David Lynch's "Inland Empire"

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I rescreened Fire Walk With Me last night to feel appropriately Lynchian.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

it's like half of a good movie... best scene = Leland at the dinner table obsessing over whether or not Laura's washed her hands

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

After they play, "buy now" appears. I'm guessing you'll be able to download the files after you pay... ([ILLEGAL HAX0R OPTION] or just record them with Total Recorder or something and then convert them to a format your phone can play [/ILLEGAL HAX0R OPTION])

(xpost)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

oh duh. thx man

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

at this stage Lynch coud release what was deemed to be a disaster and i'd probably stil watch it ten times over.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It's more baffling than Mulholland Dr -- tho I figured out the ending, at least to my satisfaction, 2-1/2 hrs after it was over -- and quite good. Dern's kind of amazing and has no dialogue for long stretches. Best thing I've seen so far this year. My Lynchfan friend was "confused."

If anyone spots Nastassja Kinski in it, let me know.

No original score, but lots of Penderecki, and Beck and "The Locomotion" pop up.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 October 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

How's the digital video look?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 9 October 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"best thing i've seen so far this year."
-- dr. morbius

(that should be the only blurb on the poster)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

SO EXCITED

― Jimmy Mod is COMPLETELY MISERABLE SAN DIEGO (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The digital video does not look 'good,' by Lynch's own admission (see NYT above -- it's not hi def) but is approp for nightmarescape.

Laura Dern and Lynch did Q&A, and when she described the DV shooting-all-the-time method as leading to "instinctual" acting, he interrupted her with "Intuitive! Instinctual is I'm hungry, I gotta go eat."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Lynch to self-distribute in US & Canada:

http://www.movieweb.com/news/44/15044.php

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Opens in NYC & LA in December:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/anthony/archives/011650.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

no fair!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/david-lynch/update-david-lynch-and-his-favorite-cow-team-up-to-drum-up-interest-in-inland-empire-213760.php

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

ok that's awesome

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe I missed him!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It's up on YouTube now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut6zdE8qWj0

Lynch is like the Hollywood Obi Wan Kenobi now... "stay out of trouble. see ya!"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

from the Hold...

http://ilx.thehold.net/thread.php?msgid=21063

If you need a literal "interpretation," chaki's works as well as any.

Is IE just crawling across the continent city by city?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

still eagerly waitin for it over here

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently its due for an SF Intl Film Fest screening at the Castro, but that's already sold out and I can't even find the event information...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to see this again and then possibly a third time

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

When in the UK?!

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't know Rhino has a DVD deal for it. Anyway, DC beginning this weekend, and Chicago later this month.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Lynch is doing an in-store appearance at Scarecrow Video in Seattle on 1/17.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

and in Chicago on the 27th.

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/inlandempire.html

DVD in June.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

if the only SF screening turns out to be that SF Film Fest one I am gonna be really pissed.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

There's allegedly a schedule of dates here, but I can't get in:

http://www.inlandempirecinema.com

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah that link is broken I think

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

fly to NYC just to see it?

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

It's opening in Austin, there'll hafta be a SF run.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the idea of lynch driving it around the country. rolling into some midsize midwestern city in an oldsmobile with the reels in the trunk, chatting up the manager at some local multiplex, talking him into giving him a screen for a couple nights on the q.t., advertising by hand-delivering fliers to coffee shops and record stores and kinko's. "tonight inland empire 7 & 10:30 p.m. WITH LAURA DERN" in magic marker on piece of notebook paper taped to the inside of the box office ticket booth. at the end of each show he stands outside and thanks everyone as they leave.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

shakey mo, it's been playing in LA for a month at a few theaters.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

are you willing to go to Marin Co. in February?

http://hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com/

Our first chance comes January 19th when Lynch is set to appear at the Rafael Film Center, which started distributing its new calendar last week. The film will open there for an engagement of an unspecified length on February 9th.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah I'll take that - prefer Marin to LA.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

(thx for all the research Morbs I really appreciate it!)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Please explain what this film was about.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i wrote this on the sandbox:

plot wise my theory is: that polish chick is stuck in purgatory cuz her movie was never finished and she died cuz she got preggy from some trick (or the other actor?) and her husband kicked the shit out of her or she killed herself with a screwdriver giving herself an abortion and laura dern like 50 years later or whatever finishes the movie or something and the crying polish chick watches the finally completed movie and is sent on her path to heaven or happiness or whatever during that emotional scene where they kiss or i dunno.

keep in mind i saw this movie twice. once on shrooms months ago and once sober last weekend so i dunno i might be wrong. someone help me. i still dont know that the fuck "hes good with animals" thing means.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't understand who/what the poor Laura Dern was/ the one with the husband who got ketchup all over his shirt?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://gfx.filmweb.pl/p/4680/po.133070.jpg

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

chaki i feel you

― 69 (plsmith), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Nikki is the classy actress lady who lives in a mansion. I thought Sue was the nicely dressed Southern lady of the movie. But who is the lower class Laura Dern, the Laura Dern who cavorts with ladies of night, and the Laura Dern who delivers monologue to strange man?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i understand the impulse to make this thing fit some kind of narrative but i think it's somewhat beside the point. (which it almost always is with lynch.) the movie makes more sense as variations on his old favorite theme of identity, the deep curdled layers of the self and all the mechanisms of expression and deception built on top of it. the importance of illusions in maintaining some sense of reality, the way reality is constructed and is always closer to the verge of collapse than we're generally willing to admit. i think all his movie metaphors are basically metaphors of consciousness. so in that sense a cursed movie would be a cursed consciousness, a cursed awareness -- poisoned knowledge. you could argue (and some film student probably has) that lynch's movies are all variations on the eden story. as written and directed by the serpent.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

sooooooo looooooooong. I prefer Lynch with an hour time limit.

― quincie (quincie), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

If anyone spots Nastassja Kinski in it, let me know.

Hello, did anyone ever answer this for you? There are several threads going on about the film--she's in the very last bit, the same scene Laura Harring shows up in aka the credits. It is completely, 100% "if you blinked you missed her," she's sitting off to the side of Laura Dern. If she shows up elsewhere in the film, I missed it though.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Nikki being an onion, having all those different women in her.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I THINK KINSKI IS THE BLURRED OUT FACED PROSTITUTE IN THE BEGINNING TOO.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

David Lynch is doing a Q&A at the Austin opening. This sold out pretty quickly - I'm pissed that I'm missing it!

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I mulled that idea over in my head because I honestly didn't notice her anywhere else in the film. I mean Laura Harring is a rabbit, so surely Kinski shows up in a similar circumstance? She wouldn't just show up for no reason at the end, or would she, I mean why were quite a few things in there (etc).

The Q&A in Silver Spring wasn't much cop--Lynch was great, very interesting and funny but it was hosted by one of the most awful people in the entire DC metro area and he got questions that boiled down to "Actresses are pretty huh?"

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Naomi Watts is the only female rabbit (voice, anyway)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

the Q&A for this film:

1. How did you shoot a movie using digital? Did you point the camera at the actors or what?

2. I like Polish composers too. Why do YOU like Polish composers?

3. How did you make this color digital motion picture? Was a camera involved? Perhaps more than one?

4. Do you like girls circle one yes no maybe

5. Was this film made using the Sony Pl508JSXminiDVcamcamcorder-corder? Should I buy one to make my thesis? Tell me about the features and the specifications, especially battery life.

6. Did you lie about your answer to number 4 circle one no yes sorta

7. Dude I want to have your babies, so what's it like, working in digital?

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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