Still trying to get the taste of “Inland Empire” out of your brain (a film both called brilliant and atrocious round these parts)?
Never fear, David Lynch is working on a new movie! However, there’s actually no need to get too excited about this one unless you’re all, you know, spiritual and shit.
The coffee shilling, Twitter-weather report giving director is headed to India to film a documentary about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation.
While Lynch says he will avoid the typical “talking head” style doc, he also says he’s going to be doing lots of interviews so we’re not sure what kind of structure he’s looking at here.
If you’re wondering about “Snootworld,” a children’s film he has in development, it’s still on the backburner but we hope he gets to it soon. A Lynch film for kids would probably be an amazing mindfuck. As for any other projects he has, possibly listed on the always reliable IMDB? Lynch says, “most of it is lies.”
Wondering who Lynch considers a good filmmaker? He gives shout outs to Werner Herzog (who directed his produced, “My Son My Son What Have Ye Done” film), Marty Scorsese, “some” Paul Thomas Anderson and underrated Finnish director of the black comedy mien, Aki Kaurismäki (and Criterion lauded in a recent Eclipse series that you should get).