Inland Empire

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"I'll show you light now. It burns bright forever. No more blue tomorrows. You on high now, love." Lynch does Lynch. A decade later, "Inland Empire" remains the filmmaker's most impenetrable work in a career that hasn't exactly courted the mainstream - an ugly (both visually and tonally) journey down the rabbit hole of identity and fame, as a creeping Old World evil infects the streets of Hollywood Boulevard.

Post Ironic

Incredibly self-indulgent, at times impenetrable, perverse, grotesque, strange, opaque... But a stunning masterpiece, in part, because of the above. Lynch delves so insightfully, and so well, into the horrific underbelly of the imagination. One of the most terrifying films ever made. And another on my list I watch each Halloween.

Duncan Gray

DV looks like neither film nor life, yet reminiscent of both, so it's perfect for Lynch's uncanny ode to cinema. Despite being totally fucking terrifying, this may be his most optimistic film, telling (by my count) dual stories about an actress who faces her demons by playing a role, and a viewer who faces her own by watching it. Both break through. Another viewing would make it clearer, but I don't have the nerves.

Francesco Tonelli

You mustn't watch this movie. You have to enter inside it. Become it.

chillinonpluto

Great (and long) journey through the Lynchian universe, full of crossed references to previous works, inlcuding his early experimental animation films, Lynch's own musical career and - last but not least - his published and well-known writings on creative processses.

Cristi Georgescu

this is clearly one of his best films, although it's very underrated. loved the camera work and the recurring Lynchian motifs.

Jesse Furgurson

A very illuminating documentary about quantum mechanical research in the Baltic region.

yuriwalker

The best nightmare I've ever had.