Inland Empire

Inland Empire: it means Los Angeles, the place of Lynch's inspiration, but also the inward realm of the mind and of dreams, the surreal world of Lynch's imagination that uniquely inspires his visual poems. This new work, three hours long... Read more at imdb.com

I just saw this film at the New York Film Festival followed by a Q & A session with David Lynch, Laura Dern, and Justin Theroux. I will try my best to recount my thoughts while they are fresh, and... Read more at imdb.com

I saw INLAND EMPIRE at the Venice Film Festival world premiere last month. I want to keep this review short due to the fact that writing in great detail about this film is useless. INLAND EMPIRE is an experience. An... Read more at imdb.com

I saw INLAND EMPIRE at the Venice Film Festival and I think it's incredible... surely the most strange Lynch's film. A terrible nightmare of about 3 hours! I love Lynch's films and I think that INLAND EMPIRE resumes his whole... Read more at imdb.com

Much can be said about David Lynch but I think the mistake most people make is to think that he is trying to create a coherent and straight forward narrative structure. He is working on a subconscious level in his... Read more at imdb.com

I saw this movie this past Monday morning at the NYFF (New York Film Festival but I'm sure you probably knew that already) and I have to tell you, I'm at a loss at how to even begin writing this... Read more at imdb.com

Lynch has very high artistic integrity. Lynch will never tell us what any of his films are about - if indeed he knows or would ever admit that a film might be about something in particular. There can be no... Read more at imdb.com

Inland Empire is the Man with a Movie Camera of the 21st Century. It is the most experimental, surreal, and technically brilliant film I may have ever seen. Lynch proves that all he needs is a simple DV camera to... Read more at imdb.com

I just saw the NY premier of Inland Empire, and it was so refreshing to once again be transported in a way only David Lynch can transport somebody. Inland Empire is Lynch at his best - funny, thoughtful, eerie, beautiful,... Read more at imdb.com

I saw this during a period of extreme emotional stress, probably the best possible mode. It was also surrounded by my listening to "Big Fish," Lynch's book, read by himself. The contrast is astonishing: Lynch's banal aphorisms in the book... Read more at imdb.com

This digital video expectedly oneiric plunge into Lynchiana, piecemeal-shot over two years, is the sort of hit parade die-hard fans pine for from their favorite era of their favorite band, all served up with no opening act, no momentum-halting tuning breaks, and no distracting onstage prattle. ... Full Review

The film comes to what seems like a good, happy ending at some point past the two-hour mark, but it goes on. Worse, it turns out that the film has a gypsy curse on it, and that a previous production -- never completed -- was shut down after the stars died. ... Full Review

Expectations aside, 'Inland Empire' can be hypnotic Shot on video outside the traditional production system and distributed outside the usual channels, Lynch has made a film that, even for him, defies convention, expectations and logic, more personal art project than art movie. ... Full Review

To describe the plot in detail is to rob the viewer of Inland Empire's greatest pleasure, which is its complete unpredictability. Exploring such complex issues requires having extremely gifted performers, and the director has assembled another of his great ensembles for Inland Empire. ... Full Review

Lynch is spoofing the art of film, the perfection of technology and the act of seeing. Lynch shot "Inland Empire" on digital video transferred to 35-millimeter film, and he uses its pristine potential to tawdry effect, creating harshly lighted, distressed and artificial-looking images that flatter no one, particularly Dern, who goes from glamorous to garish to ghastly. ... Full Review

I rented Inland Empire yesterday, never seen it before. Im a big Lynch fan since the Twin Peaks days. Not as big of a fan of his surreal stuff like Eraserhead, but I can appreciate it. Hes a genius, no ... Full Article

Depending on your tolerance for illogic or passion for narrative resolution, the double-disc DVD version of David Lynch's self-described "experimental" movie Inland Empire will either render you limp with rapturous surrender or crazy from neural short-circuiting. ... Full Article

David Lynch fans shouldn't hesitate to see "Inland Empire," despite its nearly three-hour run time. It's time well spent. But if you're just curious -- or if you're hoping to convert a friend -- this isn't the ideal introduction to ... Full Article

Disclaimer: The following article could possibly be construed as containing spoilers, although it seems difficult to spoil a largely plotless film, except perhaps by implanting interpretive ideas into your head that may affect the way you watch the film. ... Full Article

Bottom line : It's hard to really criticize a movie when half the time you have no idea what the hell is going on; in the end, the fragmented, who-gives-a-damn-about-coherence plot of "Inland Empire" turns out to be strange-for-strangeness-sake. ... Full Article