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Sean O'Neal spoiled it months ago:
Absolutely.
"they get viscerally angry and upset."
Okay, now sum up Lost Highway in four words.
Reminds me of the description (I think for the song For Kate I Wait, from Pitchfork, I know) that made me want to check out Ariel Pink. Paraphrasing: It sounds like music you'd find on an unlabeled cassette tape buried in someone's closet.
As soon as I hear someone try to use "hipster" as either an insult or a meaningful description, I'm reasonably certain everything that follows will be worthless.
"Eraserhead isn't technically a horror movie"
Only 6 minutes? I really thought it would be half an hour, minimum.
"Has the entire cast been replaced again?"
Yeah, just saw a Bruce Willis interview the other day where he called Kevin Smith a "whiner."
Yeah, I'm trying to hear it in my head, and all I'm getting are his Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney impressions.
I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking it's easily his masterpiece, with Young Frankenstein close behind. It arguably deservedly won the Oscar for Best Screenplay against some of the very best films of the 60s.
@avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus Yes, it's incredible how in its extreme surreality, it captures real life feelings better than many documentaries or memoirs could.
"Do you think your notion of reality is Reality?"
The Producers?
Yes, Lynch tells this story in Catching the Big Fish, which again, I highly recommend.
I wouldn't really say the Ben Civil War stuff is good. I feel like in both cases they had essentially run out of ideas for the characters and they were at least attempting, and failing, to do something fun and different with Ben, while with James, they were trying (and succeeding) to turn his story into a dull,…
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