The overall idea is actually kinda cool — though I’m not convinced that a good movie lurks beneath the final cut. The nonsensical sequence of images we ended up with is pretty fun and probably the maximum of pleasure over pain possible with this sequel. I was entertained. There was no book of shadows.
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Blue Velvet 1986
It’s a strange world, isn’t it?
Today marks the first time a death in the public eye really hit me. The intensity with which David Lynch’s work reaches into my soul always feels like he somehow knows me, better even than I know myself. I broke down crying on the way home from work, watching as power-lines and road-markings whooshed by above and below my car — symbols indelibly charged with a Lynchian energy. I realised at this moment how…
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Paths of Glory 1957
It’s been a while since I first saw Paths of Glory. I rewatched it last night as the second half of a double feature with Dr. Strangelove. I came to the screening worried that its strategy for conveying the tyranny of bureaucracy — an appeal to the moral sentiments — would simply founder in the wake of Strangelove’s absurdist comic ironism. This is somewhat true, the latter film being I think obviously on a higher plane of brilliance. Nevertheless, Paths remains powerful and sincere.…
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