Fancy Movie Time #12 - Mulholland Drive
Added 2023-11-30 17:17:56 +0000 UTCOn this episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads open the mysterious blue box and dive deep into the dumpster behind Winkie's as they cover David Lynch's surrealist Hollywood nightmare: Mullholland Drive. Does the film's stylistic swings and narrative gambles make it a Fancy Feast? Or does its adherence to melodrama make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: David Lynch is directly responsible for Hannah Montana.
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I think the problem with this movie for me is that the intentionality of the story is almost entirely retroactive. David Lynch wanted a TV show, filmed a pilot without knowing the how the story was going to all play out, and had to staple "It was all a dream" as a hurried wrap-up after it got rejected. Had the pilot been successful, we would have gotten an entirely different story arc out of the exact same footage. Feels kinda like trying to do a Rorschach test on a coffee stain.
John Her
2024-08-31 11:34:29 +0000 UTCmulholland drive is one of my favorite films, but it is forever tied to the time i showed it to a guy i liked and he bounced off so hard, like everything i liked about it was something he hated
titus virginia
2023-12-01 18:52:58 +0000 UTCI recommend Werckmeister Harmonies. I watched that film 15 years ago and it still HAUNTS me. Or you could do Haneke - the white ribbon. Finally, I'd like to recommend Vilsmaier - Brother of Sleep. One of my favorites.
Wilko
2023-12-01 08:28:09 +0000 UTCI loved this movie when I watched it but I was also a teenage lesbian before you could really Go Online so that might have something to do with it
Aysha U. Farah
2023-12-01 01:18:46 +0000 UTCYeah I made this comment before y'all talked about why jump scares in particular mess with him. That whole last part is SO intense. I knew it was coming and still came up out of my seat lol!
Dergon
2023-12-01 00:10:36 +0000 UTCI think the jumps are would fuck up A.J. too bad
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-11-30 23:54:13 +0000 UTCLip syncing prerecorded audio that suggests watching the holy mountain 1973
Zipzapzop
2023-11-30 23:22:54 +0000 UTCHaving heard the Fancy Lads give insight into this movie's California-ness I would like to volunteer Todd Haynes' SAFE for the Fancy Pile. That movie is About America but it's also specifically About California/the West Coast in a way that I sensed but couldn't grasp the nuances of, myself being a creature of the I-95 corridor
Elah
2023-11-30 21:46:57 +0000 UTCThis was I think my third watch of the movie, and I really have to say having now seen most of Lynch's other work and matured as a Fancy Movie enjoyer the fact that this movie can be solved really cheapens it for me. It feels like a betrayal of the spirit of Lost Highway and Inland Empire and The Return, and even Wild At Heart in its way, all of which to me make the point that mystery is valuable for its own sake, not for its solution. My favorite parts of the film are the furthest it gets from the mystery, which are the same parts that both of you picked out as your favorite - the vibes, the comedy, the performances, the poetry of the production & design. I love how fixated Lynch is on skin - taut on the younger characters, sagging on the old characters, the paint-like look of Anne Miller's makeup, the mismatch of skin tone with fake hair on the actors wearing wigs. The cartooniness of the telenovela sheen really draws attention to it in a similar but inverse way as the peak-TV Prestige Grit does in The Return. Speaking of Peak TV, this watch I actually had the opposite reaction y'all and most people do to the way Betty transforms the script at the audition - in our time when so much TV centers attention-grabby, awards-baity lead performances Betty's subversion of expectations feels hacky to me; I almost prefer the earnest pulp. But I guess if Diane is meant to be a middling actress as Brian suggests, it would make sense that her dream of "good" acting is gimmicky.
Elah
2023-11-30 21:44:13 +0000 UTC😱 Are you guys gonna do Wait Until Dark?!
Dergon
2023-11-30 19:22:54 +0000 UTC
