I am not surprised about Bill Macy being in it. He is a neighbor of David's.

Just wanna say one thing about your post...

Loved it...you made my day by (enter Mister Rogers with that ice cream smile...):

 "By you're just you being you."

I don't think I've read a better post on a message board in ten years.

Sleep well!
 

Excited excited excited !!!!

I'm trying to get to new york for the festival so I can view this thing. Can't wait ! 

I'll bet it'll be on the Director's Cut!    You know, the "extended" version.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Hopefully once IE is released DL will get behind Twin Peaks season 2 and those the FWWM deleted scenes...

Thank you, iar; I'm really glad to hear how great it was and is; can't wait!

 yeah, I hope that too!!

Regarding the picture below, there is a funny story about it. This is when pictures were taken by the press after the ceremony. An evening show that airs on our third national TV network showed when David was moving the lion in front of all the cameras , up and down and in circles, as if it was a magic torch, but evidently just to make the report easier for the photographers!  The scene was funny and just hilarious. I was actually on the floor!!!

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

Some familiar faces...

This last one is just too much!!

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"INLAND EMPIRE est une oeuvre magnifique sur le gigantesque empire du film, un éloge terrible et fabuleux du pays du cinéma. Capitale : Lynch."  Liberation

I think this is going to be David Lynch's 

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_1/2

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

That hollywoodreporter review really cracks me up...They blatantly want your run of the mill mystery-thriller hollywood film...the type of thing we've seen a thousand times. They cant take it when something different and difficult to grasp comes along. They dont like things that are unclear and impossible to pin down..they dont like art. They want every film the same.

Also interesting how they mentioned Angelo's score....Now im confused...Im pretty sure i didnt see his name on the credits at all! Unless i was too busy looking around and David and the actors. I distinctly remember Penderecki's name on most things and i did not recognise a substantial Badalamenti score. There was definetely some of his music in there but i got the impression it was mainly things re-used from Rabbits. I could however, be wrong.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

I think Penderecki fits perfectly in Lynch's work. I have heard there's also a Beck song in the movie (!). Maybe "Hollywood freaks"? I love that song although I hardly imagine it in a DL movie...

Mr. Silencio, while I was reading IE reviews from Venice, I was thinking of Fellini too. Specially his latest films as "La cittè delle donne", "E la nave va", "Intervista"...films where everything was possible, like if they were a box of ideas, dreams, images... These films not only were brilliant, they were also a demonstration of Fellini's freedom and sense of art. And in these films Fellini went far than ever from conventional cinema and he did exactly what he wanted to do.

I've heard that critics hated most of his works then, but those films remain like true pieces of art.

I think of "IE" in similar terms. Maybe is his "8 1/2" :)  

P.D.: Iar, I love your posts!

I brought the example of 8 1/2 because it is, above all, one of Fellini's masterpieces (along with "I Vitelloni" "Lo Sceicco Bianco - The White Sheik" "La Strada - The Road" "Il Bidone - The Swindle" "La Dolce Vita" and "Satyricon") and a cinematographic emblem because it dealt - for the first time in the history of cinema - with the theme of the meta-cinema (that is, movie within the movie; life and troubles of a director who has to make a film, choose an actress, and gets confused with a lot of levels of narrative and visual power, mixing imagination and reality and memories etc.)
 

Moreover, "8 1/2" opens with a dream sequence that is just wonderful and has become a pearl in the world of cinema. There are other pieces during the film that space out the Reality segments with other "visual ramblings", that mix the director's youth and parental memories. That's why it's easy to compare this movie to what seems to be this INLAND EMPIRE, but also MULHOLLAND DR.

The most remarkable attempt to deal with the same kind of genre, but with different tones, was La nuite americaine by french director François Truffaut.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

I understood what you meant :)

The "8 & 1/2" opening sequence, the one of the traffic jam, is one of my favourite scenes of all time. I like the films you mentioned, but I prefer Fellini from "8 & 1/2" to his last films, specially "Roma", "Amarcord", "Il Casanova" and "E la nave va".  l 

And, being frivolous, I've heard Lynch has an affair with Emily Stofle, the girl from "Room to dream" clip, is it true?

Now that Suri Cruise is real, we need more rumours.

Really? I think maybe this is one good reason to get divorce...

Emily Stofle was the girl on the left. The one of the right was Kristen Kerr.

Josh Eisenstadt told me that the brunette actress in the clip said it very much was from IE, but that it may not have made final cut.

EDIT:  I love the Rabbits theme. I still remember the chills I got hearing it for the first time.   Iar, it is so cute that DL yelled "Let's go!"  That's how I feel, too :)   Mr. Silencio, that last face looks like one of David's "I'm-really-trying-to give-language-to this-idea" expressions.   

Is there any nudity and sex in this film?

(I ask because I have always wanted to take my parents to see a DL film, but my mom is really old fashioned, and objects to nudity and sex.  I assume it has its fair share, much like LH, FWWM, and MD, but I thought I would still ask)

John- You know, i think it may be David's own music over Rabbits then because its no different to orginal Rabbits music. I think im getting confused between yours and David's ambience music and Angelo's....Im just sure that there must be some Angelo stuff in there somewhere...it really has the feel of some of his music in places. All i know is that i did not see his name on the credits...this is troubling me now..i wish i could see it again! I really tried to pay as much attention as i could but i was so swept away in the whole experience that i preferred not to analyse different parts if you know what i mean? All i know for sure is that it was generally not a Badalamenti score!

Room to Dream Clip: Basically i think it was left out in the editing stage. There are scenes around that one in the film..ie...same characters and costumes and setting. I think it was just a discarded scene which was given to the company.