Movie Notes: Wild At Heart
Synopsis
Lula (Laura Dern) and Sailor (Nicolas Cage) are in love, much to the consternation of Lula’s nutcase mother (Diane Ladd). The doomed lovers head west across the American south.
Movie Notes: Inland Empire
Synopsis
While filming a strange movie, actress Nikki (Laura Dern) embarks on a journey into the bizarre.
Movie Notes: Lost Highway
Synopsis
A jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) and wife (Patricia Arquette) receives strange videotapes of someone observing their house. Events soon turn bizarre, there’s a murder, and a transformation into another person.
Movie Notes: Eraserhead
Synopsis
Henry Spencer (Jack Nance), living in a decaying industrial center, gets his girlfriend Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) pregnant. After meeting her odd family, he finds himself in the care of their deformed child in his small, dark apartment.
Movie Notes: Dune: Extended Edition
I saw Dune upon its debut in the early eighties, after having read the Frank Herbert book. The biggest complaint at that time was the film made little sense if one hadn’t read the novel; a sentiment I totally agree with. Dune is an epic, complex world, featuring several factions from different planets fighting over a mysterious spice on the desert planet Arrakis. Mix in prophetic religion, mysticism, truly warped imagery, and gigantic alien worms, and it’s confusing to the initiated. Watching the film version with no previous familiarity almost certainly leads to a gigantic “WTF?”