Film Mulholland Drive

Nobby style said:
My favourite "trite" part is where Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern are walking on the sidewalk and all of a sudden he starts doing the Chickenwalk. Classic Lynch, and you can be sure the Hollywood suits would´ve cut that scene onetime had they gotten anywhere near that film.

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Characters suddenly breaking out into weird dances and walks, it's such a simple yet genius staple of his.
 
MD is a movie that will give you different interpretations if you watch it again and again. Quite literally a confusing movie

If you didn't like it, wouldn't recommend Burn After Reading
 
I'm not sure if there is much great storytelling going on in MD or even if the story or script really hold together too well. Certainly the popular theories regarding the meaning of the film are not particularly interesting to me. I could certainly see how an analytically minded viewer might dislike the film. On a surface level scenes feel disparate and part of a larger story that is never shown.

But I think it's an absolute masterpiece of film making. I can't think of any film that crafts such atmosphere and tension, that marries visuals and sound to manipulate the viewer. The Lynch/Badalamenti soundscapes have never been bettered.

The diner scene maybe the one moment that got me really interested in cinema. It's the most creeped out and unsettled I have ever felt during a film. And it feels like a nightmare. Not a filmed nightmare, with spooks or surrealist imagery but that freudian uncanny, stomache turning, sweat inducing, claustrophobic nightmare. Dali and Bunuel are great and all but I've never seen anything that captures dream logic/sensation like Mullholland. The Coffee scene, the cowboy, the audition, scene after scene of disturbing, thrilling cinema.

If you don't feel it, deep in your fecking bones, then I'm not sure how much else there is to get from the film. As an overall work of art/fiction/film I'd take Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Lost Highway over it but as a demonstration of craft, it's unmatched.
 
Nobby style said:
Besides Dune being a total failure, I thought his most inaccessible, and worst effort, was his last one, Inland Empire. Did not enjoy it.
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Had to turn IE off. Just couldn't get into it in any way, even hated the way it was filmed.
 
This is on Prime video if anyone feels like watching/rewatching, might go back to it myself soon because I can't remember half the scenes people are talking about (other than those ones).
 
lem8sh said:
Gonna watch it again tonight. Now that I have a better grasp of what the feck is happening.
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You're only here for the lezzing.
 
Grinner said:
Dune really needs a remake. It could be done really well i.e. by someone other than Lindelof/Abrams.
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The miniseries ain't half bad. But then again I am a fan of the books so it probably clouds my judgement.

The Children of Dune miniseries was actually halfway decent.
 
dumbo said:
I'm not sure if there is much great storytelling going on in MD or even if the story or script really hold together too well. Certainly the popular theories regarding the meaning of the film are not particularly interesting to me. I could certainly see how an analytically minded viewer might dislike the film. On a surface level scenes feel disparate and part of a larger story that is never shown.

But I think it's an absolute masterpiece of film making. I can't think of any film that crafts such atmosphere and tension, that marries visuals and sound to manipulate the viewer. The Lynch/Badalamenti soundscapes have never been bettered.

The diner scene maybe the one moment that got me really interested in cinema. It's the most creeped out and unsettled I have ever felt during a film. And it feels like a nightmare. Not a filmed nightmare, with spooks or surrealist imagery but that freudian uncanny, stomache turning, sweat inducing, claustrophobic nightmare. Dali and Bunuel are great and all but I've never seen anything that captures dream logic/sensation like Mullholland. The Coffee scene, the cowboy, the audition, scene after scene of disturbing, thrilling cinema.

If you don't feel it, deep in your fecking bones, then I'm not sure how much else there is to get from the film. As an overall work of art/fiction/film I'd take Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Lost Highway over it but as a demonstration of craft, it's unmatched.
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Agreed. The story might not hold up as well but this was a master of his craft at the peak of his powers.

Reading up a bit on Inland Empire:

Lynch shot the film without a complete screenplay. Instead, he handed each actor several pages of freshly written dialogue each day.
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Explains a lot how it turned out like it did.
 
Mrs Smoker said:
Cafe ever had movie nights?
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I once watched a really weird film at the same time as Nilssy when my wife had locked me out on the balcony and I was completely smashed. That film would've fecked with my head under normal circumstances, but on that night specifically, it was a bad moment.

We should all watch Mulholland Drive tonight!
 
Rooney in Paris said:
I once watched a really weird film at the same time as Nilssy when my wife had locked me out on the balcony and I was completely smashed. That film would've fecked with my head under normal circumstances, but on that night specifically, it was a bad moment.

We should all watch Mulholland Drive tonight!
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:lol:
 
lem8sh said:
I thought that Mulholland Drive was supposed to be some kind of classic? One of the worse movies I have ever seen. Typical David Lynch incoherent bollocks.
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I felt the same :lol: I really tried, but i wasnt able to get any glimpse of a plot. And even if i watch it as "the pictures and atmosphere are great" i cant say that it is a great movie. Never understood why this movie is so high rated.
 
R.N7 said:
Whew, it still resonates. What did you think @Rooney in Paris ?
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I got to about 1h40 of the film and stopped it then, I wasn't feeling well and was shattered. Will finish it this evening, even though I don't like stopping a film in the middle.

I loved it up until there, some scenes are incredibly brilliant and there's an eerie feeling about it all which is very nice. I'm looking forward to finishing it.
 
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