Eraserhead (1977) Commentary/Unedited
Added 2025-06-30 12:30:52 +0000 UTCAnd I thought Twin Peaks was weird...
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When I click on the link it says the video is private? Can you please tell me the title of the video and I will search it on YouTube. I am very interested in watching! Thank you!
Ryan Doyle
2025-07-16 19:32:04 +0000 UTCI've just seen today a lovely youtube clip of David explaining why his films don't have to make sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtlrDGRCAb8
Donald Baillie
2025-07-08 19:23:07 +0000 UTCOh my goodness - there are short films!?! I better buckle up. Also - good eye recognizing Charlotte Stewart - I had no idea!!
Ryan Doyle
2025-07-07 15:46:58 +0000 UTCSooo that was a trip... Black Lodge floor check.. Really neat to see.. I read something about David Lynch painting it himself for Eraserhead... also.. I knew i recognized Charlotte Stewart aka Major Briggs wife..playing the girlfriend... I mean yes this was a weird flick but hey I have watched his shortfilms before like .. Six Men Getting Sick, The Alphabet, The Grandmother...so this was breeze lol.
Johanna Theresia
2025-07-04 19:37:50 +0000 UTC"well Henry, what do you know?" "Oh, I don't know much of anything," = me when I watch this movie! lol great analysis from someone who just watched the film. I love the cinematography of all those shots! we have so many little things here that appear in The Return, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks. (from this one and all the other work he did, it's all like themes used over and over again. like you said, electricity for example. but more than that.) the music sounds like it's in the movie itself and not a score for the movie. it's weird. The Pixies did a great cover of Lynch's Heaven song: https://youtu.be/HOltKqJIIdM?si=5w4pS_2p_QnX6AwZ this movie was part of the midnight movies in theaters when it came out, just like Pink Flamingos and others. people were ok/not ok with the movie. there is a good video of the raw reactions after the film: https://youtu.be/aFuAK0iH-fY?si=mVbtrLKIvaReKvB5 it begins with conception yes, than it goes to the problems associated with that pregnancy and to accentuate it all, for me, the only way to do this is to exaggerate every "little thing" to make it all look like "big things" so we can get these feelings of what those "little things" should/could feel like! and then those "little things" accumulate towards the big ending. so I think he killed his baby and himself as he was out of solutions basically trapped in his room. but was it all in his mind from a certain split in the movie's timeline? maybe this didn't happen but what are his options really? to give up the baby? maybe then he felt like it would kill him and the baby to do so? like Roy in Close Encounters would say: "Help! I'm lost!" 😆it is the most spiritual movie David did. but he never elaborated on it: https://youtu.be/3rhzfxtqwZM?si=0qUUHaJ3_7l3G8ha after looking at a quote from the bible he thought "yup. that's it!" (maybe not those exact words but that's what I remember) Mary was played by Charlotte Stewart or Major Briggs's wife. Catherine Coulson (The Log Lady) helped on the set and on many other aspects of the movie as assistant director. Sissy Spacek helped to produce the movie and her husband Jack Fisc his the man with the levers. ok. my elevator floor is here. got to go! awesome to see you react to this! keep having fun!
P.M.Télé
2025-07-01 08:39:51 +0000 UTCI was lucky enough to start with Eraserhead on my Lynch journey, and I think it really informs the rest of his work (especially his work that appears more straight forward).
Jimmie V
2025-06-30 22:10:14 +0000 UTC
