I know I shouldn’t just direct everyone to videos I find on Youtube, but I really think it would be negligent of me if I didn’t direct everyone here. It’s Steve Shives’ quite wonderful obituary of David Lynch. What interests me about it is that it clearly and overtly straddles the threshold between cinephilia and fandom: listen to what Shives says, and it obviously demonstrates the kind of highly knowledgable adoration of film which cinephillia is said to constitute. His veneration of Lynch clearly recalls auteurism and the passion which the writers of the Cahiers du Cinema had for specific directors. Yet the piece is delivered with a sense of fun, passion and vigour which we find in online fandom. His delivery is very punchy and he obviously has a lot of enthusiasm for what he is saying; yet, in terms of content, the ideas he is discussing are quite complex and at least degree level. Thus I think this is another intriguing example of the way the two discourses are coming together. More to the point though, what Shives says about Lynch is genuinely interesting and well worth a watch.