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1BR by Jonny Numb
1BR: A Fresh Angle As someone who’s never owned a home, apartment-based movies have always resonated with me. I consider Polanski’s “Apartment Trilogy” one of the unified masterpieces of cinema, because – from Repulsion to Rosemary’s Baby to The Tenant – he captures not only the dread of characters who are “different,” but the ominous…
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Inland Empire – Goodbye Blue Tomorrows! (Part 2) by Jonny Numb
Inland Empire Says Goodbye to the Blues That’s right! As the housewife who is bored with her husband in Inland Empire, Dern looks on with a mix of bewilderment and amusement as a group of prostitutes do “The Locomotion,” and she is whisked away to snowy Poland, where the plot sporadically diverts, focusing on…
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Inland Empire – The Murk is the Message (Part 1) by Jonny Numb
Going Inland Empire Is there meaning to be found within Inland Empire? If so, you must allow a decade between each viewing. That is the conclusion I have come to. Along with: “Exterminate all rational thought” (thanks, Naked Lunch). It’s a film by David Lynch – a man whose ambition is matched only by his…
