Mulholland Drive

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Summary: The perfect return to film making after The Straight Story
Review: I'll spare anyone who reads this,the retelling of the plot, and just say it was heavenly. This movie was very confusing for the two non-Lynch fans who accompanied me. I fell deep into the twisted characters and lush visuals-they were busy trying to follow the story. But I think to really love David Lynch's work you have to surrender the logical side of your mind sometimes. Also I think alot of the film was for his fans, it seemed to contain many Lynch references. And the film maker-Adam was totally David! I mean he had an ashtray built into his chair. ~Silencio~

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Summary: if there are no other movies left on earth, skip this one.
Review: a lot of people will write rave reviews about how brilliant and psychologically chilling this movie is. how lynch has done it again. david lynch may very well be a genius, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you in all of your everyman glory will understand any of it. there are some very winning performances in the movie (most notably naomi watts and laura harring), and although the acting was good, even the actors couldn't act like they knew what the hell was going on. very lynchian. but as long as david lynch is still alive, there will be at least one person in this world who knows what this film was about...even if he's not telling.

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Summary: Petition for Lynch IQ TEST
Review: I had the pleasure/mispleasure of seeing David Lynch's Mulholland Drive last night. Much to my surprise the audience was comprised of many people who sadly suffer from an acute case of idiocy. This came as quite a surprise to my friend and I because it was a 10:00 showing at the Angelika Theater (swanky art house). Just when my friend and I were about to leave because we could no longer stand people hysterically laughing at every little thing that they did not understand amidst mumbles of "this is strange", I decided to wait it out knowing that the film would turn darker and stranger thus shutting the people up. Well, it worked. That being said the first hour was quite a trial due to audience participation. I would now like to set forth a new precedent in audience attendance. Before seeing a film of an intelligent nature people should be forced to submit to a brief IQ test. Now I am not advocating censorship or denial of rights (well, maybe to an extent) but I would greatly appreciate regular intervals of film viewing (outside of my home) free of moronic citizens. Perhaps an contract of silence? Yes, that's more civil. A pact or contract of silence would be swell.
All said, Lynch's new film has brought new life to this weary cinematic heart. I now look forward to the DVD, but I will miss the grandeur of the big screen.

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Summary: Dream Magus
Review: David Lynch is a unique film maker who, at his best, is capable of manipulating and disturbing the viewer's subconscious psyche, while simultaneously challenging the capacity to reason. He can make that which we find familiar (or naturally suspect) take on a quality of hallucination.
There was considerable buzz on the net last year about Lynch's pilot for a series that ABC (and later others) chose not to broadcast, even though rumored to be at least the equal of Twin Peaks' premier. What makes this Mulholland Drive all the more remarkable is the director's persistance in rescuing the doomed TV project by converting it into theatrical release.
Rather than attempting to neatly resolve even just a couple of the many disparate trails established in the pilot, Lynch chooses a very non-linear, but highly stylized coda. Just as a Roy Orbison song played an underlying theme for Blue Velvet, Lynch uses the song Crying to ubruptly demarcate from further plot development, shifting instead into an examination of jealousy, longing and loss through rapid manipulation of his characters' identity and motivation. In the final half hour of his film, he empties out his whole bag of tricks while revisiting and subverting all that has gone on before in an amazing tour de force.
David Lynch is the rare artist who reminds us just how original and powerful a medium that film can be, and how often we otherwise tend to be satisfied with that which is merely competent and ordinary.

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Summary: Another Lynch Masterpiece!
Review: The latest from Lynch is another in his long line of innovative and challenging films. Many viewers have repeated the often invoked criticism that the movie "does not make sense". As far as Lynch films go, Mulholland Drive offers a number of possible explanations for those who need tidy resolutions and linear storytelling. The most plausible, it would seem to me, is that the first 2/3 or so are a "dream" or "fantasy" and the final half-hour is the "reality". Whether you agree or disagree, however, this is what makes this film, as well as most others from Lynch, so great. He is the rare director who does not "dictate" from the director's chair; instead he allows the viewers to form their own impressions of the artwork. Final Note: Naomi Watts, who essentially is the centerpiece of the film, does an incredible job and offers a spectacular performance (and it does not hurt that she is VERY HOT!). Definately an actress worth checking out (I believe this is her 1st major role in an American film)

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Summary: Spellbinding
Review: The episodes are engrossing as is most of Lynch's work. The plot is a tad confusing but thats the point of the picture. I think he is using the scenes of the characters to symbolize a dream state. Possibly all the characters are really only someone elses dreams or one person's dream. It could also mean that nothing is real and all the world is just one big illusion, one big nothing. It was wildly capitivating but logic was not part of the agenda. Definatley a must see for a someone who has a questioning mind. Lisa Nary

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Summary: ONE MOVIE TWO DREAMS
Review: THERE IS ONLY ONE "REAL" SCENE, THE ONE WITH THE TWO MEN IN THE COFFEE SHOP. THE ONE MAN TELLS THE OTHER THAT HE HAS TWICE HAD A DREAM THAT STARTS WITH THE OTHER MAN STANDING AT THE COUNTER IN THE SAME COFFEE SHOP. THE OTHER MAN GETS UP AND WALKS OUT OF THE SCENE. THE MAN WITH THE DREAMS TURNS AND SEES THE OTHER MAN AT THE COUNTER WERE THE DREAM BEGINS. THE MOVIE IS AN INTERWEAVING OF THE TWO SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME REACURRING DREAM.

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Summary: take the mystery with you...............
Review: It is impossible to digest straight after watching this fantastic movie.Live with it a while and the story will begin to unfold.Our minds strive to rationalise every scene and will not stop until a pattern is formed and the mystery is solved.
This is the girl.

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Summary: DAVID LYNCH RETURNS TO ABNORMAL FORM
Review: As if having worked out peculiar leanings of logic and coherency with his last film, "The Straight Story", Writer-Director David Lynch returns with vengeance to his familiar style of psyched-out paranoia with the weird odyssey, "Mulholland Dr.". This, like his sci-fi nightmare "Lost Highway" is a gargantuan "Twilight Zone" crashing through the roof of stability and meaning and then plunging into the depths of complexity and bombastic film noir. But unlike "Lost Highway" which dropped me off the journey without a hitch back to the impossible plot, I was with "Mulholland Dr." for every curve in the road, studying landmarks and tossing bread crumbs like Hansel and Gretal hoping to find my way back to Mulholland Drive. It didn't matter because the whole thing soon explodes into a splendid visual and literal horizon of L.A. decadence barreling over any sign posts it may have made on the way. It's something like a Hollywood Hills cocktail party from Hell. Maybe something to do with the death of Marilyn Monroe. It's like flipping through the pages of old black and white movie magazines of car crashes and dead celebrities. It is the adult nightmare that belongs to a 5 year-old. It says something about the vitality of youth crossing paths with the declination of age. It doesn't matter what it says or what it's about. Somewhere deep within the recesses of my shady human mind, I think I understand.

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Summary: Mullholland Drive
Review: I only understood this movie in a very general way. I decided to just relax and enjoy it without analyzing or trying to grasp the plot, which seemed to be ever-changing as it twisted and turned along this truly surreal nightmare. When Betty and the mystery woman somehow became Camilla and Diane...I tried to just enjoy the ride without delving too deeply into the plot, if there was one. What was dream-like fantasy and what was real was so blurred most of the time that I came to think that viewers were not really meant to understand it. I enjoyed the acting and the whole film was visually moving and beautiful in its on way. I liked the cameo roles by Chad Everett and Billy Ray Cyrus (whatta HUNK!) The movie stays with you because you keep telling yourself that if you think about it long enough, you will make some sense of the whole thing. That has not really happened yet for me, but I am still trying...