Diane Ladd,
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DVD Release Date: August 14, 2007
Stats: 4,487 reviews
I have to be honest and stay true to myself this time: I didn't like it.
I don't think it is any good and I just didn't enjoy it at all. I love Eraserhead and, obviously, The Elephant Man (Lynch's most mainstream film) but I don't get Lynch's ...( read more)
OK, first things first this movie is literally like seeing your worst, darkest most pessimistic nightmare on screen. The story is as macabre as it is extremely confusing. If you thought the likes of Mulholland Drive and Sunset Boulevard exploited the true cruelty of Hollywood, yo...( read more)
OK, so two days ago a lady comes to my door explaining that she's my new neighbor, having just moved in down the way. I invite her in and over a cup of coffee she tells me that she heard I was going to write a review for Inland Empire. "Oh no, you're mistaken" I said, "I...( read more)
Inland Empire is about a woman in trouble. That's how David Lynch described it at first and that's how I will describe it, because... really... is there another way to do it? Is it worth it to try and recount the argument?! Nooo
Because if you're going to watch Inland Empire y...( read more)
This experimental film is very hard to watch--it's too self-indulgent for my satisfactory taste. Sure, it's a depiction of some perturbing nightmare...but is that all there to it? David Lynch seems to have fallen off the cliff from his days of the past when his movies actually me...( read more)
Super tedious. A fucking brutal drag as far as I'm concerned. I really hated the cinematography. I almost feel guilty for saying this because I enjoy so much of David Lynch's work. But this just made me want to go to sleep.
Rather like Jonathan Ross, I can see that this is a work of genius, but I am not at all sure why. Lynch's usual surreal and disturbing environments are addictive and compelling, although the downside is that this is a very long film.
Lynch's brilliant and bizarre films have often come to us as a puzzle wrapped in an enigma, but his latest is enshrouded with two layers of 'who cares?' full review
Inland Empire is essentially a journey inside David Lynch's mind, sometimes burrowing very deep indeed. Nobody else could have made this film; nobody else should try. full review
The way to watch it is to skip uneasily along its surface and steel yourself for those moments when Lynch pulls you into the vortex. More than any working filmmaker, he knows the dreamlike power of un... full review
Lynch serves up enough irrationally disturbing images for 100 classic Asian horror films, and the bedraggled Dern is so overflowingly open that you can't dismiss the movie as an arty exercise. full review
My advice, in the face of such hallucinatory brilliance, is that you hang on. full review
Lynch's epic about the movie biz and identity seems less a depiction of the dark recesses of the human mind than an actual product of it. full review
If this is the worst movie you've ever seen in your life, then you haven't seen too many movies, have you?
I am in Australia and can't find the release date for Inland Empire. Can anyone help me? I am so keen to see this film, big fan of Lynch.
Cheers
Bec
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