up falling for a married man while on a cruise, and they have an affair which lasts the rest of their lives. I would be very, very surprised if Lynch said he hadn't seen this film. It's kind of hard for me to put my finger on exactly why I felt this way, but there is one scene where the two leads talk to one another while wearing masks like the one we see in the convenience store scene, and there's another moment when Barbara Stanwyk faces the camera with blood coming out of her mouth as somebody bangs on her door from outside - I found it very reminiscent of Mulholland Drive

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Found a couple of stills from Forbidden which I think (I hope) will support my theory that David must have seen this movie:

It's worth noting that Forbidden is all about an adulterous relationship...

Le Samouraï reminds me alot of Lynch....the style of the shots, how they are static frames, with little movement, and just the whole feel of the movie......great movie for anyone who likes French New Wave or a good hitman movie....