Synopsis
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
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Cast
- Amy NicholsonHost (Chapter 1: 'Wind') (voice)
- Rodney AscherHost (Chapter 2: 'Membranes') (voice)
- John WatersHost (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
- Karyn KusamaHost (Chapter 4: 'Multitudes') (voice)
- Justin BensonHost (Chapter 5: 'Judy') (voice)
- Aaron MoorheadHost (Chapter 5: 'Judy') (voice)
- David LoweryHost (Chapter 6: 'Dig') (voice)
- David LynchSelf (archive footage)
- Jason StovalLounge Wizard (as Sid Pink)
- Judy GarlandSelf (archive footage)
Recommandations
- 80
Screen Daily
With its impressive array of hundreds of film clips, frenetic editing and whip-smart narrators, Lynch/Oz offers an exciting prism through which to view Lynch’s oeuvre. - 75
The Film Stage
For a Lynch diehard, Lynch/Oz will be catnip. For any average moviegoer, it digs into the well of American cinema history with enough fascination that it’s worth a watch. - 75
The Playlist
A mite repetitive at nearly two hours, it’s still an edifying intermediate-level study compressing academic insight into personal reflection, and vice versa. - 67
IndieWire
Lynch/Oz is less compelling for any of its individual theories or observations than for how it frames movies as permeable membranes that flicker between personal obsession and the collective unconscious. - 65
TheWrap
While some talking points tend to be belabored and others don’t get unpacked at great enough length, Lynch/Oz still offers movie-lovers a variety of thoughtful and dynamic new ways of seeing Lynch’s work. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Though frustratingly unfocused and sometimes overreaching (even compared to Philippe’s other docs, which are never what you’d call precision-crafted), the film is consistently enjoyable, with just enough flashes of insight to justify its existence. - 60
Variety
Lynch/Oz is bursting with ideas about it, and about how it colonized the consciousness of David Lynch, but the movie is too pie-in-the-sky to quite make it over the rainbow. - 20
Film Threat
Behind the pseudo-intellectual curtain of Philippe’s pseudo-documentary, you will not find a wizard. You will find nothing at all.
