― john lang (emekars), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
No. I'm going to see it again over the weekend sometime.
The one negative thing I can say about DV is that it's like the old saw about musicians who put a studio in their house and then discover that absolute freedom = absolute indecision. Chaki OTM about what Lynch does with it... If this film is Lynch experimenting with what he can do with DV and self-distribution, I can't wait until his next movie.
My theory on the plot: The curse is a Limbo/Purgatory-like actuality that exists on some meta-temporal level with all of the cursed rattling around inside it. The motel room is a mental safe place to hide from the curse/dysreality outside. "Inland Empire" isn't just a geographic place, but a mental/emotional retreat from outside horror as well as something that actors tap into when playing roles.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Quite a bit of laughing here and there, though. Maybe more so during the first hour, but the dialogue during Dern's Passion of the Hollywood Walk Of Fame got a lot of response.
Of course, it helps that it's incredibly funny in addition to being horrifying.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
they reserve their most tortured arguments for Lynch's use of the Sony PD150, a consumer-grade video camera with such poor resolution that anything beyond ten feet resembles congealed oatmeal. It's fun to hear them maintain that his vision is somehow enhanced by severe pixelation [sic] and zero depth of field, but there's simply no excuse, apart from frugality or aesthetic disinterest, for an artist of Lynch's stature to make a movie that looks as hideous as this.
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/070205_mfe_March_07_Alt_Oscars.html
But it DOES enhance it, Blanche.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
he later noted that another critic who hated it congratulated him for saying this, thinking it was a pejorative
― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://greenliefonfilm.blogspot.com/2007/02/examining-empire-deconstructing-waves.html
― milton parker (milton parker), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
What is the song that plays in the closing credits?
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/film/2007/02/12/lost-lost-lost-/
"The truth is I didn't know who I was playing," she said, "and I still don't know."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link