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On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)

ADAM GOLASKI is the author of Color Plates. His work has appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Best Horror of the Year, The Lifted Brow, and LVNG no. 11.

David Cronenberg’s The Brood(’79) and Scanners(’80) saw the director beyond the low-rent look of Shivers(’75) and Rabid(’77) and the avant-garde of his student films Stereo(’69) and Crimes of the Future(’70); and though his preoccupation with body horror is very present, it wouldn’t be firmly established until Videodrome in 1982. It’s not my thing.’” Lynch added, in an interview with Chris Rodley, “And, obviously, Star Wars was totally George’s thing,” and then, after considering Thomas Harris’s The Red Dragon(ultimately directed by Michael Mann as Manhunter[‘86]), he was offered Dune. Janet Maslin dismissed Jagged Edge for its “crashing melodrama”; Paul Attenasio damns it as a “director’s exercise.” (There’s a child in the film—I can’t remember whose child—none of the characters are responsible enough to raise children—but I amused myself examining his bedroom: a futuristic truck on his shelf [I spent too much time trying to identify it; it resembles the titular vehicle from the television show Ark II(’76)—perhaps it’s a model from Jedi?]

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