Pan Left Productions

Hi Jason,

I am just starting to blog on Pan Left and wanted to make a comment on your review. I did see Inland Empire, but after your review, I'm inspired to take a closer look at the filmmaking. I totally agree with you about the content of this movie. In fact, I found it very self-indulgent. Regarding his filmmaking style, he is actually a painter and approaches filmmaking in that way. Being a fledgling filmmaker, I am afraid of the cost of film and am staying away from it. I am putting my hopes into DV that the developments will finally completely look like film and replace it all together. I did see an HDV movie at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival by Peter Greenaway. He too started out as a painter and the content of his films is hard to get through as well. But his images are exquiste. He did two really (to me) boring movies that showed at the festival that year. They were, THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES, PART 1. THE MOAB STORY and THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES, EPISODE 3. ANTWERP. I didn't really understand any of them or get drawn into them at all. I was very impressed at how perfect the look of every single frame was. It was even more perfect than film. It didn't remind me of video either. It was just a perfect image. I don't know if you can rent a copy of these. I have never looked to see if they were available for rental on DVD. If you could see one of those movies, you would really be impressed with what the HDV technology can do. They may be distributed by Fortissimo Film. Here is a link to Peter Greenaway's website: http://www.tulselupernetwork.com/public/ He has stills from those films. The 2nd and 3rd films have enlarged stills.

By the way, my favorite films & TV projects by Lynch are Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, Dune, Twin Peaks (before we found out who the killer was), and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Jean

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