What is The Last Movie You Watched?

David Lynch is real hit and miss with me. I like The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet but just can't get into his more obscure work. I did enjoy him as an actor in Louie recently.

I thoroughly enjoyed the chaotic absurdity of Twin Peaks.

This one is for Stavros.... sadly only nine minutes of the 12 hour film

Andy Warhol - Empire - YouTube

Let's see.... In the past 2 days....
Wrath of the Titans,Prometheus,Ted,The Man With the Iron Fists,The Avengers,Dredd,Expendables 2,and,sadly,the new Resident Evil...

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Yes - saw "Hitchcock" a couple of weeks ago. Excellent film. All focuses around the making of Psycho.

And a great final shot.

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The BBC are running their own Hitchcock bio over Christmas called The Girl, about Hitch's fixation with Tippi Hedren who starred in The Birds and Marnie.

Toby Jones plays Hitchcock. I suspect he'll outshine Hopkins, just as he did Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote.

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Originally Posted by Prospero

I thoroughly enjoyed the chaotic absurdity of Twin Peaks.

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She's dead ....... she's wrapped in plastic

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Originally Posted by Dino Velvet

David Lynch is real hit and miss with me. I like The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet but just can't get into his more obscure work. I did enjoy him as an actor in Louie recently.

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Blue Velvet ..... rotflmao . I made my mother watch that film . Why, because she was raised in the Lumberton, NC area . She didn't recognize any of it . .... lmao . It was filmed in Wilmington, NC where my mother spent a few years in .

savages, one of the best movies ive seen in a long time.

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Originally Posted by Prospero

This one is for Stavros.... sadly only nine minutes of the 12 hour film

Andy Warhol - Empire - YouTube

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No thanks -when form becomes content and content becomes form you have cinematic solipsism; you know yourself that in even the austere films of Bela Tarr something happens, there is a story and it is told with a visual style that makes sense in its own context even if it is too extreme for many people. Warhol, by contrast, was a lazy individual with nothing to say, as exhibited by this kind of film and his so-called 'art'.

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Originally Posted by Stavros

Hmmm Mulholland Drive...starry-eyed Hollywood wannabe rich and famous arrives from the Prairies, ends up on the backside of a jaded diner addicted to heroin and bad men, even though she actually showed some talent. Isn't it wicked how Hollywood corrupts the young? You are surely not fooled by all that empty gesturing and groping of attractive women in apartments they don't own -perhaps like Kubrick Lynch has discovered a way of ogling semi-naked women he isn't married to. I am sure Lynch has his admirers, but not me. I once knew someone who claimed Blue Velvet was the greatest film ever made, mind you the week after it was Brazil. Some people are never pleased.

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You’re right once again, Stavros, the story line is such as you describe. But what about the constant confusion about the identity of the characters? The Naomie Watts character, is she not also the blonde imposed on the director? is she not also her own brunette companion who’s precisely, strangely amnesiac and tries to find whom she is? Is there not a story of role changing through the “magic” of that key box superimposed on the obvious role play everyone in this Hollywood context has to adopt and lead so artificially? Is the candour of the main character not also mocked in some way? There’s a play or a relation between dreams and reality that doesn’t present the former as a golden way to the latter, it seems to me. I don’t pretend to understand a quite mysterious movie, but it seems to be deeper than just a story of a young woman corrupt by Hollywood. It’s all about identity, empathy, social role and position, false sense of freedom, and so on. I don’t know. That’s the way I saw it.