![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() movie palace now known as the Theatre at Ace Hotel, certainly elicited beguiled reactions. “The Music of David Lynch,” a brilliant survey of the master’s tuneful treasures staged (and taped) at the suitably gothic downtown L.A. “It’s so remarkable that these pieces of music can trigger such intense reactions,” remarked electronica maven Moby two-thirds into Wednesday night’s spellbinding celebration of such indelible visions. Yet so many moments Lynch has conjured across four decades of filmmaking have become iconic: the mutton-chopped Lady in the Radiator singing “In Heaven” at the end of the 1977 cult classic “Eraserhead” Dean Stockwell lip-synching Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” while Dennis Hopper glares menacingly in one of the more nerve-wracking scenes from “Blue Velvet” the use of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” amid the hell-bound ride that is “Wild at Heart” the ravishing sight of Rebekah Del Rio in “Mulholland Drive,” transforming another dramatic Orbison gem, “Crying,” into the grippingly a cappella “Llorando.” His peculiar conflagrations of sound and vision can get jumbled into a wider appreciation of the enigmatic director’s unsettling dreamscapes. Any true fan of David Lynch’s hypnotically strange films is also passionate about the music in those movies, for it has been just as idiosyncratically compelling as the cinematic riddles he has created. ![]()
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