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Ruth Roses And Revolver
Nadja 1996 – hurry the dead travel fast –
Written and Directed by Michael Almereyda
Cinematography by Jim Denault Starring Elina Lowensohn (Nadja), Peter Fonda (Prof. Van Helsing), Martin Donovan (Jim), David Lynch (Morgue attendant), Suzy Amis (Cassandra), Galaxy Craze (Lucy) et al.
This black-and-white fantasy follows the escapades of Dracula's daughter Nadja, who's living a bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. Dr. Van Helsing, the famous vampire hunter, has just put an end to the Count's nocturnal activities. So Nadja and her ailing twin brother Edgar are left to carry on an unwanted family tradition. But she's beginning to feel existential angst over her vampiric legacy, as she sleeps all day and stays out all night roaming the bars in search of love. Meanwhile Edgar's being looked after by a nurse who's well acquainted with the Van Helsing clan – who are painstakingly closing in on Nadja's bloodthirsty trail. Shot using a combination of DuArt black-and-white 35mm and a Pixelvision toy video camera. A Kino Link production. Shown at the Toronto Film Festival in 1994. Score composer Simon Fisher Turner also composed the soundtracks for six of Derek Jarman's films. Additional credits: Portishead (song composers/performers), Stewart Levy (sound design), and Ed Talavera (second unit camera).
Crumb 1995 David Lynch Presents can be read in the main titles and that's basically all that Lynch had to do with this excellent documentary by Terry Zwigoff on the comic artist Robert Crumb who is best known as the creator of "Fritz the Cat" and "Keep on Truckin'...".
Co-produced by David Lynch and Superior Pictures Production. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted it Best Documentary of 1995. The film was a 1995 runner-up for the best picture prize by the National Society of Film Critics. Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.
American Chronicles 1990-91 Executive Producer Mark Frost, David LynchProduced by Lynch-Frost Productions/Propaganda Films/Fox-TV
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon A Time 1992 Directed by Robert HeathWritten by Gary H. Grossman, Michael Gross, Robert Heath Executive Producer Mark Frost Produced by Lynch-Frost Productions
Ruth Roses And Revolver 1987 Directed by Helen GallagherWritten by David Lynch Presented by David Lynch
Lynch made this documentation (named after a film by Man Ray) on Surrealism for the British BBC television program Arena. In each program he presents extracts from what he considers films and filmmakers most significant to his own work.
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Nadja and her twin brother – both vampires living in contemporary Manhattan – have a parting
of the ways as Nadja revels in her inherent evil. Her brother teams up with Dr. Van Helsing to
destroy her in this stylish erotic thriller executive produced by David Lynch.
This disturbing documentary traces the lives of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his
extraordinarily dysfunctional family. As children, the three Crumb brothers escaped from their
abusive home by indulging in an imaginative life centered on comic books, but Robert is the
only one who has fashioned any sort of normal existence. Now a famous cartoonist, he creates
work that revels in the darker side of the human condition, hilarious and often offensive work
that is obviously influenced by his troubled upbringing.