How would you rank David Lynch's films?

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David Locke wrote:7. Wild at Heart (only Lynch I've seen I really dislike)
I hated it for many years - everytime i watched it from VHS in cropped to 4:3 on small screen i hated it more.
Until I had a chance to see it on a BIG cinema screen. And I'd love it. It's one of my Lynch's top 3 films!

So, IMO if you didn't see it in a cinema on big screen, you didn't see it at all! ;-)
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Holy Cow! Talk about the hardest list I've ever had to rank!

-Lost Highway
-Dune
-Straight Story
-Mulholland Drive
-Twin Peaks: FWWM
-Wild at Heart
-Elephant Man
-Eraserhead
-Blue Velvet
-Inland Empire

Of course, there are slight changes in rank depending on my current state of mind. :P
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1. Mulholland Drive
2. Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
3. Inland Empire
4. Blue Velvet
5. Eraserhead
6. The Straight Story
7. Elephant Man
8. Wild At Heart
9. Lost Highway
10. Dune
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fire walk with me
inland empire
eraserhead
blue velvet
mulholland drive
wild at heart
lost highway
straight story
still haven't seen dune or elephant man
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1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
2. Inland Empire
3. Blue Velvet
The rest follow in a somewhat precarious order. I never liked Mulholland Drive much and Eraserhead needs a re-watch.

Still haven't seen The Straight Story, Dune and Elephant Man.
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Inland Empire
Fire Walk With Me
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
Lost Highway
The Elephant Man
The Straight Story
Wild At Heart
Dune.
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I'm including Peaks as a major, non-film, Lynch collaborative work:-

Inland Empire
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
Twin Peaks (The Best of, i.e my favourite parts!)
The Grandmother
Lost Highway
Dune
The Elephant Man
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Wild At Heart
Blue Velvet
The Straight Story
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I honestly wouldn't be able to make that list. There's so many ways in which one can assign a certain amount of value to a film and it's too hard to pick one of them. So far, I'm a bit surprised by how low the Straight Story has been ranked, as it always struck me very deeply.

Inland Empire, Fire Walk With Me and The Straight Story are my favorite films by Lynch.
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I'm obviously going to rank only the ones I've seen. Difficult, but here goes:

1) Mulholland Drive
2) Blue Velvet
3) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
4) Inland Empire
5) Lost Highway
6) The Straight Story
7) Eraserhead
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1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Blue Velvet
3. Fire Walk With Me
4. Eraserhead
5. Inland Empire
6. The Elehpant Man
7. Lost Highway
8. Wild At Heart
9. The Straight Story
10. Dune
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1. Inland Empire / Mulholland Drive / Twin Peaks series (Lynch episodes)
2. Fire Walk With Me / Blue Velvet
3. Eraserhead / Lost Highway / The Straight Story
4. The Elephant Man
5. Wild At Heart

Lots of ties!

Haven't Seen Dune.
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Mulholland Dr.
*Twin Peaks episodes (in particular Episodes 2, 14 and 29)
The Straight Story
Blue Velvet
The Elephant Man
Eraserhead
INLAND EMPIRE
Lost Highway
Fire Walk With Me
Wild at Heart
Dune
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FWWM
Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
FWWM Q2 edit (is this allowed??)
The Straight Story
Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart
Eraserhead
Inland Empire (I need to rewatch this I admit)

Yet to see Dune or the Elephant Man. I do have a fan edit of Dune with deleted scenes squeezed in. I don't think i own Elephant Man.
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1. Mulholland Drive
2. Eraserhead
3. Blue Velvet
4. The Elephant Man
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
6. Inland Empire
7. Wild At Heart
8. The Straight Story
9. Lost Highway
10. Dune

Extraordinary filmmaker. Wild At Heart would be comfortably higher than 7 in any other directors greatest films list. I consider seven of his films to be masterpieces. Mulholland Drive was Lynch's greatest film because it was the result of all that came before it. His artistic intent was never clearer or more accurately transferred to the screen as it was for Mulholland Drive, and the film incorporated elements of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Eraserhead.
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