Junk Culture: A Review of David Lynch's Inland Empire.

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Saw David Lynch's new movie, Inland Empire (2006), on Saturday, 28 April, two weeks and a day after it opened in metro Detroit.

Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Dr.), not so much a love-him-or-hate-him director as he is a love-him-

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Kind of funny how various filmmakers are drawn to Proust; why him and not, say, Anthony Powell? (Digressive question[s]: did you read the first two volumes of Proust in translation or in the original? And do you think that it had an impact on your [lack of..?] enjoyment of him either way?)

With critics, you have to read/listen to enough of their reviews to get a sense as to how their likes and dislikes match up with yours; that way, even a critic whose sensibilities are diametrically opposed to yours can be useful: just form the opposite impression of whatever he or she has reviewed. But it goes without saying that it's more fun (more flattering, in a way...) to read/listen to someone whose judgment appears to mirror your own. I guess that's why Manhola Dargis's glowing review of IE in the NYT bothered me after I finally saw the movie: I find myself agreeing with her more often than not, and I simply couldn't believe that she'd been taken in by this piece of crap. But again, it took her two viewings to decide that she liked it