The most perfect marriage between sleaze and innocence cinema has seen. Terrifying but also beautiful, one of Badalamenti's finest ever soundtracks, this is Lynch at his most accessible, but still brilliant. It's all horrible details and disturbing undercurrents, manifesting in a most unlikely setting.
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Wild at Heart 1990
This is the cinematic equivalent to Sonic Youth's iconic Goo album cover. It's Lynch's fever dream, wish fulfillment road trip. And it's electric from start to finish. The soundtrack, Laura Dern, Cage's jacket, Fenn's geuinely haunting cameo, and the finest on-screen chemistry you've ever seen.
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Batman 1989
Magical adaptation that represents most of Tim Burton's best instincts. He captures a fantastical, vampiric Batman and contrasts him brilliantly with a Joker that feels very much like a Phantom of the Opera style ghoul. He seems less comfortable with action, wisely keeping those face-to-face fights to a minimum, instead dwelling on stunning framing of gothic imagery and repeated scenes of characters obsessively lingering over photographs and paintings. The casting is just incredible, and while it would have been nice…
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