THE NOUGHTIES: TEN

a personal list. limited to one film per director.

1. inland empire – the culmination of david lynch’s work – all of his usual themes are present here, all the visual elements, all combined into one long, terrifying nightmare. laura dern owns.

2. mysterious skin – after spending the last-half of the nineties getting campier and campier (or better and better, same thing?), araki disappeared for a few years and then came out with this film – a surprisingly touching and intimate adaptation of scott heim’s first novel, culminating in the most honest portrayal of the aftermath of child sexual...