i must see this movie.

[chronovore]

You know a lot more than you think | The Japan Times Online:

A man and a woman are glimpsed, in murky black-and-white images, in a Polish hotel room, their faces mosaiced out. "You want to fuck me?" she asks. "Shut up and take off your clothes," he answers. "I'm frightened." she says. Cut to full color and a girl wrapped in a red sheet, crying, and watching TV. Enter into her television; it's a strange, twisted kind of sitcom with three human-size rabbits sitting in a queasily colored 1950s-style living room. Their conversation consists of nothing but cryptic nonsequiturs: "Who could have known?" "What time is it?" "I'm going to tell them some day." Each utterance is met with raucous canned laughter. One rabbit walks out the door on the set; he enters an ornate room where two Polish thugs are having a conversation, and then he disappears.

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[ferricide.livejournal.com]

ah. inland empire. i have a feeling it will be fail, but interesting fail. if i can just free my mind of the craving for narrative (not easy for me) then maybe i'll dig it.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

You mean "fail for you" or "fail financially"? I suspect it will not fail financially, though Lynch seems to have entirely given up on appealing to a mainstream audience, for which I am very happy.

[ferricide.livejournal.com]

i mean it will be an unwatchable pile of shit, to put it in the most uncharitable terms.

but also from the commercial perspective, in even the most limited sense, it's over three hours and he's touring it himself, produced it himself. laura dern doesn't even know how many characters she played. it's not a movie that can ever get a wide release. even an arthouse one, really. my expectation is of an elegant disaster.

i am not a big lynch fan, so when he starts getting really lynchy, i start to roll my eyes, and this is like the lynchiest thing ever.