i’m thinking more about the history of experimental and avant-garde film outside of narrative cinema.
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i generally agree with @dedede69 on this - lynch is a traditional narrative filmmaker all the way down. he hasn’t really made any major works you could call abstract and almost all aspects of his work are some degree diegetic or directly symbolic (the stuff those youtube explainer analysis videos are made of), so generally when he reaches past that it comes across as clunky and literalistic. he’s not an avant-gardeist, he’s an emotional realist melodramatist who’s good at writing and directing actors and setting mood, that’s also why he’s so preoccupied with classical hollywood (for better and for worse) and why he’s so popular/relatable. i guess you could say he’s more “experimental” in the literal sense than he is avant garde, in that the strength of his filming method is its openness and flexibility (another reason why digital video suits him so well). none of this is bad! but i agree that i don’t watch him for visual abstraction or formal invention, and i don’t think he belongs to that tradition (if you can call it one).
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i always thought david lynch made american movies, not experimental ones
i read it as the evil coming from the nuclear bomb, not satan, because america. lauras not a christ child shes what the show revolves around
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new tulpa dropped
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Woke up remembering Wild Palms. What were other 90s things labelled Lynch rip offs?
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Northern Exposure
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Not 90’s but Push, Nevada: Push, Nevada - Wikipedia
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So like Lynch means like shit. This shouldn’t have been difficult.
X-Files
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X-Files has a bunch of Silence of the Lambs DNA too, which Carter really ran with for Millennium.
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Oh yeah! That Rosewell TV movie! I’m pretty sure I have a recording of that broadcast somewhere
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I hate to speak ill of my beloved local art theater that just closed, but the first time they showed fire walk with me in recent memory, they showed that version with the really bad audio mix and no subs for the whole Canada section. Also I took my mom.
Hopefully you get a good version
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was trying to remember if the character of Tammy did anything significant in the series and came across this Vanity Fair interview where the actress defends the ogling of her character with “ok but have you seen women tho”:
I wanted to get your read on one Agent Preston scene at the end of Episode 4, where she walks away and the camera follows her as Agents Cole and Rosenfield look on and comment on her appearance appreciatively. What does that mean for you?
I have to admit—I’m personally kind of also a lover of the feminine form, and have almost, like, driven off the road looking at a woman on a bicycle. I have the same thing within me. And so when I was reading the script, you know, and Tammy walks off, I was like, “Oh my God, I get to walk off?” It never occurred to me that people might take it in a different way. I myself have always had really great father figures and personal, sensual, healthy relationships in my life and with myself. So I thought this was just a sweet moment. Tammy is such a badass, and is also dressed a certain way. She may be sensitive to her power as a woman, but her power as a woman is not what is at the forefront of who she is. It’s the power of her mind, and how she can figure things out and work a room. She’s just kind of built how she’s built, and she knows what she knows, and it all works together to be, you know, a pretty powerful force.
And I think women get to appreciate the human form, and it’s not seen as being lascivious or objectifying. Like maybe if there was a man who was ogling a beautiful woman—like I do sometimes—it might be taken the wrong way, but because I’m a woman who sees it as like appreciating, you know, art of a form. I see it as a compliment. At the end of Episode 4, it was like a bunch of concrete, and then you’ve got a woman walking away. Seemed like the natural thing to do, but I’m kind of a weirdo.
i mean fair enough i guess
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Chrysta Bell did a free show at a museum here a couple months after the show ended, and she was handling merch herself so we ended up talking to her a bit since there wasn’t really a line. She was extremely friendly and complimented us on our outfits.
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Anonymous said…
I worked for a retailer that sold these in 1989, I actually discovered the cause and subsequent workaround for a glitch in these units and contacted Sharp about it, they had one of their product developers call me and I explained what I had discovered. A couple weeks later one of the muckity-mucks at Sharp sent my employer a letter on their letterhead thanking me for solving their problem, the store manager later gave me the letter to keep. I then felt I wanted to have one of the units to keep with the letter, so I bought one and still have it in nearly mint condition and have played with a few times to show people how they work. What is really kind of neat is you can use them to circumvent some PBX systems that bar long distance calls or calls to certain numbers, you just put the number in the auto-dialer, put it over the mouth-piece and press the dial button. You can even program in password entries and outside line access prefixes as well as whatever pauses you need to in between the various numbers, extensions, and passwords. It’s a pretty slick device.
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Ask Lee about John Carpenters Vampires!
When Ray Wise spoke here at a FWWM screening a couple years back you know I asked him about Reaper!
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