I love me some David Lynch (I just happened to catch The Straight Story yesterday for the first time), and I found this article about the man and his new 3-hour (!!!) digital debut Inland Empire. The film stars Laura Dern (her first sojourn with Lynch since 1990's Wild at Heart) and Jeremy Irons (in his debut Lynch film) and then in some capacity, also has Justin Theroux (who was in Mulholland Drive), Harry Dean Stanton (who has routinely appeared in Lynch movies as a cameo, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Straight Story) and, er, Naomi Watts' voice. It also has Diane Ladd (Oscar nominated for Wild at Heart), Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks), Laura Elena Harring (Mulholland Drive), William H Macy, Julia Ormand, Mary Steenburgen, Nastassja Kinksi and, in a move that is sure to delight Aussie's around the globe... Cameron Daddo. Uh-huh...?
Anyway, so the film has received 185 votes at the IMDb and has a score of 9.0, but that's typical for this sort of thing. The die-hards see it at film festivals (it screened at Venice and NY). And for a movie like this, it is sure to go down. It appears to have no structure, no working plot and David Lynch just filmed whatever he felt like and mixed them altogether. According to the article the main link is a 70-minute monologue of Laura Dern's character, which has been cut up and spread throughout the film. Odd, but delightfully intriguing.
So, yes, read the article (it's great, revel in the juicy, if minute, plot details such as the woman stabbed with a screwdriver, running down Hollywood Blvd dripping blood on the walk of fame), and just hope that the film finds a distributer in your country. It hasn't got one in the US or Australia, as far as I know, but IMDb tells me it'll be released in several countries between now and April next year (pretty much all of them are, typically, European nations).
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