Mulholland Drive - theories please.

*REALLY* late to the table on this, but I finally saw this film this week -- and the Winkie's scene is *STILL* creeping me out.

still enjoying my chemical romance?

that scene always reminds me of DuPar's

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I saw this for the second time a few weeks ago and have now renounced my Moebius strip theory.

Remember that comedian on the Dr. Katz show who was making fun of gamers who sit in their houses all day? "How ya doin?" "Still looking for the blue key!"

Crazy how that fits with this movie.

this was on tv on saturday, and i thought it was some melrose-place like tv show for the first hour.

http://www.ultimatedallas.com/backstage/shower2.gif

the apt where they find the body of 'diane selwyn' is a few blocks away from my place.

http://a996.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/48/l_1e5df8e284ea606b23d861dfc52035c3.jpg

dude

Yeesh.

bell_labs, was it on KRON? I was wondering how they'd edit <i>those scenes</i>.

It kind of was some melrose-place like tv show for the first hour.

i don't know, i think it was on the CW or something? they must have edited out a bunch of sexy stuff. it didn't click with me that it was "actually" a david lynch movie until the part with extended acapella roy orbison song.

what does CW stand for?

CW = former WB, i have no idea what it stands for

It's a David Lynch movie from the moment the lights go down and the Angelo Badalamenti strikes up.

Mrs. Dancer thinks it's "Cunt Watch"

Yeah, I saw it on Channel 9 here, and I gather I missed some steamy girl-on-girl action and a most unsexy masturbation scene in which Naomi Watts basically hatefucks herself (or so I'm told by my neighbor). '

Still, I'm mightily creeped out by the film.

those scenes are key

also, urgent

hairpie blurred out for DVD
also: Lynch's one-chapter-only insistence basically resulted in a DVD that now no longer plays past the first hour or so. awesome :(

it's Lynch's Lovesexy.

When I think of the glory days of the internet that salon article usually comes to mind first. WE'RE DOIN IT GUYS! WE'RE SOLVING MULHOLLAND DRIVE!

thats weird

That film is weird and nobody last century would have convinced their editors to let them analyze it.

what?

those scenes are key

I see what you did there.

Chaki I was half kidding about the glory days. All the same no mainstream print media would ever devote so much space to a Lynch dissection.

you've obviously never read Cinemafantastique!

we need to watch this every now and then

Ya gotta love the man.

is Cinemafantastique still around?

i met lynch once, really sweet guy, he was very patient with my drunken fanboy friend

you always talk in the sec person about yrslf? ;-)

He came into my office at my last job. Evidently, he's "really into cows" at the moment.

still never seen this movie, because it is not part of the Friday the 13th series

fair enough.

It will be when Freddy vs. Betty comes out

that youtube clip is great

I guess all the girl-girl kissy scenes are completely removed from bowdlerized broadcast cuts?

I still can't look/think about that homeless Trent Reznor guy without a ton of anxiety.

likewise. As one reviewer said, it gets in your head and STAYS THERE. Although now I'll never look at Trent Reznor the same way again.

I had a DVD of the original TV pilot version - it was ok, didn't have the atmosphere of the movie at all. Maybe would have worked for Twin Peaks fans, though.

this movie is way overrated, i was so disappointed when i finally saw it. "blue velvet" is light-years better.

Inland Empire is a movie about the cursed production of a film. the modern film is a remake of another film that was attempted many years ago and left unfinished. the act of at of the modern production opens some sort of portal that connects the timelines.

i'm sure when he explained this to the financiers it was like that one scene in MD!

the act of at of the modern production opens some sort of portal that connects the timelines.

word barf, by me, zs

i just meant that when they go about filming the remake it awakens the curse and the timelines connect

i don't actually know that it's a curse, but the point is that bad things happened during the old filming, and now bad things are happening again

yeah I would think that's fairly straightforward...? there are of course a number of scenes that don't seem to connect but whatever

i'll stop talking about IE on the MD thread but i think it's a really really rewarding movie to watch multiple times, especially within a few weeks of each other when you can remember the details and see things near the beginning of the movie the second time around that you would not have took notice of before. but since it's 3 hours long and incredibly scary and bleak for so many of those minutes, it's bound to be unseen. it's a bit challopsy but it's my favorite thing by DL

I don't think that op is at all chall. MD, IE, and Eraserhead all vie for first with me depending on my mood.

(And The Grandmother.)

now THAT is challopsy, although the grandmother is definitely the best of his early work. :)

i live about a five minute walk from the Mulholland Drive cottage apartments. no rotting corpses on the premises as far as i know.

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/ScenesFromMovies/MulhollandDrive4.jpg

just seeing that pic creeps me out

the sound design & mixing in MD is incredible... that distorted jet engine sound that comes in right when Betty and the oldies pop up out of focus and overexposed in front of the jitterbug dance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MLMLvSqT6g