film ick: David Lynch's Inland Empire: What Do We Know? What Have I Seen?

Brendon over at Film Ick (a devoted Lynch fan) checked out the current Digidesign promotional disc that hawks Lynch as a user and shows a little of his current digital workflow. Brendon suspects that a chunk of the footage on the disc is from the oft-rumored but little-detailed Lynch project Inland Empire... and according to Brendon, it's baaaad.

Blue Velvet is, I think, the greatest American film of the 1980s. Eraserhead is the absolute tour de force of impressionistic film making. Lost Highway is the only film to have actually ever scared me. The Straight Story is a beautiful example of a great craftsman truly honing a film. Twin Peaks is my favourite TV show of all time. The Grandmother ranks amongst my favourite short films. I adore the Julee Cruise albums and Industrial Symphony No 1 film.

The (apparent) Inland Empire scene on the DVD looks like an awful, dreadful mistake.
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It's not shooting digitally I object to - it's that he's seemingly abandoned all of his skills, turned out something that appears, at best, to be indifferent or a little careless, or at worst, to be a lazy, cynical pastiche of his former glories with all of the details out of joint.

Lets hope that what he was seeing was a side piece for the website or something not anywhere near ready for public consumption, and that all that TM hasn't robbed Lynch of his vision, or altered it in such a way that even his fans can't connect with it any more. (I still have faith in him, for what it's worth).
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