--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > You are free to do what you want, of course. But > > > any filmmaker who could shoot that footage, even > > > as a throwaway to test color values, is not some- > > > one who is going to get me to plunk down my 10 > > > Euros to see his movies. Even *Warhol* shot more > > > interesting footage than that. > > > > Just as a contrast, take a look at this > > ten-minute student film, The Ten Steps: > > > > http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/ten_steps > > > > As I understand it, this filmmaker is > > not yet 21 years old, and he's *already* > > making better films than Lynch has in > > his entire life. >
> Pretty good, if not particularly creative or > original; it all hangs on the gimmick at the > end. And too bad he felt he had to rely so > heavily on "Now you should be scared" music. > > I've never seen a Lynch film except for "Fire > Walk with Me," which was awful. But some of the > first-season episodes he directed of "Twin Peaks" > on TV were just extraordinary. > **************** "The Elephant Man" and "The Straight Story" were Lynch's most accessible films, mildly successful with critics and the public http://imdb.com/title/tt0166896/ & http://imdb.com/title/tt0080678/ , but he obviously has always preferred to work in the avant garde space (Eraserhead was his first hit), and that is a choice that necessarily puts him out of the scope of pop-oriented reviewing. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
