From former norwegian black metal band Ulver and a YouTube user, comes dubbing of David Lynch’s Lost Highway with Ulver’s song Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses. Lost Highway is probably my favorite Lynch movie because its story actually makes sense. The song isn’t metal, but viewers should watch out for shocking images that Lynch might throw at them.
Longtime readers and close friends know that the Coen Brothers are my favorite filmmakers. This weekend, I got a few movies closer to my goal of watching every movie they have ever made. Barton Fink was, without a doubt, a much better movie than Miller’s Crossing (I don’t care what IMDB reviewers think).
Barton Fink revolves around a playwright who moves to Los Angeles after his first major success on Broadway so he can write for the pictures. Fink has no friends in Los Angeles besides his loud next-door neighbor on the sixth floor of a residential hotel. As he struggles to fit in and find a mentor, strange things begin happening and, when an acquaintance winds up dead, the movie goes from strange to surreal.
At it’s heart, the movie is about relationships: a writer to his writing, the business class to the intellectual class, the intellectual class to the working class. Fink was a writer who spoke for the working man but his audience was intellectual. The movie asks whether these interests could ever mutually exist.
From start to finish, I found this to be one of the most engaging Coen brothers movies I have seen. Beautiful cinematography and brilliant writing help to move this literary film along very well.
Happy Halloween.
This time, they get arrested. Also, an opinion piece in tomorrow’s Washington Post. Movie comes out in two weeks.
Doomsday device real. Dr. Strangelove was an inside job.
From my environmental science class.
The people of Germany are not exactly reacting in the way you might expect from a country whose history is satired in a very irreverent way to Quentin Tarantino’s new movie.
I have been intrigued by Richard Nixon ever since I watched Dick almost ten years ago. This year, my interest was heightened with the release of Frost/Nixon and my watching of All The President’s Men. Both were excellent movies but I wanted to see what the original Nixon interviews were like. Now Netflix has the interviews on instant.
Submitted for your approval.
Glenn Beck:
Update: Glenn Beck responds to critics on the subject of Howard Beale and goes on sort of a Beale-ian rant in the process:
Barry from High Fidelity reminds me of my roommate last year.
Can you tell I like the Coen Brothers? This is my favorite movie scene of all time.
Lately, I’ve gotten into the habit of taking screens of movies that i find particularly beautiful. Can any of my three readers figure out what movie these are from?
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