Arrow’s release of Sleep / Schlaf, the debut feature of German director Michael Venus, on Blu-ray is not to be slept on. Puns aside, the film lives up to its name with a dreamy aesthetic and storyline that creeps under your skin. We start with Marlene playing a game of […]
David Lynch
Inland Empire (2006): How much more Lynch can this be? None, none more Lynch (Review)
Re-released in a new Criterion led restoration, Inland Empire is David Lynch’s most recent feature length film (if you’re not counting Twin Peaks: The Return, which is more contentious than you’d think), and generally has the reputation of being a collection of ideas and experimentations with filming in digital, lacking […]
Lost Highway (1997) David Lynch’s Neo-Noir Multiverse of Interpretation (Blu-Ray Review)
Back in 1997 Tony Blair became Prime Minister for the first time, Katrina and the Waves won the Eurovision song contest for the UK, and Batman and Robin, complete with George Clooney’s wobbly-headed rubber-nippled caped-crusader, sunk a comic book movie franchise for eight years. It was also the year that […]
Sting & Dune (1984) Pop Screen 34
Dune, 1984, USA/Mexico, Dir. David Lynch (Sting) Once a reviled commercial disaster, today David Lynch’s Dune is… a tolerated commercial disaster? It has its fans, it has its naysayers, so before Denis Villeneuve launches his much-anticipated adaptation of (the first half of) Frank Herbert’s novel Graham and Archaeon are convening […]
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Reassessment of Lynch’s ‘pathologically unpleasant’ film is complete (Review)
There was a time when people would have been surprised to see Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on Criterion, you know. Janet Maslin’s infamous New York Times pan (“brain-dead grotesquerie… pathologically unpleasant”) set the tone for the initial Cannes reception, and things did not get any better once it […]
The Bloodhound (2020) Somewhere between David Lynch and Yorgos Lanthimos (Review)
Eraserhead (1976) A Treasure Trove Release for Fans of David Lynch (Review)
Dreamland (2019) Canadians can be rather quirky people (Review)
Possum (2018) a bleakness from beyond the dark place (Review)
Part [The] Babadook and part David Lynch fuelled nightmare, Matthew Holness’s directorial debut, Possum, is as bleak and oppressive as psychological horror gets. Unfortunately, I get the impression that Holness would’ve been better suited turning Possum into a portmanteau film rather than a feature of its own. And that’s fine, […]
