I had to look up "miniseries" to see what the word meant. Yeah, that's it. Have you seen it? I found the concept very compelling, up until the ending which left me uncomfortably unsatisfied.
It wasn't too hard to spell his name, I just read it off the front of the box. I figure I'll take a look at Dekalog after this, as the artistic direction is so fantastic I'm sure that it'll be similar. I can also rent it for a pound at the library.
The metaphors of colour are very forefront, you're right, but due to the slow plot this grants you time to sit and look at the shot objectively.
I have Mulholand (spelling?) Drive back in Vancouver. On the inside cover of the DVD are "David Lynch's 20 Clues to Unlocking Mulholand Drive". It has things like, "notice the red lampshade, where else is it seen?". Even so, I'm still not certian about what happens in the last third of the film. Do they switch bodies? At least in Lost Highway it was very easy to follow the character(s), and as such I never had any difficulty getting that one.
That's strange. I much prefer Lost Highway to Mulholland Drive, but for precisely the opposite reason. Mulholland Drive makes too much sense and the "key" to all the mysteries is boring as hell. They don't switch bodies at the end. She just wakes up. The first part was a dream. The second part is a flashback, showing you all the things that inspired the dream
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I think I prefer Lost Highway as well, but for the reason that I had no difficulty understanding it (I also saw it in a really cool theatre). I will begin torrenting Caché today. I know if I really want to see a film I should purchase or rent it, but I am not set up to rent here other then the Library's limited selection (though it continues to surprise me, as it should) and if I purchase a film I will have difficulty viewing it in a months time upon my return to Region 1.
Well, if it's any console to Lynch's integrity - the clues just confused me further.
You're sincere. That's probably one of the major reasons Carlos enjoys your company. On a surface level, friendship is often based upon how often two people agree. It is admirable that you maintain your integrity (I don't want to use this word again, but can't think of a better one right now) in lieu of any... whatever. I just pressed backspace and accidentally shot myself three windows back. This totally destroyed any idea I was developing.
I hate when the backspace key does that. Whoever uses backspace to navigate their browser anyway? There must be a way to disable that.
In theory, you could get a region-free DVD player. I've wanted one for years, even if I only have a couple of Region 2 disks that I don't really care about anyway. I just like the idea of having the freedom to play any DVD you want.
I actually had an old DVD player that outdated region codes, and many of the cheap ones that you get at... say, Costco don't have region codes (or at least the ones I've seen). However, the trade off is my old one is broken and all the one I saw from Costco the owner had to open up the box to insert and remove DVDs as the tray broke. None of this matters though as I don't own a television and watch everything on my computer... and everything here is overpriced anyways.
Did I ever send you cLOUDDEAD? In my traumatic HD crash I lost all cLOUDDEAD and Why? and have requested on postrockxchange... and it was satisfied very well. Enjoy a slice of fruit: cLOUDDEAD - Ten
No, I haven't seen The Lost Room. I don't really know anything about it. I looked it up and found a miniseries on IMDb, so I was wondering if that was the one.
Had you never seen a miniseries before? Or you just didn't know it was called that? Basically, I think it applies to anything that is longer than a single episode (in which case it is simply a tv-movie) but shorter than a full season. A lot of Stephen King novels have been made into mediocre miniseries.
Dakalog's art direction... If I remember correctly, it's actually quite different from the three colours trilogy. Remember it was made for Polish TV in the late 1980s, as opposed to made for the big screen with French financing and big stars. But it still has an interesting esthetic, just not as slick. From what I remember, anyway.
You might also want to check out a movie called La Double Vie de Véronique, by the same director. I liked it, and it would make an interesting double bill with Mulholland Drive, actually.
I know what I miniseries is, I just couldn't read the word properly for some reason. Analogous to past mushroom trips when I look at a watch and am not able to see the time: the watch face just looks like art
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Maybe it's because I spelled it without a hyphen. Mini-series would be more easily understood. From what you tell me (and some of the typos you make) you seem to be suffering from a mild case of dyslexia. Another possibility is that you were about to have a stroke when you read the word. (I learned that one from House, sorry
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Your Cinema Scope influence sounds like my Allmusic one. I hated that my opinion was being involuntarily influenced by a source so bias and opinionated. At least you managed to make a joke of yours, mine was much more of a problem - though I did learn a lot.
"you seem to be suffering from a mild case of dyslexia" You should see me write a letter! Whole words disappear.
I don't consider my Cinema Scope influence a problem, because I already had some bias of my own when I started reading it. The reason it had such an impact on me was that it resonated with some of my own ideas and just kind of amplified them.
I like them precisely because they are biased and arrogant about it.
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Yeah, that's it. Have you seen it? I found the concept very compelling, up until the ending which left me uncomfortably unsatisfied.
It wasn't too hard to spell his name, I just read it off the front of the box. I figure I'll take a look at Dekalog after this, as the artistic direction is so fantastic I'm sure that it'll be similar.
I can also rent it for a pound at the library.
The metaphors of colour are very forefront, you're right, but due to the slow plot this grants you time to sit and look at the shot objectively.
I have Mulholand (spelling?) Drive back in Vancouver. On the inside cover of the DVD are "David Lynch's 20 Clues to Unlocking Mulholand Drive". It has things like, "notice the red lampshade, where else is it seen?".
Even so, I'm still not certian about what happens in the last third of the film.
Do they switch bodies?
At least in Lost Highway it was very easy to follow the character(s), and as such I never had any difficulty getting that one.
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Well, if it's any console to Lynch's integrity - the clues just confused me further.
You're sincere.
That's probably one of the major reasons Carlos enjoys your company.
On a surface level, friendship is often based upon how often two people agree. It is admirable that you maintain your integrity (I don't want to use this word again, but can't think of a better one right now) in lieu of any... whatever.
I just pressed backspace and accidentally shot myself three windows back.
This totally destroyed any idea I was developing.
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In theory, you could get a region-free DVD player. I've wanted one for years, even if I only have a couple of Region 2 disks that I don't really care about anyway. I just like the idea of having the freedom to play any DVD you want.
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However, the trade off is my old one is broken and all the one I saw from Costco the owner had to open up the box to insert and remove DVDs as the tray broke.
None of this matters though as I don't own a television and watch everything on my computer... and everything here is overpriced anyways.
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In my traumatic HD crash I lost all cLOUDDEAD and Why? and have requested on postrockxchange... and it was satisfied very well.
Enjoy a slice of fruit:
cLOUDDEAD - Ten
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No, I haven't seen The Lost Room. I don't really know anything about it. I looked it up and found a miniseries on IMDb, so I was wondering if that was the one.
Had you never seen a miniseries before? Or you just didn't know it was called that? Basically, I think it applies to anything that is longer than a single episode (in which case it is simply a tv-movie) but shorter than a full season. A lot of Stephen King novels have been made into mediocre miniseries.
Dakalog's art direction... If I remember correctly, it's actually quite different from the three colours trilogy. Remember it was made for Polish TV in the late 1980s, as opposed to made for the big screen with French financing and big stars. But it still has an interesting esthetic, just not as slick. From what I remember, anyway.
You might also want to check out a movie called La Double Vie de Véronique, by the same director. I liked it, and it would make an interesting double bill with Mulholland Drive, actually.
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"you seem to be suffering from a mild case of dyslexia"
You should see me write a letter! Whole words disappear.
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I like them precisely because they are biased and arrogant about it.
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