― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
so it's an interesting, but not really touching movie.and again,"mulloland" is the masterpiece.
― john lang (emekars), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Since when is it the obligation of a film to do this? I think Mulholland is likely his best, and it doesn't do that either (as far as I can tell, since I'm not sure what kind of "new territory" you're talking about, specifically). ie, compare it to everything new in 2006 and it looks fine.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Weird, Mulholland Drive was already a version of Lost Highway... I kinda wished Straight Story would've signalled a new direction to Lynch, but apparently not.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Smashing theater records in New York, so buy in advance:
http://www.thereeler.com/the_blog/lynch_inland_empire_boom_in_ny.php
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― j.m. goatse (get bent), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
It opens here in SF on the 29th, altho I'm not sure where.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
i thought the conceptual key was in two lines -- where abused-wife laura dern says to the weird guy in the dark office at the top of the stairs something like, "i don't know what came before or after. i don't know what happened first, and it's kind of laid a head trip on me." and then in another scene, someone (one of the hooker greek chorus maybe?) says, "it had something to do with the passage of time."
a few days after seeing it, for unrelated reasons i looked up the wikipedia entry on the theory of relativity and came across this line: "it is an open question whether or not there is some fundamental principle that preserves causality." that seems like part of what lynch is after -- this sense cause and effect moving in circles, or mobius strips, with all these repeats and echoes and twists. which was present in mulholland drive too, but it's more deliberate here.
the whole thing also made me think of "stuck inside of mobile": people just get uglier, and i have no sense of time. (not to mention, "Waiting to find out what price/ You have to pay to get out of/ Going through all these things twice").
anyway, i want to see it again. and this time i can time a bathroom break to coincide with a lesser scene.
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
hated the beck song though
― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
whoah
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Not for ONE theater! But I'm really glad I came to love films in an era where nobody -- NOBODY, aside from biz people -- knew or cared what the opening grosses of anything were.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― ice bat f/k/a xero (ice bat f/k/a xero), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Cannot wait to see this movie.
― ice bat f/k/a xero (ice bat f/k/a xero), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Do you have links, by any chance? I'm not doubting you, but I'm curious.
― ice bat f/k/a xero (ice bat f/k/a xero), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Lynch also hinted that his interest in Buddhism may have played a role in the structure of Lost Highway. In an interview with Time Out magazine in the August 1997 issue, Lynch elaborated on the parallels with Buddhism. The interviewer talked of Fred resigned to continue forever, making the same mistakes over and over again, in a number of different realities/lives/modes of being, forever striving for the ideal that Alice represents. Lynch replied that, "He is not consigned to this fate forever... He is not traveling in a circle, but rather a spiral, and at the end of the film moves round onto the next level. Maybe eventually he can find release. The film is only a small part of the story."
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― ice bat f/k/a xero (ice bat f/k/a xero), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
People were talking about meditation upthread as evidence of his interest in Buddhism. He may very well be heavily into Buddhism I just wanted to point out that when he advocates meditation he's talking about something else and any Buddhist themes evident in his work could quite possibly be ideas that he picked up second-hand through TM.
― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
TM siteMaharishi bioAnti-TM siteAnother critical site
― ice bat f/k/a xero (ice bat f/k/a xero), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 December 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
DL: Political intentions. Zero. Some people are very political [Dern raises her hand to indicate she is one of those people] and they'll see politics in everything. This is a world on its own and you just go into this world. When there are abstractions, people have varying interpretations, thoughts, about it. But it's the same with all film. It's so beautiful when the lights go down, the curtains open, and we get to go into a different world.
LD: The mere existence of this film is political. It is rare people are using their voice and doing what they want to do. David isn't trying to redefine cinema; he's defining his own voice. And we need more of that. So I think it's a highly political film.
http://www.greencine.com/article?action=view&articleID=380
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4737&IssueNum=184
“It’s like this. At a certain point, you know exactly what it means for you … . If you don’t know what it means, then you have to think about it more to … put the final pieces together. It’s happened to me on lots of films, starting with Eraserhead, I didn’t know what this thing meant. I was building it, but I didn’t know what it all meant, and I was just going nuts. And I start reading the Bible. And I come upon this line, and I said, ‘That is it.’ And it described the whole thing to me.”
I chuckle to signal that I understand the futility of my next question but that it’s my job to ask it anyway: “What line was that?”
“I bet you were gonna ask that,” he says.
“Is this a question you decline to answer, or … ?”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it doesn’t matter. It would putrify the experience for other people. You work on a film so hard, to get it to feel correct as a whole … and then it’s done. You don’t want to talk about it. It’s cinema! Why break it down and try to put it into words? It’s the language of cinema. It exists that way, for a reason: there it is. It’s on its own. It shouldn’t be taken away from or added to.”
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― this is cutty (mcutt), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:43 (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