Lynch's unbraked sadism

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David Lynch's Inland Empire, which has been shown at the New York Film Festival, is the filmmaker's "most experimental feature since Eraserhead, according to N.Y. Times critic Manohla Dargis. The story spins a familiar Lynchian fairy tale: a blond actress (Laura Dern, in a career-defining performance) lands a coveted film role and spirals down into a hallucination in which dreams become nightmares. There are whores, of course, with laughing and lurid mouths, and shadowy corridors that, in suggestively female anatomical fashion, lead to dark rooms. Mostly, though, there is Mr. Lynch, whose shards of dream logic sometimes achieve the convulsive beauty that Andre Breton wanted for surrealism and, at other times, feel like the disgorged bile of an artist who has taken the brakes off his sadism."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 6, 2006 at 12:33 PM

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jeffmcm says ...

Does this have a distributor?

Posted by jeffmcm at October 6, 2006 12:41 PM

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lesterg says ...

There were reports that Magnolia Pictures bought it, but the Times reports there's no distribution deal yet.

Magnolia would make sense since they could do a high-def day-and-date screening on HD-Net.

Posted by lesterg at October 6, 2006 12:56 PM

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tholl-yung says ...

I took the Book Meme challenge at Risky Biz on 10/4 and Andre Breton was on my list. Wow, me and Manohla.

1. One book that changed your life?
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2. One book that you have read more than once?
Nadja by Andre Breton
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
The Seinfeld Scripts: The First and Second Seasons by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David
4. One book that made you cry?
The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
5. One book that made you laugh?
The Surrender by Toni Bentley
6. One book you wish had been written?
My Biography
7. One book you wish had never been written?
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
8. One book you are reading currently?
I Wake Up Screening: What To Do Once You've Made That Movie by John Anderson and Laura Kim
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus