Sorry, BOB1...I am taking it backwards, you get the rest of the films...

How does one pick 5 scenes in this film?? 

1. Nikki's "Death" - The shot of her staggering across Hollywood and Vine (right through the middle of the intersection) and the way it's lit and shot is just awesome and the way it culminates with her thowing up blood on the Walk of Fame...I love this whole sequence.

2. The kiss that frees Lost Girl and the reunion with her family (starting when Nikki enters Room 47)  Beautiful!! and the song by Chrysta Bell playing behind it is sooo moving...wonderful Lynch moment (I forgot what it was like to have a Lynch film with a happy ending, if you exclude The Straight Story).

3, The first part of the monologue Nikki gives to whom I call the Inquisitor...it's harrowing and hilarious at the same time. Lynch juxtaposing two opposing emotions in one scene is one of many things he has mastered. "What the hell happened here?"..."He come to reap what he's been sowing...."It looks like he's been sowing some heavy f-ing sh**"

4. The first time we see the prostitutes right after Nikki crosses over into Lost Girl's life...The way they are sitting around talking and then "You got to swing your hips now....snap..." I love the Locomotion dance sequence, yeah, it may be corny, but it's done in a total Lynch way, especially the way it abruptly ends and the prostitutes disappear.

5. It's so hard to pick...Still, I have to go with when Freddie asks Nikki (and Devon for money) The dialogue is hilarious and Harry Dean Stanton is just classic in this scene and I love the way Lynch goes back to it later on with Nikki and Devon watching Freddie hit some other people up for some cash later on.   

Can I get some participation on this one?         

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

1. definetly death scene

2.when laura dern confronts devon in front of his family

3. staged television spot with dianne ladd

4. nikkis husband warning devon

5. any of the confessions scenes when laura dern tells about her life after climbing all the stairs to talk to the geeky guy

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

It looks like Im waitin till the DVD.

1.  Nikki's/Sue's death scene

2.  When we find out who actually is back there (behind the scenery during the table reading)

3.  Dern (Sue) talking at the crooked glasses guy

4.  The mansion scene at the end of the movie (into the credits)

5.  Jeremy Iron's conversation with Bucky (Lynch) the lighting guy

The confrotation at Devon (Billy's) house is pretty f-ing intense, I do like that scene a lot too as is the scene with Nikki's husband warning Devon about messing around with Nikki, Great dialogue and the expression on Justin's face is terrific 

And the scene with Bucky's is hilarious!! Is it just me or did the voice of Bucky sound like David Lynch? 

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

accidental double post 

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

I haven't seen it yet. Gonna watch it this Friday when it comes out here. But I've read somewhere that there is a scene with a long speech by Laura which is kind of, let me find the words, obscene and raunchy!

I mean, wow, I am gonna love it just for that! A sort of female reversal of Mr. Eddy's mulholland dr. scene in LH!

LAURA AND DAVID, YOU ROCK!

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

I was happy with all the comedy in this movie, even though it mostly deals with one having to 'pay the price' after one's death for one's actions in life. I mean, that should weigh in with a comedic tilt, yes?

As always, it's a morality play, with good vs. evil, lots of evil shown, but good is triumphant in the end, even if the characters are decimated...

I'm VERY surprised no one else mentioned the first seconds of the film !

a total thrill. 

Indeed, i'ts so simple, but it took my attention right away from the first second, and I love that sound with the openingscredit.

But after one viewing yesterday I can't give a top5, it's even difficult for to give an opinion about the film, in a few days I will go see it again in the theatre, I have a feeling that it will grow on me.

Same as Erwin. I liked almost all the scenes each of you have mentioned.

My impression is this: Inland Empire starts out in a terrfic way, then you fall into that special middle place of its anti-structure, in which you don't know if it's about a dream with intermissions of reality and so on or whatever the f**k else. The final turning point is absolutely genious.

This is Lynch's homage to the metafilmic genre of films. I see a lot of Fellini in it (8 1/2 and City of women specifically).

Some memorable moments:

the beginning in the darkness and the title appearing;

the way Grace Zabriskie walks in the street outsife of Nikki's house and the whole meeting is spectacular;

the sex/head scene and the Nikki's start of her spiralling into the magic world of the film she's working in;

the whole death scene and the dialogue between the homeless;

the stories Nikki tells to that silent man at the desk, Laura Dern absolutely did an amazing job in portraying the disorientation of her character.

My theory on the film will bne posted in the other discussion thread.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

There are so many great scenes that it's really difficult to tell.

1. The beginning, with the blurred faces and the Axxon N. radio show.

2. Grace Zabriskie's visit.

3. The first appareance of the girls in Susan's house and the Locomotion dance.

4. Susan / Billy sex scene.

5. The final confrontation with the Phantom

6. Susan watching Nikki, Devon, Kingsley and H.D.Stanton and then disappearing into Smithie's house while Piotrek is behind the window with the green coat.

7. Laura Dern's confessions to the man with the glasses

8. Hollywood Boulevard death scene

9. The cinematography of polish scenes.

10. Rabbits

Ive actually seen the movie now and forgot to add to the lost.

1. Death scene on the walk of fame...obvious choice.

2. Closing credits.

3. Phantoms death

4. Harry Dean Stanton and his talk about animals.

5. Anything with Karolina Gruszka...shes purty.

In no particular order....

• The sex scene, with Piotrek lurking in the doorway. Awesome music, visuals and acting
• The opening credit sequence: the way it is deliberately made to look like the image has been over-projected, and the deep rumbling sound playing over the top.
• Naturally, the death scene - and the moments after when we see the crane pulling back, Nikki getting her make-up removed and being given back her handbag
• The first time (I think) we see The Phantom - when he is asking for "an opening". I just love the crazy look in his eyes when he says "so you understand, I am looking for an opening?"
• The interrogation room scene: We see those same wall panels which were used in one of my favourite intros to an episode of Twin Peaks, and the camerawork is superb and unsettling. Robert Charles Hunter's sweat-soaked nose was mesmerising!
• The scene which directly follows the image of the clown's face - Laura walks up a winding path, getting closer and closer to the camera, then suddenly lunges forward with THAT face. Petrifying.
• Any scene where Jeremy Irons says ANYTHING. He's brilliant in this movie. ("A great director....yes? Do I hear?", "what the bloody hell is going on?")
• Any scene where Harry Dean Stanton says ANYTHING. ("terrible is an inadequate description of it")
• Lost girl reunited with husband and son
• The monologue to Mr K.
• The couple of shots of the rabbits which are not from the "standard" angle
• The end credits: glorious

The way I sees it, the only Lynch films which DON'T have a happy ending are The Elephant Man, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.

FWWM and Eraserhead might be described to have "redemptive" rather than happy endings, but they still feel pretty upbeat to me, in a Lynchian kind of way. I'd say the same about INLAND EMPIRE. But Dune, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart all have undeniably happy endings.

Me first...I call dibs.

I think it was the image of her draped in the sheet, naked on the bed and crying that did it for me.

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

1.  Visiting Woman #1 (Grace Zabriskie) - love the extreme closeups of her face and her overall creepiness

2.  Locomotion - cheesy yet fun (and that one chick has a lovely set of knockers)

3.  When Laura Dern (Nicky/Sue?) starts out real small and runs toward the screen until you see a grotesque face (freaked me out the first time I saw it)

4.  When Nicky shoots the Phantom and his face morphs

5.  Nicky dying on Hollywood Boulevard with the homeless people

*enjoyed this much more the 2nd time around, ordered the soundtrack

*Jeremy Irons kicks ass

"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

1. Diane Ladd

2. Rabbits fades into the elegant sitting room

3. Nikki sees herself onscreen

4. Bucky, no doubt

5. Julia Ormond bitchslaps Laura Dern- that whole scene is so humiliating, and Billy is so cold

(a certain someone I'm fond of is in the line outside the burlesque club, so that moment gets honorable mention)