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Inland Empire (2006)

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    chrismorrellchrismorrell Inland Empire
    by chrismorrell in chrismorrell Blog
    loved it.
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     "Further into the labyrinth we go with David..if the twists of "Mulholland Drive" lost you,(did you see what i did ?) then i dont expect you will get here... It's over-long and sprawling on first viewing ,but the apparently barren sections are punctuated by such genuinely shocking imagery,that you will go back for more,but with a deal of trepidation.. A crazily quick run through from me..The fracturing of the "narrative" begins almost straight away..the first section echoes "Mulholland Drive"and then "Lost Highway" ,as reality and artifice is undermined and characters appear to transform..a thread that is introduced in the first few scenes dominates the middle section..the final section brings the climaxes of shocks and mind games, further twisting into the labyrinth..the end-title sequence with all Lynch's assembled "lovelies" ,like waking from a nightmare,provides a welcome sigh of relief. " [More]
    Smooth_JSmooth_J The Rarely Recognized Art of th ...
    by Smooth_J in Smooth_J Blog
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     "The idea for this analysis came to mind when I recently saw Bergman's The Seventh Seal. While I was not quite as blown away by the film as most accolades of the film would suggest, I still found it to be an excellent movie, and could see very clearly the influence it has had on so many films that have come after it. The one scene that I especially noticed a direct legacy in later films was a short, almost gimmicky little snippet during the medieval religious cult scene in the town--where the drums are beating loudly, people are screaming in agony as whips crack, and monks and other repenters are carrying enormous crosses on their backs. There is a short string of profile shots: Antonius, Jons, and "The Girl" (the only specific name I could find for her anywhere on the internet). The cuts between the faces are done with the beats of the drums; they are perfectly centered, with mist or smoke rising in the backgrounds, adding to each image's raw, black-and-white imagery; and each f ... " [More]
    CinemaRianCinemaRian Inland Empire (2006, USA, David ...
    by CinemaRian in CinemaRian Blog
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     "Every once in a while, a movie comes along that I know that if I write an honest review of it, I will receive hate mail. These are usually extremely popular and/or critically respected films that I feel just don't deserve the reputation. Although I saw some of these before I started writing reviews, let's take a stroll down memory lane at some of these movies: The Tin Drum, Rushmore, The Deer Hunter, The Usual Suspects, Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night, Juliet of the Spirits, Kiss Me Deadly, sex, lies, and videotape, The Shawshank Redemption, Paris, Texas. I have a strange feeling that I can add Inland Empire to the list. So what can I say about this movie? It's from David Lynch, whose made some great films (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet), and some really bad ones (Dune). It's certainly not commercial- a three hour avant garde piece with only the barest threads of a story, shot on ugly DV. And for me, it was really, really boring. Not that I have anything against the avant garde or ... " [More]
    Smooth_JSmooth_J Calculated bizarrity as only Da ...
    by Smooth_J in Smooth_J Blog
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     "Inland Empire is exceptionally strange. There is almost no comprehendable narrative, and where there is one, it is so sketchy and surreal that it is still difficult to follow. It is a moody, dark, 3 hour nightmare. It is a certified, hardcore mind-f*ck, leaving you with almost no sense of what you just watched, making it near impossible to decipher with just one viewing. I loved every minute of it.Now, I know there are several theories about the plot floating around, and I have formulated my own after a repeat viewing. I'll start with the basic plot, that is actually completely coherent and developed for at least part of the film: An aging actress, played by the glorious Laura Dern, is cast in a film that could have the potential to rekindle her career. She is cast alongside a notorious womanizer, who is warned not to try with her on account of her possessive and violent husband. The film is apparently cursed, as revealed by their director, a criminally underutilized Je ... " [More]
    SpoutBlogSpoutBlog The David Lynch Spoof & The Rea ...
    by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com
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     "You might have seen the above video by now??????it’s been making the rounds all weekend. Someone took a couple of clips from the Inland Empire DVD, of David Lynch railing against the watching of films on cell phones, and set it to the familiar music from Apple commercials. “It’s such a sadness, that you think you’ve seen a film on your fucking telephone!” he cries. “Get real!” Cue the iPhone logo. The End. Cute, right? Harmless. Not exactly. Kent Nichols, co-creator of the mega-popular web series Ask a Ninja, has written a blog post in response to the clip, titled “David Lynch is a tool.” “Look David Lynch,” Nichols writes. “I respect that you???ve made a career by confusing people and by pretending to be smarter than them.” But… …you???re getting to be a cranky old man. If someone wants to pay you to watch your weird little films on a cell phone or a DVD or a flipbook, just smile and take the money. Short of inviting every potential viewer to sit and watch it in your personal view ... " [More]
    KarinaKarina The David Lynch Spoof & The Rea ...
    by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog
    liked it.
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     "You might have seen the above video by now??????it’s been making the rounds all weekend. Someone took a couple of clips from the Inland Empire DVD, of David Lynch railing against the watching of films on cell phones, and set it to the familiar music from Apple commercials. “It’s such a sadness, that you think you’ve seen a film on your fucking telephone!” he cries. “Get real!” Cue the iPhone logo. The End. Cute, right? Harmless. Not exactly. Kent Nichols, co-creator of the mega-popular web series Ask a Ninja, has written a blog post in response to the clip, titled “David Lynch is a tool.” “Look David Lynch,” Nichols writes. “I respect that you???ve made a career by confusing people and by pretending to be smarter than them.” But… …you???re getting to be a cranky old man. If someone wants to pay you to watch your weird little films on a cell phone or a DVD or a flipbook, just smile and take the money. Short of inviting every potential viewer to sit and watch it in your personal view ... " [More]
    tobensontobenson Inland Empire = Rubbish!
    by tobenson in The Obenson Report
    disliked it.
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     "Just finished watching INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch’s last opus… suffice it to say that this is the last David Lynch film I’ll ever see! I’ve given the man enough hours of my life over the last 7 years, to convince me that he is a voice that I should pay attention to, or be interested in, and I’m regretting almost every second :o) UGH! A 3-hour ride that goes nowhere, shows me nothing new, and doesn’t seem to care whether it accomplishes anything, other than confuse audiences into believing in its false sense of importance. If this film was made by any other person who wasn’t called David Lynch, it would be trashed fiercely by critics and dismissed altogether. But because it IS David Lynch, we’re supposed to automatically raise our heads and commend its genius. Poppycock!! If David Lynch didn’t exist, the film world wouldn’t miss him… at least I certainly wouldn’t. Listen to my audio podcast at www.obensonrepor ... " [More]
    SpoutBlogSpoutBlog Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE: an Insid ...
    by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com
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     "Yesterday BoingBoing pointed to an article on The Psychologist Online by Huw Green that argues that David Lynch’s work, particularly Inland Empire, is an accurate depiction of what it’s like for someone with a psychotic illness to encounter reality. I immediately thought of last week’s episode of FilmCouch, in which I used Lynch, a new documentary about the filmmaker, as a point of entry to talk about his recent work. I compared Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire to recent films penned by Charlie Kaufman, namely Being John Malkovich, [More]
    SpoutBlogSpoutBlog FilmCouch #42
    by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com
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     "Lynch, a new documentary about the often imitated but never duplicated auteur, gives us an excuse to see how titles like Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire stack up to the next generation’s attempt at mind-bending cinema. Karina interviews an interview pro, NYU professor and host of AMC’s Movies 101, Richard Brown. FilmCouch 43 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog " [More]
    PuhnnerPuhnner an interesting article on Slate
    by Puhnner in Puhnner Blog
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     "Here is a link to a pretty interesting article on Slate describing both the film and the film-making; I think it is worth a reading and a post:http://www.slate.com/id/2 172678/pagenum/all/#page_start here is the text, there are some embedded videos available with the link that could not be linked to this postdvd extras David Lynch Goes DigitalWhy Inland Empire is better on your TV than it was on the big screen.By Dennis LimPosted Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007, at 10:34 AM ET In recent years, David Lynch has emerged as a tireless proselytizer—of organic coffee, transcendental meditation, and, perhaps most surprising for a onetime celluloid fetishist, digital video. While other veteran filmmakers (Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh) have dipped their toes in the chilly electronic murk of DV, Lynch has jumped right in. "Film is like a dinosaur in a tar pit," he told me when I interviewed him last fall. Lynch's " [More]
 
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