Mulholland Drive

it was right there, staring us all in the face for all these years

this explains the lack of posts. you can't see what you are writing when you have no eyes

When I first saw his movie, I immediately started it over and watched it again.

I watched it on two screens simultaneously

seeing this in a theater that looks just like Silencio earlier this year was one of the best moviegoing experiences i've ever had

Yeah I have vivid memories of seeing an advance free screening of this on my college campus. Was stunned by how great it was. When the cowboy gave his "You will see me one more time if you do good; you will see me two more times if you do bad" bite I remember laughing at how clever it was. The rest of the movie the audience gasped whenever he appeared on screen. This is Lynch's most entertaining movie by a mile.

I don't know how to objectively measure "most acclaimed," but here MD is 64th, Blue Velvet 77th.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films.htm

i always thought The Elephant Man was his mainstream claim to fame but on that list it's at 464. i need to rewatch it, i remember seeing it when i lived in this house with SCAD video artists and really liking it.

Mulholland Drive was just an endless series of crazy events. it felt like someone had observed a random movie or television scene while going through an out of body experience. perhaps how an alien would replicate the human drama, only it was purposefully sending up the formalisms that tend to be taken for granted. it was thrilling to watch.

holy shit! what was with that crazy bluescreen swing scene? we lol'd almost immediately at that and the super grinny old folks with Naomi Watts as she arrives at this weird artificial California. when they are in the limo it's so comically grotesque. we almost fell out of the chairs when Billy Ray Cyrus showed up. that casting! wtf? this was years before Miley, years before his ironic cultural resurgence, years past being a Weird Al joke. David Lynch wrote him the perfect character. same with the cowboy, who apparently wasn't an actor, and who couldn't remember his lines. they had to write them on notecards and tape them to Jon Favreau's face for him to do the scene and he did it perfectly. when he shows up, i was like, what the literal fuck? that was this movie endlessly. Club Silencio -- it is all a tape! the hand signals and the trumpets!

much like the new Twin Peaks it was a lot of scenes that may not necessarily narratively connect but for sure are connected through symbols and the artistic language of emotions through more abstract forms such as lighting, colors, themes, motifs, dialog repetition, etc. i am glad to see he has gotten the opportunity to work with Naomi again! it is extra poignant when you consider Mulholland Drive was conceived at one point as a Twin Peaks spinoff.

lol when the cowboy shows up. WTF. ROTFLITMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0stnhrOj6p8

this is really cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HytOc0KxFGU

Location trail
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/mulholland-drive-david-lynch-locations

wow, had no idea that Diane's apartment was in the Snow White cottages. that Elliott Smith connection is nuts, yeah he spent a lot of time there in the last years of his life, sadly living very similarly to Diane, productive but completely cracked out and losing it...

pretty certain that steph1n merr1tt also lived there for a time, based on a memory from the documentary from a few years back.

that Elliott Smith connection is nuts

Positively. Didn't know what I saw when I read that!

Iirc he lived there during some of the writing for Figure 8 and maybe Basement but it wasn’t very long...

though now a 1br goes for ~$2700

you can rent a cheaper 1br on the western/nicer side of west hollywood

pretty certain that steph1n merr1tt also lived there for a time, based on a memory from the documentary from a few years back.

He wrote a song about it, "In the Snow White Cottages," which references Mulholland Drive, Elliott Smith and The Raveonettes.

covered love theme from this score, from my favourite film

https://we.tl/1Nc19Gj3Ls

you made this, Ross?

here's mp3

https://we.tl/oH8IxWLaQV

yeah i did

It's really good mate.

thanks :)

buddy helped with beats, but yeah played all synth parts/outro

i like it a lot!

thanks jed, appreciate that

love the dark minute at the end.

cool, total homage to my love of lynch

This is really neat Ross! Love the dark ending but also the beats.

my favourite movie of all time...?

hey pic.twitter.com/FuNmivCwPd

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) October 16, 2018

For those as clueless as I was, MULHOLLAND DR's twinning and identity blurring shares a lot of DNA with Bergman's PERSONA, Rivette's CÉLINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU and Altman's 3 WOMEN - all are great and provide a nice counterpoint.
Which is of course to ignore the gender politics of these four men writing and making movies about women having unstable and ill defined identities which can be pushed around.

When I saw this thread pop up I knew it would be that meme

I'm always surprised Meshes of the Afternoon isn't brought up more tbh

matthew, also this movie is totally indebted to sunset boulevard

this movie is indebted to a lot of movies

Telephone Thing otm about Meshes of the Afternoon too fwiw

Agreed Ross - and there's even a Gordon Cole in SUNSET BLVD! I was highlighting the twinned-women microgenre.

that's a p big microgenre. you left out Vertigo for ex.

full house

Three's Company

my mind has known no peace since i discovered the dumpster woman from mulholland drive is also in both princess diaries films pic.twitter.com/dxSotlfNSf

— grace b-p (@gracesimone) April 10, 2019

Watched Hellraiser last night, and there's a very strong similarity between dumpster person and the homeless dude that picks the cube out of the fire. It's close enough to where I'm wondering if Lynch just grabbed the idea directly from Barker.

how the hell did I never see that interview with the actress?
https://www.vulture.com/2014/10/mulholland-drives-evil-hobo-breaks-her-silencio.html

Haha, that's great

Incredible headline

Worth a try

Lifehack: if you time the opening of the blue box directly after hearing “Silencio,” the wide-eyed illusion of living your best life will dissolve into the feverish inescapable reality of our iteration of the multiverse—one rooted in jealousy, heartbreak, and unrelenting failure pic.twitter.com/K98gCMFq88

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) January 1, 2020

I think I just found my optimal Twitter account.

It's a great one. I can't shake the feeling he's from ILX, possibly because he's called Eric.

I sometimes wish I had some record of how I ended up following people on Twitter

It's a great one. I can't shake the feeling he's from ILX, possibly because he's called Eric.

He’s not. Great guy tho- major props to him and the rest of the collective for Beyond Video in Baltimore. Good friend to have.

Watched this for the first time recently - then watched it again (over a few days), to pick up some threads. Pretty... uh, remarkable movie; and not at all what I was expecting (in a good way). I've been thinking about it a lot, but I guess there's not much to say that would be interesting or "fresh"... I've never seen a Wikipedia page for a movie with so much theory/discussion, ha ha. It is interesting to read that the first half (or whatever) was originally shot as a TV pilot, which I guess explains some things.

I was surprised to encounter several plot elements (and actors) from Twin Peaks: The Return (which I love to death). Parts of the movie almost feel like a "dry run" for that series – to see it now almost "ruins the magic" a little, lol! But I'm sure glad I finally saw it. (For context, I decided I was done with Lynch movies after Lost Highway, so I had no interest when this came out.)

One other thing I will say is that Naomi Watts's performance is just incredible.

I’m watching Barry Lyndon—there’s a nice analogue of the dinner party scene near the beginning of the movie (it doesn’t play out the same way, of course…).