The Grandmother

This movie about a boy growing a grandma is too long. The person handing out these grants to filmmakers either doesn’t watch anything that is submitted and picks at random or is a crazy person. You put the Flying Circus theme over these animations and they’d be a hoot.

My personal favorite of Lynch's shorts. It's creepy, got some cool effects, and has that unrefined energy of a talented director still learning the ropes and feeling out his cinematic niche.

I am choosing to believe this is the prologue to Pierre and Mrs. Tremond in Twin Peaks. And yes, I had to look up both of their names. Thanks to the Twin Peaks Wiki chronicling biographies of every character which seems to so extensive that it is actually fake.

This movie was surreal. I would say my favorite elements of this movie was the use of shadow and color. The boy seems happiest in the shadow and in black and white. When the color orange appears in the film his life gets really bad, from bed wetting to abuse from his mother and father, the color orange is very prevalent in this. The boy uses magic seeds to plant a large potato like capsule that in essence gives birth to his grandmother, his only friend in the film. Sounds are top notch.

I knew where babies came from, but had always been a little curious as to where grandmothers came from. Thanks David!

Way too long

The first Lynch short film where his cinematic ideas are really able to be seen. The sound design in particular is pretty vintage Lynch. It's still in its infancy of course but the bare bones are there. It drags a bit which is a shame since it's only about 30 minutes long.

Apesar de sua linguagem cinematografica rebuscada, o que mais salta aos olhos na filmografia de Lynch desde os primórdios é a alta injeção de sentimentalidade em seus filmes.

Primitive and slightly too long, but captivating, especially for its sound design which is of low-budget fidelity, but just as eerie, evocative, and important as in Lynch's later films.

Pretty interesting, both intrinsically and as a document of Lynch's burgeoning insane, cinematic vision.

The Grandmother is very interesting as a milestone in Lynch's development of sound and art design, but as a watchable film, it really struggles. The animation bits are really beautiful though, and I wish he did way more work in that medium.

I see the seeds of Eraserhead being planted here. Lots of odd images that somehow spark an emotional resonance. By the end I was definitely moved even though I didn't know exactly what I had seen. I like Lynch's use of all different styles of shooting and his use of bizarre music and sound effects. It all comes together to form the kind of peculiar world that only Lynch can create.

A wonderfully creative early masterpiece from Lynch.

Very good, but I feel if he'd ended it at the part when the kid imagines (?) killing his parents, then smiling at his grandmother it would have been more effective. Everything after that makes it feel too long.

Odd & Beautiful.

The clearest evidence prior to ERASERHEAD that David Lynch possesses a singular ability to masterfully manipulate sound and image in order to concoct a world of mystery and nightmare.

Even early on, Lynch was a creepy dude. Thumbs up though.

Some pretty creepy shit here, but I adore the dense-void style. Bed-wetting has never been this shameful before.

Rich and strange. You can totally see visual motifs and themes that continue to develop in Lynch's later work -- the "Monty Python in Hell" aesthetic in _Eraserhead_, and, more generally, Lynch's embrace of the darkness in everyday life

Overlong, but distinctly "Lynchian." Well worth a look.

Weird. Very typical Lynch movie. It was quite good. Matt! Matt!

So now I know how Lynch grew up. As if I had any doubts.

Too experimental. Even stanger than Lynch's later work.

It's Eraserhead Jr, bizarre and creepy, but nothing so disturbing or haunting.

The line of reality and imagination is merged again through the twisted mind of David Lynch, this time, in a young boy's perspective. A lot of what I love about Lynch is established here even if it could probably have worked better at half the length.

quite disturbing short

#839 - 02 Eylul 08, 03:53 & guclu, urkutucu bir lynch kisasi. Sanirim Lynch'in diger kisa filmleri arasinda en guclusu, en rahatsiz edici ve de en basarilisi bu.

Already strong Lych stuff. I like all of the characters in this weird story.

Expectedly weird, but not as visual as I expected and would've liked. Also for some reason fails at delivering as strong mood as Lynch usually does.

Really weird, just what I expected.