Things go kerflooey
Ruby Hamilton: David Lynch’s Gee-Wizardry, 11 September 2025
David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema
by Mike Miley.
Bloomsbury, 272 pp., £21.99, January,979 8 7651 0289 3 Show More
by Mike Miley.
Bloomsbury, 272 pp., £21.99, January,
“... film within the film. It’s presided over by a figure called Mr Roque (Michael J. Anderson), whom Tom McCarthy describes in his essay on Lynch’s ‘Prosthetic Imagination’ as ‘almost pure prosthesis, his already tiny, crippled body dwarfed yet further by the spacious, hi-tech chamber from which … he calls the shots’. The film seems to be goading us ... ”