For what I have always appreciated David Lynch's cinema is his refraining from formal structures and his aesthetics on screen. His latest achievement is called Inland Empire that won the Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival 2006. The Guardian characterised it as "a Russian doll of a film." Geoffry Macnab reports: "Narrative coherence has never been much of a concern for Lynch. Here, disconcertingly, there are sequences not explained at all, involving a family on stage in rabbit heads as well as a murky subplot about Eastern European prostitutes. Hollywood myth and Polish gypsy folk taleclash haed-on with startling but uneven effect. the director deliberately blurs the lines and so we are never quite sure whether we are watching the film-within-the-film (being directed by Jeremy Irons) or the film about the film-within-the-film." (The Guardian 7 Sep 2006: 15).And why the hell should Lynch conform with conventional narrative patterns anyway and aim at explaining what he is portraying? After all, these traits have been his hallmarks especially in films like Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive. Personally, I am a fan of self referentiality and I support blurred narrative styles and plots that provide non-naturalistic and non-teleological results.I am really looking forward to watching it!
Released in November. Starring Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux.
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The Guardian characterised it as "a Russian doll of a film."
and most of the States will go 'huh?' and ignore it or if they actually see it, totally won't get it.
Personally, I am a fan of self referentiality and I support blurred narrative styles and plots that provide non-naturalistic and non-teleological results.I am really looking forward to watching it!
amazingly i am as well. :)
ps, what did you think of 'memento?'
:) Oh yes, it is not accidental that Lynch is not as well-known in the States as in Europe.
Memento was really clever, it debilitates one of the most powerful traits of our era (memory) and I think it is the first film to use such a 'backwards' narration. Personally, I prefer a more jumbled structure that is not necessarily based on a coherent story like for example Mulholland Drive.
yes, i prefer what i dig calling 'time-challenged' movies where the plot's not spoon-fed into every audience member's mind in goddamned chronological order. i prefer thinking and trying to figure stuff out for myself. then again, i love watching films like that quite a few times, to make sure i get them.
on that note, you might dig 'irreversible'.
on the other hand, i totally adore 'the big lebowski'. go figure, lol.
I saw it when it first came out and I have to say, after Bellucci's rape, the film is excellent (I am a huge fan of Cassel ;))! Before that, I want to throw up...
I love the Big Lebowski too, it doesnt mean that a film has to necessarily challenge the form to be 'alternative' and sophisticated (dude sophisticated, haha...)
um, that's just your opinion, man.
(but i totally agree w/you for a change) :-)
Ι Love D.Lynch and can't wait to see it.Who cares about the critics?
:)
pixie: Who cares about the critics?
exactly--i usually adore what they dis.
Absolutely, this is actually very pertinent to my thesis that among other things discusses the reception of American playwright Phyllis Nagy by the British press (god help us!!)
I live in the States and can't wait to see it - my friends and I would get together on Thursday nights and watch the Twin Peaks series, eating cherry pie and ice cream. I think Jeremy is a perfect fit for a Lynch movie!
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