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Mike D'Angelo, otoh...

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

It must be difficult -- Hoberman called it "a miasma"!

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

actually in the context of his review, it read like a pejorative.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

the attempts at decoding begin. this is pretty good, actually

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

No appearances in Miami of either Laura Dern, Lynch, or his cow.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Completely god awful. His worst since Dune.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

contrarian!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha not this time I'll bet.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

well, at least you're closer to Armond White on this one than I am.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I really liked Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive (the former especially), but usually the best Lynch films are probably his most mainstream ones (The Elephant Man and The Straight Story.)

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

"Sinner Man" by Nina Simone

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Really? When the hell is that from? It sounds totally unhinged.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Wiki sez: "Sinnerman" (spelled as one word) is one of Nina Simone's most famous songs and she recorded her definitive 10-minute plus version on her 1965 album Pastel Blues.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

1964

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

arrghh x-post!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I will have to buy that album now.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I seriously thought it was some crazy Hustle Disco cover of Peter Tosh and the Wailers' "Downpresser".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Lynch:Dern :: Sternberg:Dietrich?

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

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