Inland Empire. Another David Lynch

[jomar]

MINDFUCK!!!

Off to the special features DVD to see if there's clue about wtf's going on.

Oh crap! the special features menu promises more confusion.

Off to the things that scare me thread: Being inside David Lynch's mind.

 

[CharleyH]

MINDFUCK!!!

Off to the special features DVD to see if there's clue about wtf's going on.

Oh crap! the special features menu promises more confusion.

Off to the things that scare me thread: Being inside David Lynch's mind.

ROFLOL - Saw it on the BIG SCREEN when it first came out. Its sort of like a summary of all his previous movies ... and I think Blue Velvet, Highway 69, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Fire Walk With Me and that Nicholas Cage/ Laura Dern one with the Chris Isaac song.

The film is avant garde as an understatement, me thinks.

 

[Lee Chambers]

Who is David Lynch?

 

[CharleyH]

Who is David Lynch?

Over-rated, auteur. I do love his movies, though. They make you mad as a hatter.

 

[cloudy]

Over-rated, auteur. I do love his movies, though. They make you mad as a hatter.

Twin Peaks was probably one of the best serial dramas ever. Very misunderstood, but remarkable for its uniqueness among bland television.

 

[rgraham666]

Twin Peaks was probably one of the best serial dramas ever. Very misunderstood, but remarkable for its uniqueness among bland television.

Seconded. No other show made me go "WTF?" more often.

 

[cloudy]

Seconded. No other show made me go "WTF?" more often.

Its the only show I've ever scheduled my life around.

 

[rgraham666]

Its the only show I've ever scheduled my life around.

Same here.

 

[bluebell]

Laura Dern is the motherfucking bomb.

Jo, you did it again!!!
I've been geeking out about Inland Empire all week. Made a special trip to Borders on Tuesday evening to get it.

If you're running to the special features, make damned sure you watch the one where he cooks the quinoa. I would've paid the twenty bucks just to see that and hear about the colored water/coca-cola story.

Oh, I love that man. I love him to distraction.
Of course, he does still get rather heated for a dude who practices transcendental meditation twice a day.

I was thinking about starting a thread just for David Lynch discussion but wasn't sure if people would even want to delve into it so much.
Me? I could blab about him and his work for a good long while.

Actually, I blab anyway.

 

[DeeZire]

Who is David Lynch?

He likes to wrap time around in a circle, like he did in Mullholland drive, so that the end of the movie has progressed to events that happen at the beginning. (At least, I think that's what he did in that movie.) The analogy I use is a 'mobius strip', one of the few things I remember from high school. It's a belt with a twist in it, so that no matter which surface you're on, you're always on the same surface. And now, my head is going to explode.

 

[CharleyH]

I was thinking about starting a thread just for David Lynch discussion but wasn't sure if people would even want to delve into it so much.
Me? I could blab about him and his work for a good long while.

Actually, I blab anyway.

Would love you to do it! I think he drives one mad as a hatter, yet I did figured out what the mysterious BLUE BOX was in Mulholand Drive! Start one. Not sure it would stay long on AH, but blah! Start one anyhow! I'd love to hear your take on some of his films.

 

[trysail]

....that Nicolas Cage/Laura Dern one.........

........ and that Nicholas Cage/ Laura Dern one with the Chris Isaac song.

"Wild At Heart"

A gnarly film!

On the other hand, I really could have done without seeing "Eraserhead."

 

[bluebell]

Thread forthcoming...when I can figure out how to distill the essence of Lynch

Would love you to do it! I think he drives one mad as a hatter, yet I did figured out what the mysterious BLUE BOX was in Mulholand Drive! Start one. Not sure it would stay long on AH, but blah! Start one anyhow! I'd love to hear your take on some of his films.

Charley has asked, and I shall readily oblige.
Now I'm wriggling around all puppy-like and excited!

 

[CharleyH]

Charley has asked, and I shall readily oblige.
Now I'm wriggling around all puppy-like and excited!

Please PM with a link when you have a thread, Blue. I am off to Europe on Tuesday and will check PMs, but not thread titles.

Can't wait to discuss directors like Lynch!!! Way cool. I'm excited ... not to put too much pressure on you - lol

 

[starrkers]

Twin Peaks was probably one of the best serial dramas ever. Very misunderstood, but remarkable for its uniqueness among bland television.

Definitely.
Have never forgiven my employer for changing my shift times so I missed the end episodes (no VCR )

 

[Carnevil9]

"Wild At Heart" and "Eraserhead" are two of my all time favorite films, and Lynch is my second all time favorite directer (right after Orson Welles). I even have a huge "Eraserhead" movie poster up over my computer.

The key to understanding Lynch's movies are in a (paraphrased) quote from the man himself. He said, basically, "Don't think of my movies as stories; think of them more as dream sequences." Or something to that effect. He's not trying to tell a linear story; he's trying to evoke feelings and emotions.

He's a genius, if you ask me......Carney

 

[TE999]

Twin Peaks was probably one of the best serial dramas ever. Very misunderstood, but remarkable for its uniqueness among bland television.

OMG! You are so right Cloud Warrior. That was some kick-ass TV. The ending was a let-down though. David was supposed to wrap it all up in a movie, but his attention went elsewhere.

Eraserhead was an excellent movie. Especially if you were *ahem* under the influence. No one knows how the baby sequences were filmed either. A special effects mystery.

Short version: the man is a genius or mad or both. Thank gods.

 

[slyc_willie]

OMG! You are so right Cloud Warrior. That was some kick-ass TV. The ending was a let-down though. David was supposed to wrap it all up in a movie, but his attention went elsewhere.

Eraserhead was an excellent movie. Especially if you were *ahem* under the influence. No one knows how the baby sequences were filmed either. A special effects mystery.

Short version: the man is a genius or mad or both. Thank gods.

The thing that got me about Twin Peaks was the inclusion of all the 'little' details. Everything from Kyle MacLachlann's fascination with the Douglas Firs to the eye-patched psycho-woman's OCD concerning her curtains. Sexuality was a constant throughout the series, especially with Laura Flynn Boyle, Heather Graham, and Madchen Amick. Damn . . . I'd be hard-pressed to pick one from the other for my own fantasy.

Strangely enough, when Lynch got the axe from the network about his show, he optioned to pull the viweres in deeper and keep them wanting.

Kudos to Lynch for that.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

MINDFUCK!!!

JESUS FUCKIN' H. CHRIST! It's sweet, though, isn't it?

I saw it on the big screen too - with Charlie - and LOVED IT. The thing with this particular movie is that, much more than with all his previous mindfucks, we're not supposed to try to figure out WTF's going on. It's not so much a movie as it is an art installation with a video loop. It's the same story - using the word very loosely - with small variations repeated five times with the same actors playing different roles or different actors playing the same roles or the same actors playing the same roles or the different actors playing different roles. I was laughing all the way through it, because there were so many references to his previous movies and to himself. Those other movies had at least 90% of an understandable plotline with the other 10% being random, but on Inland Empire, it's like each scene only makes sense as unravelling from the previous scene. And like in a dream, the scene after that will make sense as unravelling from there, but won't have any relation the the first one. Stream-of-consciousness film!

The one thing that the loop keeps coming back to is the core message: in the film industry, everyone is a whore.

Over-rated, auteur.

Shuddup. You're just mad because there was no popcorn and the subtitles were in Portuguese.

By the way, I think that anthropomorphic rabbit porn in Polish will one day be the shit!

 

[jomar]

Lauren

JESUS FUCKIN' H. CHRIST! It's sweet, though, isn't it?

Indeed.

I saw it on the big screen too - with Charlie - and LOVED IT. The thing with this particular movie is that, much more than with all his previous mindfucks, we're not supposed to try to figure out WTF's going on. It's not so much a movie as it is an art installation with a video loop. It's the same story - using the word very loosely - with small variations repeated five times with the same actors playing different roles or different actors playing the same roles or the same actors playing the same roles or the different actors playing different roles. I was laughing all the way through it, because there were so many references to his previous movies and to himself. Those other movies had at least 90% of an understandable plotline with the other 10% being random, but on Inland Empire, it's like each scene only makes sense as unravelling from the previous scene. And like in a dream, the scene after that will make sense as unravelling from there, but won't have any relation the the first one. Stream-of-consciousness film!

The one thing that the loop keeps coming back to is the core message: in the film industry, everyone is a whore.

That's actually helpful! My brain was overheating on the home stretch, but I thought I noted some theme of salvation, redemption or something enlightening.

You have to see his movies a couple of times, for sure.

By the way, I think that anthropomorphic rabbit porn in Polish will one day be the shit!

I thought I was having flashbacks of Donnie Darko!

 

[jomar]

Jo, you did it again!!!
I've been geeking out about Inland Empire all week. Made a special trip to Borders on Tuesday evening to get it.

If you're running to the special features, make damned sure you watch the one where he cooks the quinoa. I would've paid the twenty bucks just to see that and hear about the colored water/coca-cola story.

Oh, I love that man. I love him to distraction.
Of course, he does still get rather heated for a dude who practices transcendental meditation twice a day.

I was thinking about starting a thread just for David Lynch discussion but wasn't sure if people would even want to delve into it so much.
Me? I could blab about him and his work for a good long while.

Actually, I blab anyway.

The quinoa segment was a hoot! Do a thread.