Comments on: Inland Empire http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/09/05/inland-empire/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:19:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/09/05/inland-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-5174 John Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:29:21 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=887#comment-5174 People who complain about Lynch's films usually seem to want cinema to be one thing, ie: Hollywood-style with requisite three-act structure and a happy ending. This is as nonsensically restrictive as demanding that all music should take the form of songs or all poetry should rhyme. Fiction can be anything and has every right to be as pointless and confusing as our lives or our dreams. Audiences have no right to demand anything. Art isn't entertainment, it's art. And life doesn't have a happy ending. This page has release dates for Inland Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Empire_(film) Looks like we're getting it in March. People who complain about Lynch’s films usually seem to want cinema to be one thing, ie: Hollywood-style with requisite three-act structure and a happy ending. This is as nonsensically restrictive as demanding that all music should take the form of songs or all poetry should rhyme. Fiction can be anything and has every right to be as pointless and confusing as our lives or our dreams. Audiences have no right to demand anything. Art isn’t entertainment, it’s art. And life doesn’t have a happy ending.

This page has release dates for Inland Empire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Empire_(film)

Looks like we’re getting it in March.

]]> By: Wiley http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/09/05/inland-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-5089 Wiley Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:14:27 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=887#comment-5089 You have to dig directors whose films could never be remade. With a few exceptions like John Carpenter, people who rely on filming remakes to further their careers have little imagination or skill with a camera, not to say I'm any good with a camera either. A while back some guy told me an up&comer in L.A. was pushing for the rights to remake 'Suspiria'. Damn am I glad that hasn't happened. I think I can rest assured no yuppy could possibly, or even want to try, remaking something with balls and bite like 'Lost Highway'. Why does no one seem to find confusing things amusing? I first saw that damn movie with three others and none of them paid any attention to the cool shit amidst all the distortion. It seems I'm rambling again, probably because the loud music in another window. Has Lynch's latest already come out in Europe, I haven't yet heard anything new about it? Last time I checked, Lynch's webpage required some fee that I was too cheap to pay. You have to dig directors whose films could never be remade. With a few exceptions like John Carpenter, people who rely on filming remakes to further their careers have little imagination or skill with a camera, not to say I’m any good with a camera either. A while back some guy told me an up&comer in L.A. was pushing for the rights to remake ‘Suspiria’. Damn am I glad that hasn’t happened. I think I can rest assured no yuppy could possibly, or even want to try, remaking something with balls and bite like ‘Lost Highway’. Why does no one seem to find confusing things amusing? I first saw that damn movie with three others and none of them paid any attention to the cool shit amidst all the distortion. It seems I’m rambling again, probably because the loud music in another window. Has Lynch’s latest already come out in Europe, I haven’t yet heard anything new about it? Last time I checked, Lynch’s webpage required some fee that I was too cheap to pay.

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