Tonight, "Nanook of the North" and "A Very Long Engagement".
Wiki has a good article on Nanook and it mentions the "staged reality" controversy over the film. Nanook was made in 1922. It's 2006 and we are still not over the staged reality debate.
Not that it bothers me. I spent a happy two and a half hours last night with Mr. Lynch and his brand of staged unreality over at Mulholland Drive...
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Who was the half?
And I just saw Blue Velvet first time on Big screen :)
And I take offence at you calling Mulholland Dr. staged "unreality"! Mr. Lynch's reality is actually deeper and hidden beneath the surface!!
tabula, the half is always the better one, wot? :)
Alok, so Lynch's reality is much, much better than our reality. At least I don't have to deal with murderous dwarves...
How was Blue Velvet on screen?
Mr. Lynch gives me a headache - a BIG one! But while we're on the subject of art - I grow increasingly weary and short tempered over those who think stylization and artifice are 'bad' things. They are not - when life imitates art - that's just bad timing. When art imitates life - that's bad art. But when art can tell its tale so well and so far removed from the truth - then that is undoubtedly "art for art's sake"...needless to say, the very BEST kind!
Nice :-)
I've heard about this allegation against 'Nanook of the North' but I'm not too cued into the whole matter. If true, what a sad thing that'll be...it'll be particularly sad because this is one of the films I wrote about in my project thesis about documentary films.
Blue Velvet was cool. I even saw a middle aged lady walking out of the theatre the minute after Dennis Hopper starts spouting the f-words!! It still works :) I wonder why had she come to the screening in the first place.
btw, I haven't seen Nanook yet but heard about it a lot. There is a documentary by Luis Bunuel called Land Without Bread. I think there was some staging involved in that too. Its a weird documentary.
Nick, you put it really well. Ars Gratia Artis is not just the motto of that bad-tempered cat ;) Why do Lynch's films give you a headache? Just curious.
Ghost: it's a great film whatever anyone says about its authenticity. IMO, one major function of films is to transport us into strange new worlds and Nanook does it admirably.
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