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David Lynch’s Art and Life
Justine Smith writes about David Lynch's "The Art Life" and the way avant-garde art has informed his career.
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Sight/Sound: 6 Films Whose Titles Come from Songs
Naming can be difficult, whether it’s a newborn or a startup company. You have to weigh certain qualities: originality, specificity, impact. “Google” doesn’t mean anything, but it worked regardless. Naming a film can be just as cumbersome, and in unique ways. ...
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Crazy Cake Time: Celebrating David Lynch’s Birthday
It is time to celebrate the birthday of cinema’s most influential director of the bizarre. He chills our bones with overwhelming frights, haunts us with unjust happenings beneath beautiful surfaces, makes us laugh at quirky in-jokes, and warms us with heady ro...
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Challenging the Canon: “Blue Velvet”
If one wanted a definitive list of the greatest films of all time—or at least, a definitive list of what are perceived, at this moment in time to be the greatest films of all time—you could not do much better than the list on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? T...
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Birthday Wishes: May a Smile Be Your Umbrella – David Lynch Turns 68
The masterful and wildly eccentric director of Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead, and creator of Twin Peaks, turns 68 today. David Lynch - what can one say? He is one of the most influential filmmakers to ever work in the industry, with countless non-Lynch films...
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History of Film: David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is a film containing all the ingredients of a Lynchian nightmare without venturing too deep into abstraction. It's because of this that the film isn't one of Lynch's more heavily dissected works, but that doesn't make it any less subs...
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Film Critic of the Week: Mark Olsen
The title of this recurring feature suggests that every week I come bearing a new and emerging film critic you should be reading. On most occasions that's an accurate description of this column. However, today we're shaking things up.
While Mark Olsen certa...
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The David Lynch Retrospective: ‘Blue Velvet’
The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work–be it director’s, screenwriter’s, or otherwise–and analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the fi...
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Los Angeles Top 5 (1/18/13–1/24/13)
L.A. is the greatest city on earth to watch movies. Here are this week’s best picks.
1) Blue Velvet and All That Heaven Allows at The Aero (FRIDAY 1/18 7:30PM)
Now this screening is what living in L.A. is all about. I've already had friends in other part...
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