The Weird Connection Between David Lynch and 'The Wizard of Oz'

'Lynch/Oz,' the free-form look at the connection between David Lynch and 'The Wizard of Oz,' is a film-studies masterclass

. He’d prefer the work speak for itself, thank you very much. But in bending over backwards to avoid discussing what something might “mean,” or deflecting questions with humor and/or cryptic pronunciations, thefilmmaker occasionally drops a breadcrumb hint about what makes him creatively tick.

Divided into six chapters — with voiceover duties divvied up between seven different narrators — this hybrid doc/portrait of an artist as a superfan takes for granted that America’s greatest weird-as-fuck filmmaker was inspired by the 1939 kids’ flick. You can see it in obvious ways, like the direct, and in more roundabout ways, like the constant recurring motifs of ruby-red shoes, curtains, and head wounds.

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