It’s that time of the year. Or rather that time of the decade. It’s time for “best of” lists — good ones, often banal ones, and some­times bad ones. Here’s one good list that might serve you well next year. Twen­ty-Five Essen­tial Films of the 2000s fea­tures some films that you’ve undoubt­ed­ly seen (The Lord of the Rings, Munich, There Will Be Blood) , but prob­a­bly a good num­ber that you haven’t (Three Times, Fat Girl, The Blind Swords­man: Zato­ichi). If you’re look­ing to replen­ish your Net­flix queue in 2010, it’s not a bad place to begin …

One thing is for sure. David Lynch has nev­er been con­ven­tion­al. Not now, and not dur­ing his ear­ly years. While putting togeth­er our col­lec­tion of Free Movies Online, we unearthed sev­er­al short films from the 1960s, when Lynch was get­ting his start. His very first film, Six Men Get­ting Sick (Six Times), appears above. Links to the oth­ers can be found below. A DVD con­tain­ing these and oth­er ear­ly Lynch films can be bought on Ama­zon here.

• Six Men Get­ting Sick (Six Times) (1966)
• The Alpha­bet (1968)
• The Amputee (1974)

Relat­ed Con­tent 

See What David Lynch Can Do With a 100-Year-Old Cam­era and 52 Sec­onds of Film

David Lynch Mus­es About the Mag­ic of Cin­e­ma & Med­i­ta­tion in a New Abstract Short Film

One Hour of David Lynch Lis­ten­ing to Rain, Smok­ing & Reflect­ing on Art