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i feel like david lynch is directing my life because nothing makes any fucking sense

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Lynch on frequent collaborator Dean Hurley in the DVD special features: "I really don't like Dean as a person but he's a fantastic sound man."

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the only thing more surreal than this film is the fact that Terry Crews was in it

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"I'm trying to tell you so's you'll understand how it went. The thing is, I don't know what was before or after. I don't know what happened first, and it's kinda laid a mindfuck on me."

Inland Empire is the most experimental and nonlinear of David Lynch's already experimental and nonlinear body of work. The fact that the most popular review of it here on LB at the moment is just a question mark says a lot about how accessible it is (i.e. not at all). The easiest way to describe it is as a movie about an actress who takes a role that makes her begin to question and then eventually lose her sense of the difference between performance…

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BRUTAL FUCKING MURDER.

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David lynch had $10, a digital camera, and a dream

Review by Muriel ★★★★★ Liked

i am laura dern looking confused for three hours. i am also harry dean stanton showing up for ten minutes just to say that he likes dogs and to steal money from anyone he could

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LA really do be like this

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An underdiscussed theme of Lynch’s work is performance — not “film acting” but the ritual gussying up our daily interactions, our developed personae, our “bits.” This manifests intriguingly in the way John Merrick is made a spectacle and his lonely personal tragedy coping with that fact; it’s true in the way the nuclear Palmer family tries to hide violence and pain behind the ceremony of suburban harmony; it’s especially true in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy wholesomeness with which Jeffrey and Sandy pursue impossible justice; it’s true in the body-switching of Lost Highway; it’s true in the messianic realization of Paul Atreides as a chosen one; it’s even true in the multiple Dales in The Return serving as these…

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Saw the premiere of the restoration at IFC. My IQ dropped to zero. Packed house and after everyone filed out of the theater I continued to walk at “200 people leaving a theater at once through one door” speed for like 4 blocks before realizing I didn’t know where I was going I had just started walking in a random direction.