#a great one is mullholland drive by david lynch

[13eyond13]

Please tell me about art and media you know of that accurately captures the weirdness of dream logic and atmosphere and emotions... books and movies and video games and art and comics and YouTube stuff, whatever you want... you know, where it only makes sense on an intuitive level and falls apart when you try to explain it...

#im trying to think of examples #a great one is mullholland drive by david lynch #also actually some of david firth's (salad fingers guy's) sock series animations did that so well for me back in the day #like you know where something or someone or a place can be two things at the same time in the dream? #and how something weird and silly can have the strongest serious emotions attached to it #and how stories within stories happen #eternal sunshine of the spotless mind #was good w these vibes #silent hill 2 as well and sort of majora's mask #the book orlando #actually you know what i just rewatched a bunch of david firth's cartoons and Pulch: The Good Times is actually a better dreamlike one #than some of his dream series to me somehow #the way it has this wistful tragic nostalgic nonsense vibe that like you'd probably find deep and sad while having the dream #but upon waking it both makes no sense and seems stupid and funny instead if you were to try to explain it #also the nightmarish one about soup or wtv #when the little person gets all upset about her soup being stolen hahaha and then the creepy guy goes 'you forgot your hammer' #anywayssss #many of these things have stuck in my head since like 2007 or wtv idk theyre just fun #Sock 4: Sock Lops is good for the weird narrative jumping dream logic vibes #if you can stand to watch that much 2000s newgrounds edgy animation in this day and age... #p

[theprettynerdie]

🔥 film theory

I have mixed feelings about how to film Shakespeare. In general, I feel like extravagant sets and costumes undermine the actors physically, as well as their performances. Black box is my favorite type of Shakespeare because you focus on the story and the characters. But then again, my favorite of his plays is Titus Andronicus, and Julie Taymor’s Titus was an incredible piece of filmmaking. She modernized Shakespeare properly, while Baz Luhrmann got it all wrong with Romeo + Juliet (I really truly hate that movie). And I can’t really explain why one film works while another doesn’t, but it might depend on the play and all the elements. In general I feel like swelling music and overlarge sets diminish some of the power of the play (Hamlet seems to be the play that does least well from transition from stage to screen - I dislike the Olivier version a great deal, and I had my own issues even with the Branagh version).

I see no redeeming qualities in Blue Velvet, aside from Dennis Hopper’s performance as Frank Booth. I think Lynch showed no technical or artistic prowess, the story makes little sense, the dialogue is laughably poor. I’ve heard people praise it for the writing (terrible) and the visual flair (not present), and I’m still trying to figure out what everyone else sees that I don’t. Lynch is very hit or miss with me: I hated Blue Velvet, hated Wild At Heart, but loved Eraserhead, and very much liked Twin Peaks. I saw Mullholland Drive recently and it wasn’t a great film but it was good if you just see it as a piece of art by David Lynch and not as a standalone piece of cinema. There’s a real lack of polish to his work that feels more like incompetence than low budget filmmaking.

French and Italian cinema gets most of the attention whenever we talk about influential non-Hollywood film movements, but German cinema of the 1920s and 1970s-80s is my absolute favorite. Anything Fassbinder did makes me want to scream; his work was so meticulous and artful and it’s like his style was tailor-made for my aesthetic.

#film #film talk #movies #imperfectkreis