Tag: Inland Empire
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This Is the Most Unnerving Scene in a David Lynch Movie
Throughout his long and distinctive filmmaking career, David Lynch has offered no shortage of unsettling, frightening, and downright confusing moments. From the reveal of the deformed “baby” in Eraserhead, to the homeless figure jump scare in Mulholland Drive, to just about any time Dennis Hopper appears in Blue Velvet, Lynch has fueled more than a…
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The David Lynch Film That Even the Stars Don’t Know What It’s About
After a successful breakthrough with Mulholland Drive, director David Lynch appeared to find a way to communicate his avant-garde approach to a mainstream audience. This all came crashing down when everything jumped up a notch with his next and most recent film, Inland Empire. Taking the non-linear stye to new heights (or lows), it was…
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David Lynch Once Made a Cartoon and It’s Weird as Hell
In David Lynch’s long, illustrious, and eccentric filmmaking career, he has only experimented with animation on a handful of occasions. He used the mode in a couple of his short films as well as in some of the most bizarre or creepiest moments in Twin Peaks and Inland Empire. However, his most straightforward and extended…
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Eraserhead Ending Explained: A Surrealist Nightmare About The Anxieties Of Fatherhood
“Believe it or not, ‘Eraserhead’ is my most spiritual film,” said surrealist auteur David Lynch in an interview, and this moment has become a meme template over the years. When asked to elaborate, the director smiled and simply said no in the most David Lynch way, emphasizing his philosophy of subjective interpretation and a refusal…
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Justin Theroux Says Even David Lynch Didn’t Know What Was Going on During His ‘Mulholland Drive’ Scenes
David Lynch is notorious for his lightning-in-a-bottle approach to directing actors on set, often keeping them as shrouded in mystery as he is about the real meaning behind a given scene. Such was the case for Justin Theroux, who talked about making 2001’s “Mulholland Drive” during a recent sit-down with IndieWire’s Ben Travers in honor…
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David Lynch Netflix Project, Working Title ‘Wisteria,’ in the Works — Report
Rumors are swirling around a new David Lynch project in the works, and at Netflix. As observed in industry trade Production Weekly, an untitled David Lynch project with the working title “Wisteria” is set to begin production in May 2021. The publication notes longtime Lynch collaborator Sabrina S. Sutherland as a producer, and that the…
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Mark Duplass Goes Full David Lynch and Launches One-Man Fyc Campaign for Ray Romano
David Lynch once launched a one-man awards campaign for Laura Dern’s “Inland Empire” performance. At the cross streets of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea in Los Angeles, Lynch famously sat in a director’s chair in between a cow and an Fyc banner for Dern. While not as strange, Mark Duplass has gone full Lynch this…