David Lynch is a God

Lynch Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

Cult director David Lynch was honored with the prestigious lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, and he used the opportunity to reassure the press about his quirky new movie Inland Empire. Lynch, who is behind hit movies Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet, spent two years developing the hallucinatory project, which stars Naomi Watts' vocal talents as a talking rabbit. He insisted, "It's supposed to make perfect sense. Every film is like going into a new world, going into the unknown. But you should be not afraid of using your intuition, and feel and think your way through." But Laura Dern, who also stars in the improvisation-based movie, admitted she is still baffled by the film herself. She said, "The truth is I didn't know who I was playing - and I still don't know. I'm looking forward to seeing the film tonight to learn more."

That was from IMDb, but there is also this article about the same thing.

It's always annoyed me that I've never been able to see David Lynch's Rabbits (with Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring amongst others dressed in rabbit costumes) that Lynch posted on his official website (it costs $$$ to be a member). It sounded weird and bizarre and that's the sorta shit I love from David Lynch. So it was with suprised glee that I read the Rabbits from Rabbits are going to be in his new movie Inland Empire. Nobody is sure whether the original Rabbits sections are in the movie (there were 9 individual segments totalling 50 minutes) or whether Lynch has made new Rabbits segments for Inland Empire.

You can check out a brief (three minutes) extract from Rabbits with Rebekah Del Rio (who sang "Llorando" so gloriously in Mulholland Drive). The music sounds very much like Angelo Badalamenti's UMA winning score too. And the couch and the lamp just brings back Mulholland memories. I'm not sure what the hell it's meant to be (there's an audience?). Rebekah sings a song (sort of) and... er... that's about it. It's really cool, but I have no idea what it is. She disappears at the end! I dunno. It's cool though!

There was news that Lynch was going to release all the movies and shorts, that he put up at his website, on DVD (which would include Rabbits one would assume), but if this whole Rabbits thing is part of Inland Empire... well, who knows?

God, just discussing David Lynch is confusing!

From the Press Conference in Venice for Inland Empire, which premiered yesterday.

When asked to explain the appearance of three actors wearing rabbits' heads, one of whom stands in the corner doing the ironing, the 60-year-old replied: "No, I can't explain that."

??!!!!!??

Anyway, I cannot wait for Inland Empire. It was my #1 most anticipated title of the year at the very start and it still is. Some reviews have started popping up!

Variety doesn't like it too much, but calls Laura Dern's performance "intense". There are some weird stuff in there like the bit about prostitutes singing "Do The Locomotion". LOL. But, yeah, they say the film is predictably non-sensicle and that the fact that it doesn't make sense is all because of Lynch's filming style (he didn't have a script he just filmed random scenes as he pleased)

Edicom has a review but it's in French so I can't read it...

Also, eheck this out. It's a brief clip of Lynch during an Inland Empire conference. Neato. Only he could comment on the "smell of jasmine in the night" about Los Angeles.

(sorry if this entry was wacky and all over the place, but - much like Lynch - I was just typing as stuff came to me)

If you're so inclined, check out other entries by myself about David Lynch here and here and here. Now, I'm outta here.