A lot of promising debuts wear their inspirations on their sleeve, but Kogonada has refined tastes.

I feel like she took a lot of words to write that movies are full of lies. and it won't bother you unless you know and the more you know about whatever it is, the more it will bother you. you can't go to the imdb boards anymore, but trust me, it was filled with guys arguing about the exact type of helicopter or why…

maybe it's me, but i feel like people didn't watch the original series or didn't get it or something. did anyone think "how's annie?" was a satisfying ending 26 years ago? because i was there and it definitely was not, at least in the traditional sense. i mean, sure now, it's fine, with hindsight and everything,…

which DFW story is that?

and on tos there were two diaries. hmm.

i didn't like On The Air. i didn't watch it. i don't think i made it through the first episode. what i'm saying is, you're not obligated to watch this if you're not enjoying it. and i feel like a lot of people feel like they have some kind of obligation to watch this to the end even though they're not liking it. …

I don't buy it.

i think it's more frost not having as much (any) influence anymore, so we revert to the themes lynch has always been about. i have no basis for this belief, it's just a feeling i have.

his hands fought his foot to a standstill

2) the central figure of the original twin peaks was a coke snorting prom queen prostitute. i think lynch's whole career is one that posits that no matter the veneer, life is always dirty and sordid below the surface (e.g., the opening of blue velvet.) he's not doing anything new, thematically. at least not imo.

good job, i like that reading.

was there a blue rose in the bouquet in miriam's hospital room?

"Listen to your friend Billy Zane, he's a cool dude!"

not slow, not slow. you're slow.

it took me a few beats to get the joke

Knew she was headed straight for the Smirnoff

Cole is a smooth operator

the story is that anthony hopkins goes through his scripts, finds his role's parts and writes "NAR" next to the parts that required no acting ("no acting required.")

during the scene with cole's french friend, i felt like i could hear
albert/miguel thinking, "you're killing me. literally killing me. and
now i'm dead. you're watching this, but i'm dead, because this just
killed me."

Is it too late to be Richard Horne leaving town? Or too early to be Dark Coop arriving?