What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[robertlouis]

Inland Empire, a David Lynch movie on Channel 4 last night. Another over-intense narrative with rather too much handheld close-up photography. Not one of his best, but it had the redeeming feature of Laura Dern as the star.

In the can for watching later this week, Micmacs, a film by the guy who made Amelie, supposedly another tour de force of visual effects. We'll see.

[danthepoetman]

Inland Empire, a David Lynch movie on Channel 4 last night. Another over-intense narrative with rather too much handheld close-up photography. Not one of his best, but it had the redeeming feature of Laura Dern as the star.
In the can for watching later this week, Micmacs, a film by the guy who made Amelie, supposedly another tour de force of visual effects. We'll see.

I never got to the end of Inland Empire. I had trouble with Lost Highway too; I felt he was somewhat repeating himself, that the subject had too much to do with that of Mulholand Drive. But in the end, I got to like it. As to Mulholand Drive, I loved it. The best to me remains Wild at Heart, especially in the weirder style, getting weirder and weirder, by the way…

[Stavros]

I never got to the end of Inland Empire. I had trouble with Lost Highway too; I felt he was somewhat repeating himself, that the subject had too much to do with that of Mulholand Drive. But in the end, I got to like it. As to Mulholand Drive, I loved it. The best to me remains Wild at Heart, especially in the weirder style, getting weirder and weirder, by the way…

I also watched this extended piece of vanity last night. I am surprised anyone gets taken in by this con-man posing as a film-maker. Take a tired, tepid moral tale of good versus evil, and wrap it up in non-sequiturs and you have a David Lynch filmm vide Inland Empire -husband/wife gets jealous of husband/wife who is/may be having an affair and it all ends badly, because they don't share David Lynch's Morals of Yesteryear Corrupted By Liberals. Isn't it time that someone told Mr Lynch to forget about the rabbits, the rabbis and the rascals and just make a tv sermon for some evangelical channel? At least in Blue Velvet he marks his card at the very beginning when the all-American Boy Jeff is told by his grandmother not to go to the 'other side of the tracks' when going out at night, which of course he does, to become tangled up in that other America that intellectually-challenged Republican trash like Lynch want 'cleansed'.

[danthepoetman]

I also watched this extended piece of vanity last night. I am surprised anyone gets taken in by this con-man posing as a film-maker. Take a tired, tepid moral tale of good versus evil, and wrap it up in non-sequiturs and you have a David Lynch filmm vide Inland Empire -husband/wife gets jealous of husband/wife who is/may be having an affair and it all ends badly, because they don't share David Lynch's Morals of Yesteryear Corrupted By Liberals. Isn't it time that someone told Mr Lynch to forget about the rabbits, the rabbis and the rascals and just make a tv sermon for some evangelical channel? At least in Blue Velvet he marks his card at the very beginning when the all-American Boy Jeff is told by his grandmother not to go to the 'other side of the tracks' when going out at night, which of course he does, to become tangled up in that other America that intellectually-challenged Republican trash like Lynch want 'cleansed'.

True. There is that easy moralistic connotation in several of Lynch’s movies. But in the weirder style, the one from, say, Blue Velvet on, I’m not sure you can say the same of Wild at Heart or of Mulholand Dr. In the first, yes, we’re talking about a guy who’s trying is best to stay out of trouble, but he’s a gangster! In the second one, much deeper, as far as I’m concerned (unless I read in it what I project myself), he deals with identity, empathy, social pressure and role playing, all of that in very well, softly photograph, beautifully coloured settings with a solid cast –especially the lovely Naomi Watts. Then again, he doesn’t concede anything to the viewer and his pictures are increasingly difficult to “read”, so much so that in the end, it really is too much, and gets to be totally disinteresting. I trust your judgement on Inland Empire, Stavros, as I never got through more than a half hour of it.
I admit I find your analysis absolutely adequate for Twin Peaks and some other of his movies. Great, enlightening comments as usual…

[Cecil Rhodes]

Red dawn

[Prospero]

"The Imposter" a feature lengthy documentary featuring a quite remarkable story - a young Frenchman who impersonated a missing thirteen year old boy from Texas. The family accepted that he was their missing son - even though he looked nothing like him, spoke with a French accent and had imperfect English and was 24 years old. The denouement leaves many open questions.

[Dino Velvet]

Any of you guys seen Hitchcock yet?

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[Prospero]

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

And a great final shot.

[Dino Velvet]

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

And a great final shot.

Thanks buddy. I'm sold. Probably see it this week or next. I'm a really bad procrastinator when it comes to going to the movies. I'd like to see this on a big screen.

[Stavros]

True. There is that easy moralistic connotation in several of Lynch’s movies. But in the weirder style, the one from, say, Blue Velvet on, I’m not sure you can say the same of Wild at Heart or of Mulholand Dr. In the first, yes, we’re talking about a guy who’s trying is best to stay out of trouble, but he’s a gangster! In the second one, much deeper, as far as I’m concerned (unless I read in it what I project myself), he deals with identity, empathy, social pressure and role playing, all of that in very well, softly photograph, beautifully coloured settings with a solid cast –especially the lovely Naomi Watts. Then again, he doesn’t concede anything to the viewer and his pictures are increasingly difficult to “read”, so much so that in the end, it really is too much, and gets to be totally disinteresting. I trust your judgement on Inland Empire, Stavros, as I never got through more than a half hour of it.
I admit I find your analysis absolutely adequate for Twin Peaks and some other of his movies. Great, enlightening comments as usual…

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.