Inland Empire?

Polish Night Music?

Catching the Big Fish?

The Air is On Fire?

The Moby video or Gucci commercial?

Something else...?

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

rabbits by a country mile

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

It's so hard to choose!! They're all so... mediocre.

I do like Polish Night Music, and I like the Moby video (even if I mainly like it for the song, not the video).

But after MD, Lynch was on a career-high, what followed is severely disappointing to me.

 LOL  true dat!

Can I go with, parts of Inland Empire?

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

I'm on board with Rabbits.

A) That's what she said.
B) If I had a dollar for every time I heard that.
C) So's your face.

Bunch of tossers!

INLAND EMPIRE is easily superior to Mulholland...

and here i was feeling like the black sheep because i was going to say my hands down favorite post MD project is IE and my friend tp3 beat me to it. is IE really that abhorrent to all(most) of you?
tp3- i do have to contend with the "easily superior" comment. i love both films and can not say one is better than the other. could you expound a bit on why you think so?
JVSCant- is that Eno as youre avatar? its a bit bright on my eyes but the beret seems familiar.

'Tis Eno, it's true.

 Can't speak for anyone else, but for me abhorrent is too strong a word-but I don't love it. There are several reasons I can put my finger on, and quite a few that I can't. A big one for me is the way the movie is shot. Maybe I'm being superficial, but a huge part of what I love so dearly about DL's other films is the way they look. The richness of color, the exquisitely composed shots, the liquid camera moves. All that appears to have been tossed out the window with IE. The digital format leaves me cold, as does the herky-jerky camera. I get that he's exploring new territory and new techniques and I applaud that in concept, but for me something massive has been lost.

Another thing (and I readily admit that this has more to do with me than the film...for the most part) is that I'm still waiting for that "A-Ha!" moment. Not that I expect to suddenly "get" the film and have every single piece of the puzzle fall into place (that would be no fun), but I can't seem to find anything to grab onto with IE. I initially had much the same reaction to Lost Highway and felt very negative about it, but at some point I found a hook or two in the film to hang my ideas about what Lynch was getting at on. Now LH is one of my favorites, not because I think I have it all figured out (I certainly don't), but because I think I've figured out how to THINK about the movie, if that makes any sense. I'm still looking for those hooks with IE.

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

I think so. There are parts of IE that are pretty amazing. But without Mary Sweeny's magic touch, they're a fraction as powerful as an element of the whole that they could have been.

What I think William means in, that the layers of IE aren't arranged in any compelling way. MD is a kaliedescope, IE is a house of mirrors.

Even tp3 himself can't celebrate the whole of IE, according to his own words (which makes me wonder what his criticism of MD is..):

INLAND EMPIRE is my third favourite Lynch film after Fire Walk With Me and Mulholland Drive. It's never going to have mass appeal unless somebody comes up with a vaguely plausible narrative that holds everything together, but for Lynch fans who like to daydream about what things mean it's manna from (radiator) heaven. When Fire Walk With Me was released nobody had any idea what was going on. Narrative minded people ran screaming from cinemas but the rest of us lived with it and worked things out for ourselves. To a lesser extent that's also true of Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.   

The Air Is On Fire exhibition was one of the highlights of my life. I can't even put into words how exciting it was waiting for the Fondation Cartier to open, hearing the 'soundscape' CD playing as we went in and seeing the paintings for the first time. The book alone would have been worth flying to Paris for and the soundscape CD's wondrous.  

The Lime Green Set's the other highlight for me. I had everything except Industrial Symphony No. 1 and the Mystery Disc, but still considered it money well spent. I'm fed up of New Line and MK2 holding the FWWM deleted scenes to ransom and hope the Lime Green Set has made an independent release seem financially viable.

I'm not that interested in whatever's left. I liked the Gucci advert and Catching The Big Fish audiobook (read as only Uncle Dave knows how) but Dumbland bores me, I haven't got round to watching the Moby video and Polish Night Music (literally) makes me feel nauseous. Now DL has apparently stopped making films in favour of music, lamps and peace palaces I'm trying to adjust to the idea that adverts, internet videos, benefit concerts and art very few people will ever see is all there is left to look forward to.            

I'll be honest. IE actually makes me kind of angry to think about. I don't know if I'll ever watch it again.

I guess Catching the Big Fish is really the only post-MD project I was excited about. Even then, I'm more likely to reread Lynch on Lynch. I like "Ghost of Love" a lot. Um, that's about it. 

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