tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29485212.post2521874489923302115..comments2023-10-31T08:52:03.332+00:00Comments on D'Blog of 'Israeli: As We Get Older, And Stop Making Sense...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02982284633069836213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29485212.post-86233033269998144372007-04-11T00:56:00.000+01:002007-04-11T00:56:00.000+01:00A Film Critic writes:Nice take on the film. I love...A Film Critic writes:<BR/><BR/>Nice take on the film. I loved INLAND EMPIRE (though my arse didn't). Apparently Lynch was well aware he could have used HD video but he stuck with his trusted mid range Sony. I too missed the rich visual textures of his previous work but strangely the unrefined image quality complemented the themes of metaphysical fragmentation and psychosis well. <BR/><BR/>The uneven production values of the cinematography give the film a wonderfully scrambled verisimilitude. We're never quite sure whether we're watching soap sequences (domestic rabbits), surveillance cameras (client and prostitute), 1950s film noire (man at the top of the stairs), reality TV (lounging strippers), Youtube home video (the "barbecue"). documentary (Polish woman) and the low grade handheld camera shots gave the horror a spontaneity which balances perfectly on that Lynchian knife edge of parody. The bad TV motifs of Twin Peaks and Mulholand Drive are especially effective in the gloriously surreal rabbit sequences simultaneously funny and disturbing in their banality. This was a more rough edged and even crueller vision of the world than Mulholland Drive and a fascinating if more self indulgent development.<BR/><BR/>Like the demonic master of ceremonies in Club Silencio Lynch lures the audience into the compelling fascinations of his world only to rudely and perversely draw attention to the smoke and mirrors unveiling the shockingly empty artifice of it all. Whatever "it" is... <BR/><BR/>PS Note the term 'Postmodernism' is not included in this review.Johnny Remhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053947027748945157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29485212.post-61712335105268067492007-04-02T18:22:00.000+01:002007-04-02T18:22:00.000+01:00Creepy. I saw it at The Cameo on Tuesday night: wh...Creepy. I saw it at The Cameo on Tuesday night: when were you there?<BR/><BR/>For my money it was too long and rambling. It opened well and established an unsettling Lynchian vibe, but the interminable last hour ruined a lot of what had come before. The expense of shooting on film might have forced a more condensed and enjoyable version.<BR/><BR/>However, I assumed the use of lower definition video was a deliberate choice used to enhance the dreamlike confusion of identity by blurring faces...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29485212.post-81729991166464680502007-04-01T11:28:00.000+01:002007-04-01T11:28:00.000+01:00I thought twin peaks was fabI thought twin peaks was fabAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29485212.post-34410464436975189402007-03-30T13:16:00.000+01:002007-03-30T13:16:00.000+01:00Eraserhead is such a great film. Appalling, beauti...Eraserhead is such a great film. Appalling, beautiful, boring, and fascinating.<BR/><BR/>I bought it six months before my second childs birth and was awoken one night by my 2 year old son crying in his room upstairs. I walked up to him in the dark with the tiny yellow ceiling mounted fire alarm lights shining circular pools of light straight down onto the hall floor below. An uncanny Eraserhead moment!<BR/><BR/>2 years earlier I found the Cronenberg film The Brood strangely carthatic as well.<BR/><BR/>The book Lynch On Lynch is fascinating especially about the making of Eraserhead and also because he never gives an explicit explanation what his films 'mean'. As is the Cronenberg book in the same series.<BR/><BR/>One of the great what ifs of cinema are if Lynch had accepted the invitation to direct Return of the Jedi. That would have been great.<BR/><BR/>I have still not seen either Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive or the new one so have that to look forward to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29485212.post-25609165644589863152007-03-29T19:35:00.000+01:002007-03-29T19:35:00.000+01:00Yup, it seems kind of an odd thing to say about a ...Yup, it seems kind of an odd thing to say about a 3 hour long, deliberately even odder than usual David Lynch film but, it was all right wasn't it? Not terrible and not brilliant - at various points either one or the other but overall neither one. <BR/><BR/>Kind of expected to struggle with it because of the lack of a conventional narrative but just decided not to worry about it and enjoy the ride as best I could.<BR/><BR/>I agree entirely about the loss of visual quality through the switch to video. Those sinister red curtains just don't work so well without the sumptuous quality of film. He's still pretty top with the sound though.Dave Sheltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03265971917147812508noreply@blogger.com