David Lynch has famously been using his time during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown to release a steady drip feed of YouTube videos.
One such one was a recent 40-minute video in which he answers fan questions including one that asked him which of his projects he is most proud of. Lynch played it safe, but at the same time brings up his most famous commercial failure.
Lynch says: “I’m proud of everything except ‘Dune’. I’ve liked so much working on different movies. It’s not so much about pride but the enjoyment of doing, the enjoyment of the work. I’ve enjoyed working in all these different mediums. I feel really lucky to have been able to enjoy those things and to be able to live.”
Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” is a textbook noble failure, an attempt to squeeze the famed novel into a single feature runtime narrative with a major budget. Lynch disavowed the film before release, having his name taken off the finished product, and recently he said the “heartache” of making the film four decades ago has led to him having “zero interest” in Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming new adaptation.
Aside from some shorts, Lynch last helmed the entire eighteen-episode run of “Twin Peaks: The Return” on Showtime in 2017 – the run of episodes drawing some of the best reviews of his career and adding to the debate of the increasingly blurry line between film and television in the modern day.
Source: David Lynch Q&A
