There's a novelty to watching David Lynch's Dune, a film notoriously plagued by production issues, multiple cuts and an attempted melding of an auteur's sensibility with big budget film making. However that novelty exists mainly in the film's reputation, rather than in practice. Rewatching this film prior to watching the new version a month or so ago, I can't help but feel that this film has ultimately suffered a fate worse than infamy. Rather, it has suffered indifference.
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The fabled Snyder Cut of Justice League has finally hit the web and it has engendered...feelings. Regardless of your stance on the various points surrounding the production of either film--from the continued allegations of abuse hurled against Joss Whedon to the hive-mind mentality and toxicity surrounding some of the Snyder-Cut's twitter following--the question of whether or not this is a superior film to the theatrical cut is ultimately what matters from a film perspective.
The answer to that question is…
During the mid 1990s, studios were tripping over themselves to try and duplicate the so-called Disney formula. Even the previously artful and independent Don Bluth had sold out to copy this formula, with little to no success.
So enter Warner Bros studios and there take on the King Arthur legends...err...medieval story that happens to have King Arthur as a side character. This film copies the Disney formula from frame 1, right down to the songs (everyone gets one, from the…
I'm increasingly of the mind that every David Lynch film is an experience unto itself; a window into a surrealist landscape that defies all attempts at definition or boundaries. Lynch confounds even the most ardent of cineaste's, and yet he is beloved by many for that very reason. And no other film defies explanation quite like Mulholland Drive.
A dream-like film noir on the power of movies (at least, that's my take on the affair), Mulholland Drive is a film…
