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Party Boat posted:After being told that my wife and I had gotten into Twin Peaks, my father in law decided to gift us a Lynch film. Yeah, Inland Empire is probably Lynch's most divisive film. I'm not a fan myself, but if you can get through that then you can easily take on the rest of his filmography. Blue Velvet and Eraserhead are my personal favorites of his work, and The Straight Story is very good as well.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I imagine that Eraserhead interview is the one that was on the special edition of Eraserhead 2000 DVD remaster. I believe it is. It also is on the Criterion disc as well.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I think IE is two (or maybe three) brilliant memorable short films chopped up and diluted in one overlong, indulgent mess. (And he had already done Rabbits before, so why we needed it again, I don't know.) I don't think DL had a proper script and he edited it himself - which was fatal. Mary Sweeney did a great job on his previous films and DL needs some constraints to channel his work. He filmed too much because it was digital, so he didn't need to economise with film. That left him with too much material. IE lacks the humour, wit, memorable characters, approachability and balance that made his previous work great. I've watched IE two or three times and I can't remember a single character's name. You can't say that about any of DL's previous films good, bad or patchy. I am not anti-arthouse (Eraserhead is my favourite DL film) but IE is a mess. This is essentially how I felt about IE. I guess I'm glad it exists for the sake of comparison to other films, but it was just...too much for me. I'm not a fan of the digital look of the film at all either, and three hours of that was not enjoyable at all for me. Maybe that was also the point, but I don't know.
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Modest Mao posted:I like mulholland drive in that if you were to make a single edit to the movie, namely make a cut when 'rita' opens the blue box and take everything after that cut and put it at the start, there are basically no plot ambiguities. Pretty much. I feel like there's a contingent of people on the internet that keep trying to make the film have a more complicated plot than it really does, by adding in silly theories about time loops and the like.
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Jun 19, 2015 22:54
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Didn't some of those Twin Peaks spoilers happen when Lynch wasn't directly involved with the show's writing for several months though?
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Jun 20, 2015 17:55
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weekly font posted:If you can tolerate his "style" for lack of a better term, Film Crit Hulk's analysis of Mulholland Drive is excellent. Yeah, glancing over the review it seems that he has the right idea about how Lynch is relating dreams to cinema, by initially constructing the dream portion of the film as a more conventional noirish mystery movie, before the illusion all breaks down.
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Jun 20, 2015 22:41
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I'm normally behind whatever Lynch wants to do but that digital look in INLAND EMPIRE just makes my eyes bleed. 
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Sep 10, 2015 18:08
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Even if IE is his last feature, at least Twin Peaks S3 is something like 18 hours long now, with every episode being directed by Lynch.HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Imagine seeing this blown up on a theatre screen. I heard it looked even worse in theaters than it does on TV.
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Sep 11, 2015 15:14
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My favorite non-sequitur in INLAND EMPIRE is when several characters just vanish halfway through a music video of The Loco-Motion for absolutely no reason.
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Sep 13, 2015 08:51
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My interpretation was that the Owls were vessels or agents of BOB. Unless that is what the Owls are supposed to SEEM like, and if the Owls are not what they seem then I have no idea.
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Sep 14, 2015 16:13
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The Straight Story owns. It might be my favorite film of 1999.
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Feb 4, 2016 21:08
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I knew a guy that hated Ebert's Lynch reviews. He hated him for giving negative reviews to Blue Velvet and Lost Highway and then he hated him even more for giving positive reviews to Mulholland Dr. and INLAND EMPIRE and was glad when Ebert died a few years ago.
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Escobarbarian posted:Sounds like kind of a simpleton. Bright dude otherwise, though when it came to movies he kind of dropped the ball.
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Feb 5, 2016 17:18
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oneforthevine posted:That it was so widely panned is a travesty. You know, beside the Cannes audience that booed it or whatever. gently caress those people.
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Mar 18, 2016 07:59
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oneforthevine posted:Anecdotally, I've read comments on blogger Lostinthemovies's great video series "Journey Through Twin Peaks" from people who saw the film without having watched the show and loved it as a piece of surrealist horror. I also know the thing did super well in Japan, of all places. I've heard the movie and show both did super well in Japan, though I'm not sure I've heard a singular explanation as to why this is.
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Mar 19, 2016 08:27
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Dude if you liked Lost Highway you should check out Edgar G. Ulmer's movie Detour. It's in the public domain so it's pretty easy to find. Lost Highway is basically an unofficial remake just with Lynchian supernatural stuff added in. The lead actor in Detour even murdered his wife!
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Mar 23, 2016 23:00
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Radio Spiricom posted:and critic violet lucca has a new essay on the 30th anniversary revival of blue velvet that opens today http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/blue-velvet-homecoming/ Interesting article, as someone having never checked out the deleted scenes before. It sounds like those deleted scenes really do change the entire point of Blue Velvet. I've always kind of considered Blue Velvet to be Lynch's update on Rear Window, but it appears that they were a little more different until editing on the former began. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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I think some of what she says is questionable. "[W]hat is constant in noir is that all the problems of the world are linked to female sexuality"? I think she's really overstating that as there's a long list of noirs where that just isn't the case, and then her trying to say female sexuality isn't linked to the problems Jeffrey faces in Blue Velvet borders on nonsensical, when, you know, his sexual experiences with Dorothy is a big part of what allures him to the darkness. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding her point.
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Mar 30, 2016 13:31
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Full Battle Rattle posted:Film criticism is largely garbage. This is something I find to be truer and truer as I get older.
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Mar 31, 2016 13:27
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Are you talking about Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks, Pedro? I thought that was a good read but I kind of agree that you need to take anything it says with a grain of salt.
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Jun 3, 2016 17:05
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I've seen people complain it's too American and European centric. Don't think I agree but I've seen people say it.
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Aug 24, 2016 15:09
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FWIW some of the deleted scenes for the movie were blatantly set after the timeline of the show. It's a little less obvious in the final cut of the film, but it was still very much designed to be seen afterwards as Hate Ball was saying.
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Jan 5, 2017 08:08
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INLAND EMPIRE is the only Lynch movie I've hated. I keep thinking I should give it another chance but then I remember that three hour runtime and how I dislike the general look of the movie.
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Jan 18, 2017 18:10
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DrVenkman posted:So then folks, what did we think?
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May 23, 2017 01:04
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I'm 90% sure Lost Highway was inspired by Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour and hell the lead actor of that murdered his wife too.
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May 28, 2017 19:05
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Radio Spiricom posted:people always say this which is understandable but for me its biggest and clearest influences are vertigo and kiss me deadly. its also worth noting that something wild (1986) is essentially the midpoint between vertigo and lost highway
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Jun 27, 2017 18:13
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I still can't believe that Mel Brooks of all people produced that and got Lynch to direct it because of how he loved Eraserhead. Anyways yeah Elephant Man owns.
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Aug 4, 2017 18:45
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The chart is dumb and you should just watch the whole show if you want to watch it.
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Aug 7, 2017 03:41
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Honestly the ways those episodes stand in contrast to the S2 finale, FWWM, and now The Return is super cool and good. Also the Civil War stuff owns and genuinely fits into Lynch and Frost's themes in the series, even if the execution is nothing like they would do.
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Aug 7, 2017 05:04
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It's cool and good. Just don't go in expecting early 90's Lynch- it's more in line with his later stuff.
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Super Fan posted:loving Jim Belushi is in the new Twins Peaks?
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