Film

[O Drighes]

Just watched Mulholland Drive on TnaG there.
Can anyone shed any light on what the fuck that was about?

Nope. Apparently not even David Lynch does as he dodges that question everytime he's asked.

The way I see it, it's all a dream of Naomi Watts' character being a better person through the eyes of the other girl up until the blue box/key scene, then all characters swap names and start acting like real people. You can also see secondary characters reappearing (like the old couple or the cowboy, for instance, walking in the background). All of them except the homeless man, but apparently dreaming about a homeless man is supposed to represent death in a variety of ways. Some kind of guilt trip or the pressure of not succeeding, maybe?

Whatever it is, it's quite an unique film.

[Carnage]

Lynch is the very definition of style over substance. His 'films' have nothing to say, they're (generally) exercises in style over substance. He's as much a hack as Picasso was in terms of painting.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Both had demonstrated they were masters of their craft, if you look at their early work, so not hacks. Later, both struck out to look for something completely different, new ways to affect the human spirit, which it's up to the audience to love or hate, but "hack" clearly doesn't fit.

[Eoin McLove]

That's fucking hilarious coming from someone who calls anyone he doesn't like a hack  classic.

Watching I, Daniel Blake. Infuriating stuff. Savage.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That's fucking hilarious coming from someone who calls anyone he doesn't like a hack  classic.

By anyone I don't like, I guess you mean Pinker, and maybe Peterson too? My gripe with them is that I think they've made their popular science buck writing about subjects they precisely don't master, which is pretty much how I define a hack.

[Eoin McLove]

No stop it, I'm going to break a rib 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Good stereotype of responses to critique from Pinker and Peterson's fanbase :ROFLCOPTER:

Saw the trailer for Peter Jackson's Get Back this morning. Looks totally sweet.

[Eoin McLove]

Rofl indeed.

[Caomhaoin]

That's fucking hilarious coming from someone who calls anyone he doesn't like a hack  classic.

By anyone I don't like, I guess you mean Pinker, and maybe Peterson too? My gripe with them is that I think they've made their popular science buck writing about subjects they precisely don't master, which is pretty much how I define a hack.

Your gripe with them is that what they say winds you up. 

You might aswell call Stephen Kolkin a hack because he gives lectures at the Cato institute!

Regarding Mulholland Drive, it confused when I saw it years ago, even though a buddy of mine was raving about its genius.

I had a similar reaction to 'Underground' by Kosterica.

Maybe I lack the requisite culture.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Not a huge fan of Mulholland Drive myself, but it was grand. I do love some Lynch stuff though; Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, all works of genius imo. Then you have A Straight Story and Dune which are maybe not quite genius, but reveal qualities Lynch has that go far beyond what he's become known for. Just not at all the filmography of a hack.

And, for what it's worth, I don't get anything out of what Picasso has become known for.

[Caomhaoin]

Pierce Brosnan once walked right past security in the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid and ignored the 'no photos' signs everywhere and took a lovely picture of himself beside 'Guernica'.

Some lad.

[Eoin McLove]

I watched The Trip to Spain earlier. I love the chemistry between the two lads and find their bullshit very amusing. Perfect Sunday evening viewing.

I followed it up with Ghost Stories and I enjoyed that too. I wasn't sure what it was going to be exactly but it felt a bit old school in a way, especially with the big twist at the end. I think I might have scoffed at it a few years ago but I enjoyed it. Creepy silliness.

[open face surgery]

Pretty sure I've only watched the first series of The Trip.  Must check out the Spain one.

[StoutAndAle]

Watched two Aleksei Balabanov films over the weekend. "Brother" and its imaginatively-titled sequel "Brother 2".

The first one is very good overall - if a bit amateurish in parts. The second one pulls off the trick of being better than the original. Both are violent and darkly funny.

Screening on Mubi currently along with nearly all of Balabanov's other films.

I think that they're on YouTube too.

https://mubi.com/films/brother-1997

https://mubi.com/films/brother-2

[Carnage]

Just finished Halloween Kills. It's alright, a bit more formulaic that the last one but enjoyable. Nice 'cameo', too.