teenagelobotomy

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DVD Video I have it ★★★★

29 jul 16

Essentially, this is the only great film by Aronofsky. Or at least, the only one I truly like, and that makes me tolerate his shaky cam (unlike the awful Black Swan).
Of course, the storyline isn’t original, but the ability to be moving while telling simple and already well-trodden stories is a quality that's becoming increasingly rare. Credit where it's due, and to a monumental Mickey Rourke.

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DVD Audio I have it ★★★

David Lynch: Inland Empire

20 apr 16

Disturbing, claustrophobic, epileptic, theoretical film. Impossible to decipher at a first viewing, but always on the edge of the inaccessible. A game of Russian dolls, a collection of parallel universes, cinema within cinema. Or a way for Lynch to subtly mock the audience with a film shot in digital without a script. Or all of this together, or everything opposite. An extreme experience in content, experimentalism, and length, which may please the most hardened Lynch fans (some even see it as his masterpiece), or irritate. As far as I'm concerned, it remains an indigestible hodgepodge, far from the dreamlike and heart-wrenching wonder of Mulholland Drive and the revolutionary, otherworldly power of Lost Highway.

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adrmb
11 jan 18

You ninja'd me

DVD Audio I have it ★★★★★

David Lynch: Una Storia Vera

20 apr 16

The most beautiful film across America, life, the wounds, the pain of memories. The linear flow of existence and of everything. A film that emanates humanity in every frame, one of those rare films where kindness and selflessness are something truly genuine and moving. One of the greatest masterpieces of American cinema.

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CoolOras
20 apr 16

5 to this and 3 to Inland Empire seems absurd to me. But tastes differ!
teenagelobotomy
21 apr 16

Beyond the discussion about Inland, which, as I said, I know is adored by Lynch's extremist fans but that I personally can't digest, am I underestimating A Straight Story? Underestimation is a common mistake, especially for those more connected to Lynch's surreal and dreamlike dimension. It's a mistake I made myself back in the day, but now it’s clear to me that it's one of Lynch's high points.
CoolOras
23 apr 16

I don't underestimate it; it's a great film, but it's still just a story. Personally, from Lynch's cinema, I want it to "shake" me, to disturb me, to show me the genius. Inland Empire is a film that goes beyond the concept of film, and for me, it holds much more value than a beautiful but fundamentally "normal" movie. That said, tastes differ! :)