Wednesday, July 11, 2007
(10:54 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
David Lynch
Last night I went to see Blue Velvet at the Gene Siskel Film Center, which is part of their David Lynch retrospective (full calendar here). I had seen it before on video, but for me it was a qualitatively different experience in the theater. One benefit is watching it with a large audience (surprisingly large for a Tuesday night, in fact). Another is that it's more all-encompassing in the theater -- I paid closer attention, and I feel like the impact of the film was more intense because of that.After I left the theater, the world at large felt like a David Lynch movie to me. That alone was worth the price of admission, though experiencing that several nights in a row would likely drive one insane.
I will likely try to go see Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Dr. His latest movie sounds interesting, but I'm nervous to go see it because of the handheld camera work. In the last couple months, my movie-related nausea thankfully seems to have dissipated, but I don't want to actively antagonize my body, given that Blair Witch Project was what prompted my bizarre syndrome of getting motion sickness every time I went to the movies for several years.
