All posts tagged "david lynch"
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Fantasia International Film Festival 2018: Michael Ironside Talks Dune, Verhoeven, and Telekinesis in the Family
Few personalities encapsulate the brilliantly mad spirit of genre cinema more completely than Canadian actor Michael Ironside. In attendance at the Fantasia International Film Festival...
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Along For the Ride: How I Spent Three and a Half Years on the Road With Dennis Hopper’s Right-Hand Man
Let’s rewind to over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager. To best frame up who I am, for the sake of time, here...
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Exclusive: Watch John Malkovich Narrate the End of the World in Short Film “Hell” (Video)
If thou stare long into John Malkovich, John Malkovich will also gaze into thee. And when he reads you a “requiem for humanity,” you should...
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Cannes Film Festival 2017: Charlize Theron, David Lynch, Will Smith and More in Our Red Carpet Gallery
Stars aligned at the 70th anniversary edition of Cannes Film Festival, May 17-28, 2017. It was a typically eventful time in the South of France...
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Scratching Through the Surface: How David Lynch Manipulates His Audience in Mulholland Dr. (Video)
Recently selected by 177 critics as the finest film of the 21st century in a BBC poll, David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. is possibly the crown jewel in...
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A Little Bit of Catharsis: Cucalorus 22 is the change we want to see in the world
After the 3,729-mile journey from Scotland, I woke up in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 8 in a country that global media outlets told me...
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Festival Wrap: Rich Metaphor Abounds at the Sixth Paris International Fantastic Film Festival
“Horror is like a serpent,” Dario Argento once said, “always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back.” At the Paris International...
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Stranger Danger: How The Eyes of My Mother Uses the Audience’s Imagination for Maximum Scares
A mother sees a strange man talking to her daughter outside. The man says he needs to use the bathroom. He’s nicely dressed, but there’s...
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Quiz: Can You Guess the David Lynch Film From a Single Image?
David Lynch is known for his wondrous mix of the glorious and the macabre, doling out the strange and the beautiful in equal measure. Whether...
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10 Classic Films and What You Can Steal From Them: Courtesy of The Wolfpack
Watching movies is escape: It’s a tired cliché, but one brought hauntingly to life in first-time director Crystal Moselle’s startling documentary, The Wolfpack. The film...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...