This past week in my David Foster Wallace seminar, we read the essay “David Lynch Keeps His Head” and watched the film Lost Highway, the ostensible subject of the essay. We had difficult conversations about the movie; we had a hard time putting into words what was going on on-screen. According to Dennis Lim, in this excerpt at the New Yorker from his new book David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, we should not be too hard on ourselves. Lim concludes, “Writing about David Lynch, it can be hard not to hear his voice in your head, protesting the violence being done to his work. ‘As soon as you put things in words, no one ever sees the film the same way,’ he once told me. ‘And that’s what I hate, you know. Talking—it’s real dangerous.'”

*And a late-weekend BONUS, recommended to me by a student in the Wallace class: Jim Jarmusch’s Five Golden Rules of Moviemaking.