In case you didn’t know, director David Lynch was tapped as this year’s Guest Artistic Director at AFI Fest. Part of his duties: to choose a special sidebar program at the festival. Here’s the news, from the press release:
AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi announced today the five feature films selected by its first-ever Guest Artistic Director, David Lynch, for his special sidebar program at the festival. As part of the program, the festival will screen Lynch’s first feature film, ERASERHEAD, which was made while Lynch was a Fellow at AFI’s Center For Advanced Film Studies, now known as the AFI Conservatory. Lynch graduated from AFI in 1970.
Lynch’s selections are: HOUR OF THE WOLF (DIR Ingmar Bergman), LOLITA (DIR Stanley Kubrick), MON ONCLE (DIR Jacques Tati), REAR WINDOW (DIR Alfred Hitchcock) and SUNSET BLVD (DIR Billy Wilder).
“I picked these particular films because they are the ones that have inspired me most. I think each is a masterpiece,” said Lynch. “If people have already seen them, they are certainly worth being seen again. And if people haven’t seen them, here is an opportunity to see what I consider cinema at its best.”
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5 responses to “Lynch picks Bergman, Kubrick, Tati, Hitchcock and Wilder for AFI Fest sidebar”
What a shame, such established canon classics. I wish he would bring attention to some of the lesser known gems from some of the lesser known directors.
Can’t argue with those choices…
So happy that he chose ‘Hour of the Wolf’. One of Bergman’s best, and shamefully overlooked in his oeuvre.
red_wine: It’s Lynch’s pics and his alone. So what if they are staples? He chose ’em and that’s good enough for me.
He has fantastic taste.