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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
What always sticks in my mind from the original Twin Peaks is how well the series manages to capture a subtle but pervasive atmosphere of both spiritual and immediate physical threat, especially from the point of view of women in the type of danger they can't necessarily describe but immediately recognize. Lynch's ability to intuit and communicate this experience is astonishing - it feels like an exercise in radical empathy; a deliberate effort to meditate on a specific experience he's…
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Mickey 17 2025
In the first act of the film I noticed that I was pretty much the only person in the busy theater laughing at the jokes. "Wow, tough crowd!" I thought. "I guess not everyone's into Black Comedy!" By the end the audience had warmed up and I was stone-still watching the bombastic finale with all the seriousness of a psychological horror. Was I just very emotionally fragile that day? Or was the depiction of the way alienated individuals respond to…
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Blue Velvet 1986
My first screening of Blue Velvet might have been one of the most traumatic and rewarding cinematic experiences of my life. It's a beautiful film, and there's always a baseline of pleasure to be taken in experiencing such a complete and masterful work. But trapping myself in a cinema with it felt like a harrowing and necessary act of penance for every blind eye I've turned or passive role I've taken in the suffering of those confined to the margins…
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Eraserhead 1977
Eraserhead is so sweet. It sure feels like a prototypical work of burgeoning genius and definitely like the voice of a much less mature Lynch than I'm generally familiar with, but I love it all! I love the grinding industrial nightmare soundscape, the foul, reproductive viscera, how cute everyone is when they're processing mind-bending stress. One of the my favourite moments is the family dinner scene when Henry attempts to carve his man-made chicken ("they're NEW!") but can't fill out…
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