There are certain artists who are so visionary, so daring in their originality, whose work casts such a primal and enduring spell that it literally becomes hard to imagine the world without them.
“Eraserhead,” in New York ... in Los Angeles and never revealing how he created the diseased image of the monster baby (which prefigured the creature in “Alien”); who talked about going ...
It's hard to believe that David Lynch was in a six-year struggle to make Eraserhead on a piffling American Film Institute grant. It's harder still to believe that its closeted body horror and mind ...