Patti Smith and David Lynch speak candidly about their work
"The discussion was recorded for BBC Newsnight's 'Encounters' series, with topics ranging from the influence of Bobby Vinton's 1963 hit 'Blue Velvet' on Lynch's film of the same name, seeing Jerry Garcia's ghost, liking to ''bite' paintings, as well as 'Twin Peaks', which Smith says 'reconnected [her] to the world and art'."
(Luke Morgan Britton, 20 November 2014, NME)
[Patti Smith and David Lynch have a brief conversation at the Fondation Cartier in Paris where they discuss each other's work and their mutual respect for each other. BBC2 Newsnight Encounters, 13 November 2014.
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Blue Velvet: the dark underside of America's collective fantasies
"Blue Velvet begins with the lily–white small town of America's collective fantasies and shows us its dark underside: drugs, violence, sex, and particularly sexual perversion. Our hero, Jeffrey, hiding in the dark, peers through the slats of Dorothy Vallens' closet at Dorothy getting undressed and Frank's strange sadomasochistic sex with her. Jeffrey stands for all of us American filmgoers peering (voyeuristically!) at Evil in traditional American films. Lynch clues us as to how we should read his film when he shows us a cluster of ants under the Beaumonts' pretty lawn. This is Tennyson's nature red in tooth and claw–the underside of cutesy Lumberton with its free enterprise propensity for cutting down trees."
(Norman N. Holland)
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Lana Del Rey covers 'Blue Velvet' for H&M ad
"Lana Del Rey has recorded a cover of the classic track 'Blue Velvet' for a commercial for clothing company H&M"
(NME.COM)
Fig.1, 2 Directed by Johan Renck for H&M
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