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Fire Walk With Me: Through the Darkness of Future Past

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This is a formica table.

Posted in David Lynch, Film, TV, Twin Peaks, UncategorizedTagged David Lynch, Fire Walk With Me, Lynchian, Twin Peaks

Napoleon Dynamite: Forever Young is Overrated

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I caught you a delicious bass.

Posted in Comedy, Film, Jared Hess, Jon Heder, Napoleon DynamiteTagged Comedy, Coming of Age, Film, Film Blog, Jared Hess, Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite

Perfect Soundtracks Whatever: Grosse Pointe Blank

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This is me breathing.

Posted in Film, Grosse Pointe Blank, john cusack, Minnie Driver, SoundtracksTagged Dan Ackroyd, Film, Grosse Pointe Blank, Joe Strummer, john cusack, Minnie Driver, Music, Soundtracks, The Clash

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, or the not-so-subtle art of not giving a fuck.

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Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond, or the not-so-subtle art of not giving a fuck.

Posted in Andy Kauffman, Danny De Vito, Documentary, Film, Jim & Andy, Jim Carrey, Man on the Moon, Milos FormanTagged Acting, Andy Kauffman, Danny De Vito, Film, Film Blog, Jim & Andy, Jim Carrey, Man on the Moon, Milos Forman, Netflix

A Clockwork Orange: Ultra-Violent Self-Censorship

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It’s funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

Posted in A Clockwork Orange, Film, KubrickTagged A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Censorship, Film, Film Blog, Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Stanley Kubrick

The Shining: Kubrick Transforms King’s Novel into a Uncanny Narrative of American Colonialism

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"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

Posted in Film, Kubrick, The ShiningTagged Colonialism, Jack Nicholson, Kubrick, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining

Mulholland Drive: Destructive Worlds of Fantasy and Reality on the Winding Roads of Lynch Angeles

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Silencio.

Posted in David Lynch, Film, Mulholland Drive, SpoilersTagged David Lynch, Dreams, Lynchian, Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts

Lost Highway: Suppression of Reality in Lynch Angeles

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Dick Laurent is dead.

Posted in David Lynch, Film, Lost HighwayTagged Balthazar Getty, Bill Pullman, David Lynch, Dreams, Lost Highway, Lynchian, Patricia Arquette

Blue Velvet: Twin Worlds of Desire Within the American Idyll of Lynchtown

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And now it's dark...

Posted in David Lynch, Film, Lost Highway, SpoilersTagged Blue Velvet, Chicken Walk, David Lynch, Duality, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle Maclachlan, Laura Dern, Lynchian

Moonrise Kingdom: Cultural Tools of Escapism Enabling a Storm of Youthful Rebellion

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What kind of bird are you?

Posted in Film, Spoilers, Wes AndersonTagged Benjamin Britten, Camp Ivanhoe, Carnivalesque, Coming of Age, Family, Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson
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