1152 Lost Highway

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#76 Post by Farley Flavors » Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:06 pm

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 10:48 am
Plus the remixed audio sounds incredible.
Did it ever not sound incredible?

I was at a 35mm screening at the BFI with Barry Gifford doing a Q&A and he'd passed on to the projectionist Lynch's wish to have the volume cranked up. That was quite the experience.

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#77 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:59 am

Usually when Marilyn Manson started singing

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#78 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:18 pm

I have a real bone to pick with Criterion using the term “science fiction” in it’s plot summary. I realize how difficult a job it must be to put anything David Lynch made in however many words or less (even his shorts) but I can’t let it slide any longer after seeing the new restoration, which is kind of a funny word to use in the context of how this looks because it has always looked like a nightmare. The vivid picture quality did me in a little the same way the last episodes of The Return did.

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#79 Post by beamish14 » Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:40 pm

Farley Flavors wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:06 pm
The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 10:48 am
Plus the remixed audio sounds incredible.
Did it ever not sound incredible?

I was at a 35mm screening at the BFI with Barry Gifford doing a Q&A and he'd passed on to the projectionist Lynch's wish to have the volume cranked up. That was quite the experience.
Lynch left letters to projectionists in prints for Mullholland Dr. to let them know exactly how many hertz the volume shod be set at. The sound designs in his films is uniformly extraordinary

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#80 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:29 am

I appreciate the inclusion of a stereo track on this. I’m just on a simple soundbar at the moment and it is indeed extraordinary.

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#81 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:59 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:18 pm
I have a real bone to pick with Criterion using the term “science fiction” in it’s plot summary
Yeah, applying a scientific method to Lynch doesn't really work when he's all about abstract dreams and emotion trumping logic. Though time travel and split worlds was such an important part of Twin Peaks: The Return that I put that on my sci-fi ballot

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#82 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:33 am

I think Lynch used the term "psychogenic fugue state" to describe this era of his films. Although I suppose that's less catchy than "sci-fi"!

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#83 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:46 am

Well, at least half of the runtime in each movie within this ‘era’ of his are fantasies (the condition of the ‘dreamer’ unknown) of a character in the smaller sections. I feel like fantasy would be the more appropriate genre categorization, if we had to pick between those oft-conflated signifiers

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#84 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:23 am

I was just popping back in to say the same thing twbbs! If you had to choose between the two broad churches, "Fantasy" would be much more appropriate than "Sci-fi". The only real sci-fi Lynch film is Dune (although I think it could be argued that Eraserhead is on that borderline as a proto-cyberpunk film with its industrial landscape and mutated bodies), and even that could be classed as being on the "Sci-fi/Fantasy" border with its arcane lore and monstrous creatures.

The only problem with the "Fantasy" classification is that (when it is not about Marvel and DC comicbook characters) it has been so colonised by Tolkein and George R.R. Martin's towering achievements in that genre (and Dungeons & Dragons/Warhammer/Terry Pratchett, etc) that it immediately conjures up images of orcs and dragons which have ironically rather constrained a genre within certain limited notions when it should be about flights of the imagination into obviously unrealistic but more metaphorical and allegorical directions in all forms. I'm just coming off having played that Scorn videogame and would class that as much more of a fantasy world (on a par with any From Software game) than a sci-fi one because of how ineffably strange its world is that goes into areas beyond anywhere that technological innovation could conceivably progress to. Or at least I hope technology does not progress to that stage!

I wonder if not just "Fantasy" but maybe the best sub-category of fantasy to put Lynch's film (and some of Guillermo del Toro's films for that matter) adjacent to, if not entirely into, are adult "Fairy Tales". Little moral fables about other possible worlds that it is pleasurable for the characters and audiences experiencing the world through the eyes of those character to linger in, before having to return back to reality again, albeit with a slightly differently skewed perspective on their otherwise mundane reality.

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#85 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:13 pm

Yeah that's why I default to horror because it's broad and inclusive (though some have strongly disagreed!)

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#86 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Oct 29, 2022 4:50 pm


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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#87 Post by Boosmahn » Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:27 am

^ It should be mentioned there are unmarked NSFW images. Why have an NSFW section when you put a very much NSFW image outside of it? :-s

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#88 Post by Matt » Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:42 pm

Gary has been doing this for DECADES. It’s like the #2 thing his site is known for.

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#89 Post by mteller » Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:01 am

Boosmahn wrote:
Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:27 am
^ It should be mentioned there are unmarked NSFW images. Why have an NSFW section when you put a very much NSFW image outside of it? :-s
I believe the answer is he didn't always have an NSFW section. So if there's an old review with NSFW images, he'll just put to new comparison image below it without moving it to the new NSFW section. So, basically laziness.

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#90 Post by Boosmahn » Mon Oct 31, 2022 2:45 am

Oh, I'm aware of his reputation! I just thought it was amusing to include a separate section and then ignore it, but mteller's explanation makes sense.

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Re: 1152 Lost Highway

#91 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:55 pm

I really enjoyed the Pretty as a Picture: The Are of David Lynch. I usually don't have high expectations for the supplements attached to his films but this was a good one. It's a very thorough look at the process for this film

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