tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post2041090901449227223..comments2024-03-05T17:26:44.559-08:00Comments on Roman's Movie Reviews and Musings: Movie Musing: The (sur)real appeal of David LynchRoman J. Martelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-71260446897012054232017-06-16T08:44:06.605-07:002017-06-16T08:44:06.605-07:00I need to explore more Jarmusch films. But Cronenb...I need to explore more Jarmusch films. But Cronenberg is certainly one of those directors I usually enjoy no matter what he does. I love his approach to storytelling and his stranger stuff always gets me thinking. "Videodrome" is one hell of a film. <br /><br />Villeneuve looks to be following a similar track so I'm certainly excited to see more from him.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-3067374072434922142017-06-14T12:05:24.749-07:002017-06-14T12:05:24.749-07:00Yeah, I'd agree. I feel we get enough homogen...Yeah, I'd agree. I feel we get enough homogenized, spoon fed movies so having someone removed from that edict is good. However, having said that Lynch and some of the other directors you have listed near the end are often admired by critics or someone that is looking for a bit more. Spielberg often hits within the mainstream at times, but he's also done films not quite fitting that structure. I might add Cronenberg to that list, along with Jarmusch, Villeneuve, Kubrick, Coen brothers, and many others. But Lynch may be high on that acquired taste spectrum--even Roger Ebert had a dislike for him as far as Blue Velvet. I'm not sure what of he thought of his later films. <br /><br />If you've ever seen any of Lynch's art, it is pretty dark, and often just as puzzling, but highly skilled. He's one of those artist that can cross boundaries from one medium to the other. I like those guys.El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-88947082293615829912017-06-12T17:57:47.325-07:002017-06-12T17:57:47.325-07:00I need to revisit "Blue Velvet". It has ...I need to revisit "Blue Velvet". It has been quite some time since I've seen the film. But I remember thinking the same thing - that in a strange way all three of those characters needed to meet and experience each other. As sick as it sounds, it does make sense why they do the things they do.<br /><br />But man does that movie rub people the wrong way. :)<br /><br />"Wild at Heart" is a blast. Maybe one of Lynch's most lighthearted pieces. And man the energy in that movie. Lynch takes the fire motif and runs with it.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-23946880499218607022017-06-11T13:15:38.409-07:002017-06-11T13:15:38.409-07:00With David Lynch you never know… change that secon...With David Lynch you never know… change that second person to first: I never know. Reality, fantasy, and dreams don’t have border fences in his movies; when seeing his images on the screen, I may not know which of those it is or from the perspective of which character. I like much of his stuff including Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart and even Dune though his more surreal films leave me with one eyebrow raised. Nonetheless I kind of get it – rather like I kind of get improvisational jazz even though it really isn’t my first choice to put on the stereo. We don’t experience the world entirely as it is; we experience it in our heads. Lynch films that about as well as anyone.<br /><br />Also, his characters are usually well motivated. It makes perfect sense (warped sense, but sense) in Blue Velvet, for example, that Dorothy would force Jeffrey to abuse her after Frank did – at least this time it is her idea and she wields the lethal power. Jeffrey finds the dark side of himself to do it, but (because he is not Frank) feels guilty about finding it.<br /><br />Lynch isn’t always my cup of tea, but there’s no reason he should be. In the arts, as in so much else nowadays, an irksome (ultimately narcissistic) tendency to conflate I-don’t-care-for-this with This-is-idiotic-bullshit has grown far too commonplace. Only sometimes are the two related. De gustibus and all that.<br />Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.com