This movie is craziness.

Sweet, sweet Betty

This is my favorite film! Another favorite Lynch, Lost Highway, which is similarly obscure, is fantastically dissected in "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema" a film by Slavoj Zizek. I cannot recommend that documentary enough to Screened readers.

Lost Highway is the only Lynch movie which makes somewhat of a sense to me.

I can't believe the hitman is Jacob from Lost! Who does the cowboy visit and whisper "wake up" to? Is that the point when we shift from dream to reality?

I watched it for boobs.

Insanity, I've seen this movie before but I don't remember it at all. I'll have to watch it again.

Wauw, Rorie, your interpretation of Mulholland Drv. is exactly the same as mine, but you seem to have a bit easier explaining the story than I usually do when people come to me asking what the hell Mulholland Drv. was about after I've forced them to watch it.

I love that movie to bits. I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of my most watched movies.

Will you be making more "You Can't Explain That"-features with Lynch movies? I'm asking because I'm really interested in knowing what you get out of Inland Empire because I think that's his most confusing (or 'mysterious' as Lynch would put it) movies. Lost Highway is not that big of a mystery after I watched "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema" by Slavoj Zizek, which was also mentioned in a post above this one, plus Lynch goes into a surprisingly amount of detail explaining what is going on in Fred Madison's life in the book Lynch on Lynch.

Also this is a video feature I would love to see more of. I love how the Screened video features have evovled over the last couple of months. Great job, guys! If you plan on making more "You Can't Explain That"-features I would love to see you explaining Synedoche New York by Charlie Kaufman :)

Lynch is one of my favorites. Great feature. I would definitely like to see more.

p.s. Way to use a meme as the feature name.

This movie is actually the most straightforward out of his dream trilogy. Lost Highway and Inland Empire both hop around enough with their dreams that they're both way more impenetrable than this. I think that was due to the fact Mulholland was was originally shot as a TV pilot with the final reality act filmed later after the ABC rejection and some extra funding. Lynch probably made the final act (with likely some slick editing of the dream itself) as a total explanation of everything else. If this became a TV series it would have been more confusing with all sorts of extra mysteries like Twin Peaks. Thanks for not getting all Freudian on the whole key and the box thing, Rorie, because it's totally easy and probably intentional on Lynch's part anyhow.

As an aside I love the hit gone sloppy scene is so good it even puts to shame Tarantino's variations of those kind of scenarios.

Lol, way to remove all the sexiness from the film Rorie.

Are there any spoilers in this video? I want to see this movie, but I also want to watch this video,

Rorie, I'd love to see your take on Inland Empire. I personally found it completely impenetrable, but I've only really sat through it once. I've always enjoyed the discussions that pop up when people start dissecting Lynch films. Mulholland Drive, incidentally, is my favorite film.

@Pickle said:

Are there any spoilers in this video? I want to see this movie, but I also want to watch this video,

This video pretty much spoils all the things. Watch the movie first.

Watch the Naomi Watts edition of Inside the Actors Studio -- Lipton and Watts pretty much nail it, as far as I'm concerned.

Lynch, of course, never tells.

@Matt_ said:

@Pickle said:

Are there any spoilers in this video? I want to see this movie, but I also want to watch this video,

This video pretty much spoils all the things. Watch the movie first.

Thanks for the heads up. Moving this up the Netflix queue ASAP.

@deadmoscow said:

Rorie, I'd love to see your take on Inland Empire. I personally found it completely impenetrable, but I've only really sat through it once. I've always enjoyed the discussions that pop up when people start dissecting Lynch films. Mulholland Drive, incidentally, is my favorite film.

When I left the theater after watching Inland Empire with my two friends none of us were able to comment on the movie. The last 20 minutes of the movie had terrified us beyond belief - you probably know which scenes I'm refering to ;)

I have a friend who refuses to talk about David Lynch's movie which I think is pretty funny. She believes that watching a David Lynch movie is such a personal experience that talking about it is unnecessary and won't lead to anything.