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- adjective Of or pertaining to David Keith Lynch (born 1946), American filmmaker and director whose
surrealist films are characterized bydream imagery and meticuloussound design.
Etymologies
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The late writer David Foster Wallace defined the word "Lynchian" as referring to "a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Craig McLean 2011
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In a concrete cube dug into the side of a sheer slope in the Hollywood hills, not far from Mulholland Drive, a conversation is taking place that can only be described as "Lynchian".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Craig McLean 2011
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It's too easy to describe anything that's kinda creepy as being "Lynchian," but I can't think of a more apt term for this old Scopitone video that Spike Priggen of Bedazzled sent me.
Boing Boing 2009
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Between this and Parents (1989), which also starred Randy Quaid, I had a lot of love for "Lynchian" films before I had ever even seen David Lynch film.
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There are also smatterings of live drums, even field recordings of ceremonial voodoo drums from New Orleans on the notably 'Lynchian' 'Balancing On A Bouncing
The Music Fix 2010
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(One "Lynchian" moment I remember was when David realized there was a cockroach on his toothbrush while he was brushing his teeth.)
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"Lynchian" was the high praise adjective the jury gave to the animated winner, Veljko Popovic's "She Who Measures."
indieWIRE News 2009
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"Lynchian" was the high praise adjective the jury gave to the animated winner, Veljko Popovic's "She Who Measures."
indieWIRE News 2009
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As has been cited more than a few times, Calvi is certainly influenced by Lynchian motifs, but there's infinitely more to her, which is best discovered live.
Michael Vazquez: Anna Calvi, Live in NYC (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2011
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Also, the dramatic and suspenseful orchestral swell as they were first nearing the gate, and then actually going through the gate, was to me pretty silly … as if Scorsese was trying out some Lynchian technique and just failing miserably.
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