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February 22, 2025<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

APROPOS OF the death of filmmaker David Lynch, I dug up this photo from a few years ago. <\/p>\n

There I was, watching Lynch\u2019s proverbial cult classic \u201cEraserhead\u201d in an Emirates first class suite. It had been ages since I\u2019d seen the movie and was surprised to discover it in the airline\u2019s catalog.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t think of a stranger venue in which to have watched this movie. If you know \u201cEraserhead\u201d you\u2019ll know what I mean. The contrast was ridiculous: the luxury of the cabin and the industrial bleakness of the film.<\/p>\n

It was great to see it again, and the experience was extra-enjoyable thanks to the Bowers & Wilkins noise-cancelling headsets that Emirates provides in first class. Sound was always such an important element in Lynch\u2019s movies, especially in \u201cEraserhead,\u201d and the ambient whooshing racket of Mach .84 at 35,000 feet might otherwise have drowned out that critical aesthetic. <\/p>\n

That said, I was never a huge fan of Lynch\u2019s work, save for this one and \u201cBlue Velvet,\u201d which I probably watched 62 times and at one point had most of the dialogue memorized. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile I can thank various inflight entertainment systems for having introduced me to many of my favorite movies and TV series. <\/p>\n

I discovered \u201cArrested Development\u201d on a business class seatback screen several years after it went off the air. The same with \u201cFlight of the Conchords,\u201d \u201cBoardwalk Empire,\u201d \u201cLouie,\u201d and, more recently, an excellent drama from England called \u201cHappy Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m old enough to remember when airlines used to project movies onto a blurry bulkhead screen. If you didn\u2019t fancy the carrier\u2019s choice of the day, well, you were out of luck and had to read a book or peruse the inflight magazine. If you were lucky, on a longer flight, they might show two<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n

For the audio, they\u2019d pass out plastic, stethoscope-style headsets that would plug into the armrests. The actors sounded as if they were yelling at each other under water. <\/p>\n

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