[Will_B]

I love that we won't have any definitive answers for this film. It's been awhile since a film had me wondering and talking after I saw it, so I've enjoyed hearing this discussion. Jon, as it happens there is a Korean DVD, not a bootleg, which has a ten minute making-of, and a 4 or 5 minute interview with some of the cast; I've just ordered it from some shop on ebay and it is sold fairly often there if you do a search. As I say I am pretty sure it is not a bootleg, but I'll know more in a couple weeks.

I too wish they had featured some info about the television version of it. Would have been great to see Naomi in a weekly series! Anything else of hers reccommended?

[JonZ]

I changed my mind about the Monster. I do think its represents Diane.

Just as the Old Couple represent her Innocence, the Monster represents what shes become - a monster.

[Seth Paxton]

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Is this just Lynch enjoying something, so he explores it again?

Well this is certainly a common occurance not just with directors, but with artists in general. That's why I don't automatically hate remakes or retreads. It's not always about money, and even when it is to the producers the director might still have something else in mind that drives him to explore a style, theme, character again.

Sometimes when you create a look you like or a sound you like or a character you like, you as an artist want to interact with that again, no different than an appreciative audience wants more.

I find it to be as natural as wanting to "try something new" actually. It doesn't mean I have to accept their effort as good, but I can certainly appreciate their reasoning being better than "sell out" or "can't think of anything new". That might be true sometimes, but it's definitely not true all the time.

[Morgan Jolley]

JonZ-

OMG THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! THANK YOU!

I'm sorry, I just love this movie and what you said makes a LOT of sense and just gets me really happy. Thank you!

(if the same thing was said before in this thread, sorry I missed it, I just looked in this thread for the first time in a long while)

[Tim Abbott]

First of all, let me start off by saying that I am an idiot.


I was very tired Sat evening and decided to rent a movie. I was looking for an older catalog movie that I had missed (for whatever reason) the past couple of years. I saw Mulholland Dr. on the rack and I thought "Hey, great! I love David Lynch. I mean Fight Club, the Game, Panic Room, what's not to love?!?" Well, you know that I was thinking of David Fincher, NOT David Lynch.

About an hour and twenty minutes into the movie, I pick up the box and think to myself what the heck is going on??? It was then that I noticed the 27 different references to Twin Peaks and made the proper connection in my mind.

Needless to say, I was not in the proper frame of mind for a movie of this type. Not only did I not enjoy the movie, I spent the last hour on the internet trying to figure out exactly what I watched.

I thought you might enjoy that story.

[paul_goz]

MD is a fascinating film, emotional experience or whatever else one wants to label it. The non-linear narrative and imppresionistic characters and clues are very reminiscent of the spanish writer Borges. Circular and elliptical narratives were being worked out by this writer in the 1940's.

Films such as MD, Lost highway and Twin Peaks are attractive to us for the very reason that they do not lend to easy interpretation. All great works of art, offer each individual, their own interpretation. No single interpretation is more valid than the next, regardless of the baggage each individual brings into the equation when forming their opinion.

[ZacharyTait]

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His exchange with Roger Ebert at the academy awards, in respect specifically to Mulholland Drive, revealed as much

Anyone know what this was about?

[MatS]

MD will be on USA Network tonight (in less than a half hour)

weird

I know one scene that won't be included
oh hell, I know more than one that won't be included
why bother

[Haggai]

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I know one scene that won't be included

My, my, I simply CAN'T imagine which scene you're talking about...

But this is the network that brought us "USA Up All Night", so I bet they'll try, although I don't know exactly how hot the girl-on-girl action has to get before they can't show it. It's pretty damn hot in this movie, so maybe they can't go quite that far.

[MatS]

you think Rhonda might return tonight

Forget g-o-g one does just fine on her own
I'm tempted to watch just to see the edits
even though I can put in the dvd to see the real thing

oh well if anything seeing this listed let me bump up the thread for this brilliant movie

[Matt Stone]

Wow, strangely enough nothing was actually excised from the film. They had blurred pixelation over the naughty bits, and bleeped the F-word, but no cuts.