David Lynch's 10 Favorite Films

David Lynch gave us another season of Twin Peaks in 2017. Here are 10 of his favorite films you can watch after you get through all the episodes, besides scratching your head trying to figure it all out, and googling for a possible announcement of season 4.

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[davevigliotto]

Hour of the Wolf by Ingmar Bergman I've heard him mention a few times too.

[brycesterling]

100% can see why lynch loves rear window. Makes sense

[gorgonfeeman]

seen all of them except for It's a gift and Strozek. 8 1/2 is amazing and I can totally see how M. Hulot's Holiday inspiried Lynches style of humor

[federicoTM]

Nobody can miss the movie of Herzog ...and rhe two of Fellini !!!

[RisyaAyu]

His picks while really great, but also pretty mainstream hahaha. I was expecting weird underrated films.

[IlluminatiLand]

Interesting, only one Kubrick film on his list, but it was a good one...

[eargasm]

Not surprising he lists a Werner Herzog film as one of his faves...I always felt that Herzog's "Kaspar Hauser" influenced "Elephant Man". The theme of someone living as some animal and outcast being re-integrated into uppity society, the close-up of a mother's face at the beginning etc

[alexalex]

Three of these are in my top ten: The Wizard Of Oz #8 (Best children's film ever made) Sunset Blvd. #3 and The Apartment #2. I don't believe it's possible to judge foreign language films unless you are fluent in the language.

[HansBerger-md]

Stroszek is an interesting pick. Everything else, just classics....

[MrOkgrillo]

"Rosaura a las diez" by Mario Soffici could have been in his most certainly Ingmar Bergman's "Persona"

[dizzyhole]

out of all of Kubricks films he picks Lolita... strange pick

[trajan]

All great films. My list would have include a couple of Westerns

[Azelkiel]

I watched Lolita and Oz, and i heard but not watched Rear Window and Sunset boulevard.

[willieluncheonette]

It's a Gift stands out like a sore thumb on this list. Quite surprising.

[geraldojorgedalmaschio]

Why The Wizard of Oz not surprised me?

[actinius]

Mulholland Drive is better than any on his list. But that only makes sense.

[morningcoffeecat]

Only seen The Wizard of Oz and Rear Window

[stijnvanoers]

need that Davis Lych spoken word with this one... sorry...

[mrdirachiel]

Pretty surprised not to see a Kubrick or Polanski film in this list. Or even a Jarmusch. I'd have bet on 'The Tenant', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Chinatown', 'The Shining', 'Eyes Wide Shut', 'Down By Law', 'Coffee & Cigarettes'...but maybe they're too obvious examples or maybe DL chose films that had very personal associations. Ha ha, it would have been amusing too if he'd cited a couple of his own movies. They definitely deserve to be!

[johnkrieger]

I've always thought "The Apartment" was slop. Also don't like "Stroszek". The others, yes.