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Old 26th June 2012, 09:26 PM
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Now please tell me WTF was going on in Lost Highway-was it all in his head?
I dont even think Mr. Lynch knows, that's why its so good
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Lost Highway's actually my favourite Lynch film - I love every bizarre moment of it.

As for Inland Empire, I'd advise a bit of caution when approaching this one Reaps, as it's definitely more for hardcore Lynch fans!

It's also a (very) loose sequel to the excellent Mulholland Drive, so I'd recommend you watch that one first. Happy viewing!
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I dont even think Mr. Lynch knows, that's why its so good
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Old 27th June 2012, 11:27 AM
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It's pure cinema. I've never been more terrified of a poorly lit alcove in my life etc (IE)......
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not the greatest fan of the eccentric Lynch
but BLUE VELVET to me is a masterpiece
WILD AT HEART despite some overacting by Cage was good
ERASERHEAD, LOST HIGHWAY et al are just mind****s that not even Lynch knows what there about
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Old 27th June 2012, 04:06 PM
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I always thought Lost Highway was based around "An Occurence at Own Creek Bridge" which is about a guy dreaming of escaping from prison and going home as he's being executed.

Except, as this is a Lynch, the dream is of a new life, with all the opposites of Fred's life, he's young, has better sex (or sex at all!), his life is dangerous etc, whilst the real Fred's life was boring.

I remember at the time Lynch talking about Moebian strips, where if a loop is cut and reattached upside down, the surface would carry on one one side until reaching the point of reattachment and instantly flip to the other side and carry on until reaching the split again.

Eraserhead on the other hand is a pretty simple story about the fear of not coping with growing up, love, sex and children, but obviously with a ton of surrealism in there.

That's just my interpretation of it though!
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[QUOTE=Baseball Fury;253566]I always thought Lost Highway was based around "An Occurence at Own Creek Bridge" which is about a guy dreaming of escaping from prison and going home as he's being executed.

i know Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER is based more on that story
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Old 27th June 2012, 04:59 PM
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The 'Mystery Man' is Fred's conscience, showing him what really happened.
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Old 27th June 2012, 08:30 PM
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I absolutely love Lynch and would go as far as to say that it is to him that I owe my love of cinema.

I got into Lynch as TWIN PEAKS aired on UK TV for the firm time – I was 15. I was so enamoured with the show and its eccentricities as I’d never seen ANYTHING like it before. My parent had very middle of the road tastes and I grew up watching mostly comedy and action movies. My parents soon lost interest in TWIN PEAKS but I was hooked and I set about trying to see other stuff that Lynch had done. I was aware of WILD AT HEART but would have to wait to see that as it was then yet to be released on video but I bought a copy of BLUE VELVET and loved that. It was at this time that I started watching Alex Cox’s Moviedrome and the rest is history, as I discovered more Kubrick (I’d seen THE SHINING and FULL METAL JACKET and the likes of CRONENBERG et al.

But since those days I’ve anticipated every new lynch film eagerly. I was lucky to see LOST HIGWAY (under the influence!) at an NFT (now known as BFI Southbank) and INLAND EMPIRE in the first week of release in an arthouse cinema in New York but the most surreal experience I had watching one of his films was when I saw TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME at a fleapit on Tottenham Court Road – my mate and I binked off school one dreary November afternoon and found ourselves sat in a cinema where we were the youngest audience members by about 40 years – everyone else was male, 50-something and wearing raincoats. It was proper grotty!

You either love Lynch or hate him, there really is no in between. He’s one of the few American filmmakers who have continued to make arty films that do not pander to Hollywood convention and still manages to get decent releases. His more accessible films—STRAIGHT STORY, WILD AT HEART and BLUE VELVET--are all great but it’s the abstract likes of ERASERHEAD, LOST HIGHWAY and INLAND EMPIRE that are most interesting because they epitomize what it is that Lynch is all about: no one else seems to continually capture the essence of what it’s like to experience a nightmare – the narratives need not matter, it’s all about the ride. For me, anyway. We can all speculate what they’re about and hidden meanings within them but I’ve always thought the experience as they unfold is far greater than what you get at the end.

MULHOLLAND DRIVE and TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME fit between the two types – they’re accessible but there’s also a strong leaning towards the abstract that is only hinted at in Lynch’s “mainstream” films too.

Baseball Fury: I've never seen AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE but I understand that it was quite an influence on JACOB'S LADDER, from what I've read.
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Old 27th June 2012, 08:33 PM
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The 'Mystery Man' is Fred's conscience, showing him what really happened.
I saw HOUR OF THE WOLF for the first time this year and it's clear to see that LOST HIGHWAY's Mystery Man was influenced by 'Bird Man' from Bergman's film.
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