Rabbits (David Lynch, 2002)

8/10
Back in 2002 David Lynch released a series of eight 5-7 minute shorts on his website, each one seemingly an episode of a surreal "sitcom" titled Rabbits. Unused clips were later featured in his film Inland Empire, to beguiling effect. Your mileage and patience for these shorts probably depends on your tolerance for Lynch at his most overtly bizarre - the characters (three humanoid rabbits) speak in non-sequiturs, but recurring words and themes suggest the lines might be pieced together to form actual conversations. I thought it was fun and creepy, although anyone looking for a deeper significance may only come away annoyed. They're up on Youtube for now (with Spanish subtitles but no matter) if anyone's interested.

Lady Blue Shanghai (David Lynch, 2010)

6.5/10
Another freebie MUBI turned me on to (via Youtube in two parts, part one is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmisZlnyRM), David Lynch's 16-minute Dior-commissioned piece Lady Blue Shanghai. There isn't really much to it, and it's clearly more a piece of advertising than anything else (though clearly advertising done by Lynch and no one else), it has simple themes that might be a little hacky if they weren't such an identifiable part of Lynch's aesthetic. Not a revelation but a nice enough distraction, and the music is the highlight.

Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)

6/10
Not one of the better Lynch movies, not one of the worst, it just kind of plods along with only momentary piques of interest. Listening to Nicholas Cage doing a forced Elvis impression for 2.5 hours can grate on anyone though. As always with Lynch there are some disturbing/unforgettable visuals but the movie as a whole doesn't work nearly as well as his later ones.

Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)

8/10
I was really not expecting to like this, but I did. I was never bored for its 3 hour runtime (impressive considering the way the plot seems to come and go) which is the main thing...I can't even act like I know what half of it meant but then, I don't think Lynch or any of the actors do either, so I won't be too hard on myself. Laura Dern was exceptional though and I was genuinely freaked out at parts.
Elephant Man is still my favorite Lynch movie but I'd have to think this is his magnum opus (in terms of "Lynchian" films, which Elephant Man really isn't) and I have no idea how he's going to top it.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)

5/10
I finished watching the series, and watched the prequel film last night...and it was pretty disappointing. The series was on a steep decline after Laura's killer is revealed, then Lynch steps back in and rescues it with the great series finale, and then does...something...with the film, I'm not entirely sure what he was going for. I "got" (I think) and liked the resolution with Cooper's character in the Black Lodge with Laura but I guess I was hoping more questions would be answered and that it would be more closely related to the series...instead it created more plotholes and more questions. But that's Lynch for you.
The DVD box was also pretty misleading, giving the impression that Kyle MacLachlan, Chris Isaak and David Bowie were starring in this movie when their roles barely rise above cameo status (Bowie's certainly is nothing more than that).
Apparently they intended to make more Twin Peaks movies, and that almost 2-3 hours of footage was cut, which makes the whole series + film an incomplete portrait, so it sucks to think of what it could've been instead of what it is - occasionally brilliant, often messy and convoluted.