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i've said that before. (xp)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

i suppose Lost Highway is that to an extent.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

(it doesn't make any sense to me but i still like it)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

One of these movies is a damn loop, right? I remember watching one thinking it was pretty good and wondering how it was going to end and then all of a sudden it was back at the beginning scene and the movie was over, which pretty much invalidated everything in between the beginning and the, uh, beginning.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

i think lost highway is more explicit about it, iirc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

but Mulholland Drive isn't a Loop.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Double feature idea — Lost Highway and Head.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

The imdb review of Lost Highway simultaneously spoiled and explained it to me! Never even thought of that!

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

yes, that's an excellent review!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

here's a quicktime .mpg of the Lumiere short.

http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2NS8O0JGU9TKG240R4ERQ14KVV

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

i have a wmv of that that i dowloaded somehwere called "premonitions following an evil deed" (credited to "tulse luper"), and it has a couple segments before yours begins.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

er that is i think the thing you uploaded there is incomplete

― g e o f f (gcannon), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

I have the Lumiere DVD if I can figure out how to copy part of it to MPG

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

you can find the short online for download! it's pretty easy.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

i also found a hi-res version on limewire. it's really short, so it's not a big download.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

you're right, g e o f f, it's missing the cops sequence from the beginning. strange.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

the best review of The Straight Story I've read. Now I think he's a little more classic than before.

Also, has anyone noticed that the twins in the movie are "the Olsen twins"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 18 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

"Shut up, Danny!"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 18 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Lynch is on his T.M.-related speaking tour and appears at UCI tonight; my friend who is helping put this on has info about how you can tune in if you'd like:

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David Lynch live tonight from UC Irvine. Probably one of the smaller venues this tour has been at. (424 capacity). We're also hosting an overflow lecture hall next door with a live video feed of the event for those that can't get seats. For all of you out here worldwide, there's a live radio remote on KUCI.org

http://www.kuci.org/

supposedly also a video stream at

rtsp://128.195.138.185/dLynchlg.sdp

and a small version at
rtsp://128.195.138.184/dLynchsm.sdp

http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org

http://www.davidlynchtour.org

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

(Presentation begins at 7:30 PM Pacific Time, though he is one of three speakers in total and I'm not sure how the presentation itself is organized.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Why do people hate Wild at Heart so much? I was on TV last night, and I caught the second half. I love that movie! Even my normally stodgy roommate liked it. Are ya'll just grossed out by the greasiness of it all?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

I just get tired of it - its narrative leaps are nonsensical, there's no "forward motion" in the plot, and I don't care about the lead characters. I blame the source material - not a big fan of the way Gifford structures his stories.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

also, ilx be hating Nic Cage

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

people hating nic cage must not understand just how fantastic raising arizona is.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I honestly don't get Lynch's appeal - I find his films cold, uninvolving, meaningless and boring.

Having said that I liked Twin Peaks, mostly because it was funny.

xpost - yeah he's great in that. And in Adaptation.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

i personally love wild at heart!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

The Straight Story gets better and better; in its quiet way, as subversive as Mulholland Drive. What beautiful music – some of the best scoring I've heard in modern film.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

wild at heart is a comedy.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.skaityta.lt/img/KingStand.jpg

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

wrong thread!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

and while lynch's films are, perhaps, cold & meaningless they're certainly not uninvolving or boring!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

wild at heart is hot

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

don't jump back so slow, i thought rabbits were supposed to be fast.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

this is rockin good news

― account settings (account), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

my dog barks some

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Enough jibber jabber, get me one (1) trailer for Inland Empire

― Should've Never Give Jimmy Mod Money (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

He has a new animation DVD out, but I have a hard time paying money for some crappy Flash series he put together learning the program.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

wild at heart is a comedy.

i've thought of it as a david lynch airplane! movie, gags every 30 seconds. not all of them connect, but the ones that do are boffo. and since it's a lynch airplane!, it's also scary-weird, but that's just a different kind of gag. sherilynn fenn picking her brains out -- funny, disturbing or just icky? all of the above.

it's his Pop movie. i love it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

also, i think only some of his movies are "cold." eraserhead, maybe, although that's too dreamy to really be cold. dune is chilly, he didn't really engage with that one. and lost highway is definitely cold, which is what i don't like about it -- it's the only one of his movies that really feels nasty to me, and egregiously. blue velvet and mulholland drive are warm and dark.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

gypsy -- sherilyn fenn involved in any kind of picking is hot.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

hot, right, that was the other option.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

lynch should work with harry dean stanton again.

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

also, i think only some of his movies are "cold." eraserhead, maybe, although that's too dreamy to really be cold. dune is chilly, he didn't really engage with that one. and lost highway is definitely cold, which is what i don't like about it -- it's the only one of his movies that really feels nasty to me, and egregiously. blue velvet and mulholland drive are warm and dark.

-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), March 16th, 2006.

otm

― latebloomer aka rembrandt, the fifth ninja turtle (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 March 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

i watched the long ass dune i taped off tv back in the day. its like 4 hours or something. it was kickin ass.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kephm, good news: Harry Dean is in INLAND EMPIRE.

― WitchBaby (witchy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'd guess this was the DVD mentioned a little earlier:

Room to Dream

Sez it's free, though -- and apparently there's Inland Empire behind the scenes footage on it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

oh um, no... oh wow, maybe.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JLVH4BXlPc4&search=david%20lynch

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I finally saw Eraserhead for the first time last night. I mean, holy shit, probably the most unsettling thing ever. I loved though the classic Lynch trick of have-a-wtf-noise-going-for-the-duration-of-a-scene-then-tie-off-the-scene-by-showing-us-what-was-making-that-noise (a la the suckling puppies).

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

It was also like painfully funny in a couple places; Mary's chipper dad, the eraser factory scene, etc.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit, imdb says Jack Nance was MURDERED!?!?

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

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