The remaining discs contained the ‘Eraserhead’ soundtrack CD, some new featurettes for ‘The Elephant Man’, Lynch’s 1990 concert film ‘Industrial Symphony No. Those latter movies were the official studio DVDs, simply inserted into the box set. I guess that Lynch just liked the color lime green that day.įor this ‘Lime Green Set’, Lynch consolidated DVDs that he had previously sold separately (‘Eraserhead’, ‘The Short Films of David Lynch’ and the animated series ‘DumbLand’), along with some studio discs that he was able to license (‘The Elephant Man’ from Paramount, ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Wild at Heart’ from MGM). Before you ask, no, other than the color of the box it came in, no particular explanation was ever provided for that name. The most ambitious product offered was a ten-disc DVD collection called ‘The Lime Green Set’. Among the products sold were DVD editions of ‘Eraserhead’ and his short films. He established an online store on his personal web site where he attempted to self-distribute content through his Absurda label. In 2008, Lynch actually released that extra footage, but did so on an obscure and expensive DVD that few have seen.Īfter a series of bad experiences that soured him on working with the Hollywood studio system again, Lynch retreated to the internet in the mid-2000s.
He eventually trimmed that down to 125 disjointed minutes, but fans wondered for years what the longer version of the movie may have looked like. Despite working from short novella that could be read from start to finish in a couple of hours, the director greatly expanded his script and shot enough material that his first rough cut ran over three hours long.
For his 1990 film ‘Wild at Heart’, Lynch took the opposite approach. Typically, when a filmmaker adapts a book to the screen, he or she must condense the text into a manageable length by removing inessential scenes or storylines. David Lynch has never been accused of doing anything in a conventional manner.
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