David Lynch's Favourite Bands
The Guardian | By Caroline Sullivan | 3rd November 2011
The Guardian | By Caroline Sullivan | 3rd November 2011
David Lynch's favourite musicians discuss the relationship between music and the movies.
<< Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes is one of them.>>
<< Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes is one of them.>>
Nick Rhodes, Duran Duran
What moment in film is most similar in its own way to the music you make, and how?
Fellini's La Dolce Vita – specifically, the Trevi fountain scene. I relate to it because of its style and meticulous detail. It's irreverent, and at the time it was made he was doing something that nobody else had done before. This is what we always strive for. Obviously, the results are in the eye of the beholder, but that's how I'd personally love to envisage what we do.
What moment in your music is most filmic, and how?
Two songs come to mind: an early one called The Chauffeur, which tells a story and lends itself to many different interpretations, and one from the new album, called The Man Who Stole a Leopard. I just heard about a man in Cleveland who kept exotic animals and let them loose – when I dreamed up the story I was imagining someone crazy enough to want to capture a leopard and keep it at home.
If you could record a score for any film, what would it be, and why?
Duran Duran could have done a good job for any Alfred Hitchcock film; also any of those Buñuel movies. I like things that have a surreal element. French New Wave would have been good for us, too – we could've come up with something for Breathless.
What moment in film is most similar in its own way to the music you make, and how?
Fellini's La Dolce Vita – specifically, the Trevi fountain scene. I relate to it because of its style and meticulous detail. It's irreverent, and at the time it was made he was doing something that nobody else had done before. This is what we always strive for. Obviously, the results are in the eye of the beholder, but that's how I'd personally love to envisage what we do.
What moment in your music is most filmic, and how?
Two songs come to mind: an early one called The Chauffeur, which tells a story and lends itself to many different interpretations, and one from the new album, called The Man Who Stole a Leopard. I just heard about a man in Cleveland who kept exotic animals and let them loose – when I dreamed up the story I was imagining someone crazy enough to want to capture a leopard and keep it at home.
If you could record a score for any film, what would it be, and why?
Duran Duran could have done a good job for any Alfred Hitchcock film; also any of those Buñuel movies. I like things that have a surreal element. French New Wave would have been good for us, too – we could've come up with something for Breathless.