5. The Dark Side of Hollywood
Another man Lynch is a film-descendent of is Billy Wilder, not a surrealist but a very influential director nonetheless. His film Sunset Boulevard is a Lynch favourite and we can see that in two of his films in-particular, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. They are both named after Los Angeles locations, and both feature heavily the dark side of Hollywood, which Sunset Boulevard does with a masterful effect. Sunset is by far the greatest Hollywood film about Hollywood and Lynch has tried and succeeded to make his two most recent features appear not only as homages to Wilder and other filmmakers, but as great standalone films. What more can we appreciate than a film that tells the truth about the Hollywood we viewers rarely see?