(beep)
(soft music)
(wind blowing)
- There are very few
films that I can think of
that so quickly, out of
the gate, established
beyond any doubt that you are entering a
completely distinctive,
unusual vision of a world
where worlds, in the case of Eraserhead.
- I'm a printer.
- Henry's really clever at printing.
- Even when you are in the absence
of any kind of logical
nerd of explanation.
That's where I think
Eraserhead marked the arrival
of a truly significant filmmaker.
David Lynch, and I think he's proved it
over the decades, is the real article
in terms of being an
absolute original film artist
and that was apparent to me
from the first five minutes of Eraserhead.
This is a film that
Lynch took years to make.
He got a huge grant from
the American Film Institute,
almost at a point in his
career when he was ready
to kind of give up on
the idea of making films
and stick to painting when
this grant came through,
but what it also meant was
that he could make Eraserhead completely
on his own terms and it would be years
before he would again
enjoy that kind of freedom.
- Will you come back tomorrow?
- All I need is a decent night's sleep!
- First of all, we have
to get over the question
of what's going on?
Because what's going on, on a
literal level, doesn't matter.
What's going on in terms of atmosphere?
What's going on in terms of the suggestion
of entering a realm that
is completely governed
by its own kind of laws and logic?
In other words, it is like walking
into someone else's dream reality,
so you have to kind of accept
that you can't influence that reality.
You can't change it and you don't have
to completely understand it in order
to be affected by its power.
- [Narrator] What do you
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