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Marilyn Monroe Comes to Chicago, 23 Skidoo

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Curtis White, Edwin S. Porter, Jeff Koons, Grant Wood, Billy Wilder, Chicago, Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, Forever Marilyn, Seward Johnson, What Happened on 23rd Street New York City, Pioneer Court, Flatiron Building, American Gothic, kitsch, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, Daniel Edwards, Rockefeller Center, Diego Rivera, Man at the Crossroads, Lee Lawrie, Cows on Parade, Twenty-three Skidoo, Daniel Burnham on July 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »

So now there’s a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe standing by Tribune Tower, on Michigan Ave: Describing it, the Chicago Tribune writes: Marilyn Monroe, as a 26-foot-tall statue in her famous subway-grate stance from “The Seven Year Itch” pose [sic]. Dubbed Forever Marilyn, the sculpture by New Jersey-based artist Seward Johnson will live in Pioneer [...]

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, all films Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth, Joseph Mankiewicz, Thor, and superhero movies (every one)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, A Simple Plan, All About Eve, Ang Lee, Anthony Hopkins, Asgard, Batman Returns, Beta Ray Bill, Brian Blessed, calypso, Carmelo Bene, CGI, Chris Hemsworth, claustric, comics, Darkman, David Lynch, détournement, Dead Again, Diabolik, Eric the Viking, Frank Langella, Galactus, Geneviève Bujold, George Lucas, greenscreen, Grigori Kozintsev, Hamlet, Harold Pinter, Henry V, Hulk, Ichi the Killer, J.J. Abrams, Jack Kirby, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Tourneur, Jane Campion, Jeremy M. Davies, John Gardner, John Milius, Joseph Mankiewicz, Kenneth Branagh, Kirby dots, Krull, Kuleshov Effect, Last Life in the Universe, Laurel Canyon, Lawrence of Arabia, Loki, Love Me Tonight, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Masters of the Universe, Mel Gibson, motion capture, Myrna Loy, Night of the Hunter, Norse mythology, Odin, On Moral Fiction, One Hamlet Less, Paul Verhoeven, Peter Jackson, Richard Kelly, Robert MItchum, Roger Ebert, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, Sam Raimi, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Senses of Cinema, Shakespeare, Showgirls, Sleuth, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, superheroes, Superman II, Superman the Movie, Tadanobu Asano, Tales of Asgard, The Avengers, The Bad Sleep Well, The Box, The Lord of the Rings, The Mighty Thor, The Phantom Menace, The Portrait of a Lady, Thor, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Stoppard, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Wilkes-Barre, Willow on May 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »

[You want to read the earlier installments, and we want to help you: Part 1, Part 2] [Drumming our fingers on the tabletop, humming along to Debbie Gibson, we contemplated just walking out on our waitress, when Jeremy remembered a Payday he had in his pocket. Passing it back and forth, we resumed our conversation.] [...]

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Malick’s Tree of Life wins the Palme D’Or and a great look at Lynch and Mulholland Drive

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cannes Film Festival 2011, David Lynch, Mulholland Drive, Terrence Malick, Tree of Life on May 23, 2011 | 29 Comments »

Tree of Life opens this Friday in the United States. Wonderful behind the scenes footage of Lynch orchestrating Mulholland Drive:

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Happy Year of the Rabbit!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Wallace Stevens on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Gung Hay Fat Choy! I missed Wallace Stevens week last fall because of a hectic schedule, but here’s “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” to celebrate the occasion: The difficulty to think at the end of day, When the shapeless shadow covers the sun And nothing is left except light on your fur— There was the [...]

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Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AKJAK, animutation, Billy Joel, Brian Eno, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, cinema, David Bordwell, David Lynch, détournement, Film Art, Flash animation, Frank Film, Frank Mouris, George Lucas, James Earl Jones, Joseph Cornell, Judson Laipply, Kanye West, Kristin Thompson, Len Lye, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lumière Brothers, Mike Stoklasa, Neil Cicierega, Onion AV Club, René Viénet, Roger Ebert, scott mccloud, Situationist International, Stan Brakhage, Star Wars, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Edison, Understanding Comics, Vader Sessions, Weezer, YouTube on January 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »

In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would include not only movies and short films, but also music videos, commercials, TV programs, experimental film and video, installation art, video games, Flash animations, animated gifs, and even “nonelectrical” forms of moving images, such as [...]

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Schrödinger’s Laura

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, David Lynch, Dorothy Adams, Gene Tierney, Inception, Judith Anderson, Laura, Lost, mnemonics, narrative, Otto Preminger, plot, Roger Ebert, Schrödinger's cat, Twin Peaks, Vera Caspary, Vincent Price, X-Men on December 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I had a stray thought recently about Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 noir Laura (1944), based on Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel of the same name. The film’s first half revolves around the murder of the title character, although of course it’s more complicated than that. And I’d like to argue that it’s slightly more complicated than [...]

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Month of Gratitude: Thanks, Log Lady!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, David Lynch, John Madera, Log Lady, Twin Peaks on November 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »

From Twin Peaks, Episode 10 (2003): “Letters are symbols. They are building blocks of words which form our languages. Languages help us communicate. Even with complicated languages used by intelligent people, misunderstanding is a common occurrence. We write things down sometimes–letters, words–hoping they will serve us and those with whom we wish to communicate. Letters and words, calling [...]

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More on Inception: Shot Economy and 1 + 1 = 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ace in the Hole, average shot length, Barry Salt, Billy Wilder, Blue Velvet, Christopher Nolan, cinemetrics, David Bordwell, David Lynch, détournement, Edgar Wright, Ellen Page, Eraserhead, George Lucas, Inception, Jane Campion, Kirk Douglas, Kristin Thompson, L.A. Story, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Michelangelo Antonioni, Nouvelle Vague, One Plus One, Peter Jackson, Sam Shepard, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shutter Island, Situationist International, Sympathy for the Devil, The Lord of the Rings, The Portrait of a Lady, The Rolling Stones, Thelma Schoonmaker, Viktor Shklovsky, Zabriskie Point on October 4, 2010 | 12 Comments »

Some good questions came up in the comments section of my lengthy Inception critique (“Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception“), and I thought it made the most sense to respond to them with a new post. So let’s wade back into Limbo, shall we…

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David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Georgia Coffee Ads

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Georgia Coffee, Twin Peaks on May 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Agent Cooper’s not the only one stuck in the Black Lodge. From LynchNet: These commercials were done for the Japanese canned coffee, Georgia. The series was set in Twin Peaks and featured many of the cast from the series. In the ads, a Japanese man searches for his missing wife. Each commercial added more clues [...]

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Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew & Lana Wachowski, Andy Warhol, Arthur Penn, Blake Edwards, Brian De Palma, Bullet-Time, David Lynch, Douglas Gordon, Dziga Vertov, Eadweard Muybridge, Erik Satie, Godfrey Reggio, Interpol, Jean Cocteau, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Vigo, John Woo, Joseph Cornell, Kar Wai Wong, Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Maya Deren, overcranking, Pixies, René Clair, Rouben Mamoulian, Sam Peckinpah, slow motion, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Macmillan, Time-Slice, undercranking, Velouria, Wes Anderson, Zack Snyder, zoopraxiscope on March 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly due to my general interest in how time works in narrative, and in brevity and stasis (and “the ongoing”). Slow motion is created by presenting film footage at a slower rate than it was shot [...]

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Nick Antosca’s Best of 2009

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blake Butler, Brand New Cherry Flavor, Bret Easton Ellis, Clive Barker, Daphne du Maurier, David Lynch, Don't Look Now, James Ellroy, James Hogg, Nick Antosca, Rebecca, Scorch Atlas, Teatro Grottesco, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Thomas Ligotti, Todd Grimson on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Because my reading is so divorced from the calendar (I can’t even remember what came out this year), I’m going to just list a couple things I “discovered” this year, i.e. books or writers that I didn’t know existed before 2009 and which I now love.

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Top Films of the Decade

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Todd Field on December 18, 2009 | 31 Comments »

Robert Altman and a happy Shelley Duvall before she met Kubrick In March 2002 I woke up one morning in a trailer in the south of France, near the city of Carpentras. I worked on a fully organic farm (nothing mechanical, horse-drawn tills). There were no entertainment devices, save a transistor radio that picked up [...]

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Tom Drury Film!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Tom Drury on November 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Mediabistro just announced that David Lynch will be backing a movie made from a story Tom Drury published in the New Yorker. As someone who loves Tom Drury, this is great news. And as someone who loves Lynch, I’m hoping he chose to back the film because the director shares his diabolical vision.

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Lars von Trier’s Slippery, Sloppy Antichrist

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 500 Days of Summer, Antichrist, B.F. Skinner, Bach's Cello Concertos, Bjork, Blue Velvet, Breaking the Waves, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dancer in the Dark, David Lynch, Dogville, Duplicity, Gerhardt Ritcher, Ingmar Bergman, Inland Empire, John Cassavetes, Lars von Trier, Martin Scorsese, Michael Haneke, Nicole Kidman, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Willem Dafoe on November 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Lars has made some very good movies in his time. Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville are all examples of exciting, provocative cinema. And now comes this–thing. I’m very mixed about this motion picture. Not torn up, not oozing, like after Eyes Wide Shut. There are some beautiful images in this film, [...]

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