Lynch's new long-form commercial (it hardly seems like one) for Dior, "Lady Blue Shanghai", is here:

http://fashionista.com/2010/05/exclusive-david-lynchs-lady-blue-shanghai-with-marion-cotillard-chapter-3-in-the-lady-dior-saga/

It stars Marion Cotillard as yet another "woman in trouble" and features a number of Lynchian tropes, including red curtains, a scratchy phonograph, and...something inside a Dior purse. I won't spoil the surprise. Is Lynch running out of ideas, holding back his new ones for his next feature, or merely winking at his fans? Whatever, as an atmospheric short film, this may work -- though I'm not sure it would make anyone want to buy a purse.

It made me want to buy a smoke machine. Et voila, instant mystery! 

I liked it and the blue rose was a nice touch (for the Lynch faithful). 

Is DL preoccupid?

I watched it MOS, but if it doesn't have that lush, tasty Lynch look, it could be any web short that actors are beefing up their resumes with, and I am too easily distracted. It's as if DL had one of those script writing computer programs, only it's full of his own stock props. Add this or that here or there, and voila- instant mystery.

I suspect when these fashion houses enlist DL to make them an advert they're buying the associations (and therefore credibility) that comes with him as much as the finished product. Otherwise they'd say "But Mr Lynch, you've ignored our product and made our brand look sinister. Please start from scratch". 

I really liked his Gucci 'Heart of Glass' promo but the subsequent 'I Feel Love' advert directed by Chris Cunningham (another of my heroes) was astonishing.  

I often feel the same as 12rainbow and wonder whether DL is preoccupied. Maybe his interest in hawking high fashion is waning. It seems so at odds with all the things that interest him - like dentistry, spark plugs and bare ladies.  

also, its good money

Wow, I pretty much paraphrased you, FITL, without even reading your first post! That is funny.

I am going to watch it again for substance, since we've seen the style already. *sigh* And by style, I mean we've seen this outfit before...

EDIT: Ok, ok, I am liking it this time around. I think you have to be in a kind of zone to like it, though. I am stoned on Valerian tea.

I think I cried "Why, that no good broad stole one of my best lines!"  

Do you think this Lynch business is making us cynical? I'm glad you liked the advert more the second time round. You're one of the people who keeps me sane when I visit the TPG board and everybody seems to hate everything (regardless of whether they've seen/heard/read it or not). 

I can admit that Lynch's career has reached it's apex, and although the date is debatable, there is a whole school devoted to standing at Lynch's heels with whips, barking at him to "do better!" be more like your early work, be less like your last work. They are relentless. I like that he's keeping on doing stuff, anyway. I just hope he's having fun and keeping old age away

double double post. sorry.

thank you booth!along with a few other gazetteers(i wont name who, you know who you are), your response is much more helpful and intelligent to discuss and understand. i liked the bucky thing, it was a short little burst of humor in an otherwise pretty heavy film. and it gave me an extra chuckle because i knew it was lynch. i think other fans in the know about bucky enjoyed it. at least the people on the dugpa board and the few personal friends i have that are fans of lynch already did as well. but then again, i have friends who are like you and 12, they think lynch is past his prime. and thanks again for not hating on the DV or the narrative. i think that criticism is lazy and a copout. at least you have a solidified reason for your aversion. and strangely enough, what you say about too much story, or that it was everywhere was one of the things i like about it(altho it can be argued that lynch has just as many abstraction in IE as in his other films), and the story hooked me. i doubt theres anyone in the world who has the same interpetation of the film as another person. for good or bad, this seems to be the way lynch is headed. and to boil it down, you see this as a decline, and i see this as progress. C'est la vie.