Documentaries like this feel like staring into the abyss of my own potential future. I must keep vigilant that I do not become like Groo at his worst, yet I cannot help but admire his work ethic and compare it to mine and find myself lacking.
For all I can say about him, for all the faults this movie shows, Stephen Groo has produced more movies and short films than most of us ever will in a lifetime. They lack…
A perfectly cromulent film in many ways, but one that didn't quite rise above and defy as much gravity as it wanted to. The sets and costuming were a highlight, yet it felt to me that the film was still strangely afraid of being too colorful? At least to my eyes at my screening the colors felt desaturated and muted even in the more colorful locales, with the Emerald City standing out much more vividly than Shiz or the other…
I watched this again on a whim last night, deciding out of the blue that I wanted to immerse myself in one of my favorite pieces of Lynch media.
Today, I woke up to find out David Lynch has passed away.
In the words of the man himself, it's such a sadness. His impact and influence looms large over the entirety of media since he first exploded onto the midnight movie circle with Eraserhead. Filmmakers, video game developers, musicians, visual…
My emotional comfort three hour primal sleep paralysis nightmare.
David Lynch was an utter master at keeping you emotionally invested even as the narrative spun off into a disconnected series of vignettes and troubling dreams. Laura Dern's performance, so fearless and impactful, acts as the anchor through this descent into liminality. Her fear, her confusion, her moments of frightening menace and harshness... no one's done it like her here before or since, not to this extent.
I wasn't expecting to…
