Mulholland Dr. is one of my favorite films ever.

PricelessHo said:

me too
the bit where the girl sings Roy Orbisons Crying (in spanish I think) is one of my favourite movie moments ever.

JustErin said:

shelly duvall cracks me up in this movie. best to forget trying to figure out the plot, and just pay attention to her stream-of-consciousness rants, because they're hilarious. i love that in every scene in which she gets in her car, she gets her dress caught in the door. i have no idea what's going on in this movie, but i giggle through it every time i watch it.

Anxiety said:

Yeah, her character made me feel really uncomfortable...great acting on her part for sure.

I so wanted to make sense of it all and thought about it for hours after seeing it...but really, I'm clueless as to what really was going on.

Mulholland Dr. is one of my favorite films ever.

JustErin said:

the only thing i could figure from it is that sissy spacek becomes obsessed with shelly duvall and steals her personality throughout the movie, and it's ironic because shelly duvall's character is such a loser and she's so clueless as to what sissy's character is up to throughout most of the movie, until it's too late. i have NO idea how the third woman is tied in, with her crazy ass hat and her swimming pool mosaics. maybe sissy and shelly are fictional in the third woman's head and they're the characters she's making in her mosaics? hell if i know. i just remember that shelly duvall's favorite color is mustard yellow.

JustErin said:

If three women made you go "huh?" then try eight!

It starts off normal but just keeps getting stranger until the end, where it's derailed almost completely. Francois Ozon never lets you down.

PricelessHo said:

That might be the only David Lynch film that makes sense to me.

PricelessHo said:

That might be the only David Lynch film that makes sense to me.

sextonseven said:

i thought "wild at heart" was pretty straightforward. believe it or not, i have kind of a tenuous grasp on what "inland empire" is supposed to be about, though i hope i never totally figure it out, because its obtuse-ness is part of what i love so much about it.

OH! and "the straight story" is pretty easy to get, too. and SUCH a sweet movie, surprisingly.
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sextonseven said:

i thought "wild at heart" was pretty straightforward. believe it or not, i have kind of a tenuous grasp on what "inland empire" is supposed to be about, though i hope i never totally figure it out, because its obtuse-ness is part of what i love so much about it.

OH! and "the straight story" is pretty easy to get, too. and SUCH a sweet movie, surprisingly.
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Anxiety said:

I haven't seen "The Straight Story" but I've wanted to see it ever since it came out. Just never got around to it, and now it's not available at any of the rental shops near me.

"Inland Empire" I've seen 3 times, and I'm almost there in figuring it out. But like you, I hope I don't ever figure it out completely, because the mindfuck factor and the confusion is half of the appeal. The deleted scenes go a long way toward putting the puzzle together more completely though.

As for "Wild At Heart" ... eh. To me, that goes hand in hand with "Cry Baby" (John Waters) as a really big disappointment from a favorite off the wall director. And they're similar in feel, to me.
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Raze said:

really? i love "wild at heart". i will admit, it DOES look dated now, but it's such a quotable movie, and i absolutely adore diane ladd in that film. and jack nance..."my dog...barks...some." and then there's good ol' crispin glover in his cameo as "jingle dell".

maybe it's not his best movie, but i think it's a lot of schlocky fun. though i'll never forget the first thing my mom said as soon as we got done watching "wild at heart" for the first time: "that movie wasn't really necessary, was it?"

Raze said:

I'm a big fan of David Lynch, but I couldn't get through Inland Empire. I was into it, but after 30 or 40 minutes it started to become completely incomprehensible, and abrasive, too.

NDRU said:

"BRUtal FUCKingk muhrder!"

How could I forget...


Return to the Valley of the Dolls (no not the orginal--this has nothing to do with that movie.

How could I forget...


Return to the Valley of the Dolls (no not the orginal--this has nothing to do with that movie.

PricelessHo said:

That might be the only David Lynch film that makes sense to me.

Imago said:

Do you mean Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls? That movie is great! Makes perfect sense to me.