“The movies are like a machine that generates empathy.”
-Roger Ebert
“I agree!”
-me
That all that evil and horror grows out of some kind of love(?)…..idk this movie absolutely haunts me but I can’t stop coming back.
Nice to see the Eraserhead baby all grown up and doing okay.
Tough to find, but you can watch it (and seemingly a whole lot of other good stuff) here. Part of me doesn’t want to watch all of these shorts because then I won’t have any new Lynch to experience ever again. But fuck that part of me. Baby.
I loved this movie! I did have a panic attack outside the theater afterward and passed out chin-first on concrete in the middle of a circle of friends and acquaintances, shattering my two front teeth into powder on the sidewalk. But the first thought I had when I woke up? Ayo Edebiri was so funny in that movie! Haven’t laughed this hard or this much in a theater in as long as I can remember. This dental bill is going to cost so much.
Feels like Scorsese is trying at every turn to deny the audience the conventional experience of watching a movie, especially a Scorsese movie. For all of its beautiful shots and drama, there’s not a lot of what you’d think of as ~movie moments~ because there’s no room made for that kind of flash. There’s no shine box scene, no whodunit tension, no big chase, no fulfilling character arc. Everyone shows you who they are from the start, and then they…