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    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

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    2 hours ago, Brisbot said:

    I didn't realize just how many good movies he made until I looked at his rotten tomatoes page.

    And yeah now that I think about it I've barely seen anything from him after the early 2000s. Mostly seen some stuff he produced.

    Yeah I know right! It's because he's so prolific! People forget the early stuff. Some of my faves include:

    Empire of the Sun 

    The Color Purple 

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind 

    The Sugarland Express

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial of course this is legendary!!!!

     

     

     

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    Dave Monolith - The Ridge

    in New & Upcoming Releases

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    On 8/10/2019 at 4:14 PM, dr lopez said:

    hey joyrex why did you delete the tape thread. makes no sense at all

    I did it, there was some super dodgy shit on there. It's back now without the content which would get this forum in a serious amount of shit from some VIPs.

    EDIT: not so much a case as throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as throwing the turd out with the bath water IMHO

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    visiting London

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    16 hours ago, Disappearer said:

    So, I am gonna be the one who bumps this one for Summer 2019.  I'll be in London next week (staying @ Spitafields). Any recommendations for things going on right now / in general?

    *Bars / Clubs playing IDM or maybe outdoor raves?  (I'm several months late for Bangface, one month early for Aphex... Doh!) No Fabric 4/4 techno/electro please.
    *Any surreal/oddities shops/shows/attractions? (I am really tempted to go to the David Lynch exhibition in Manchester but I'm not sure there's enough time to go to another city + UK trains are expensive as hell).
    *Decent quality / price ratio cocktails?
    *Nice places to go to in general apart from the typical touristic stuff?

     

    Although I'm not one to plug my own event *cough-cough-cough* I have a club night in Deptford on the 30th August

    You really should try and reach the Stanley Kubrick Exhibition at the Design Museum, go early as the tickets sell out.

    Cocktail bars in the SPitalfields area are well overpriced, apart from Bario East when they have happy hour. 

    Generally I recommend checking our Deptford and Peckham, in the later specifically Taco Queen.

     

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    TWIN PEAKS

    in General Banter

    Posted

    On 7/30/2019 at 1:59 PM, Squee said:

    I really don't buy into whole Freudian thing when it comes to Lynch's movies. To me his movies don't require that sort of interpretation - just like real life. Life is confusing but we, individually, make sense of it in ways that don't translate well into an actual explainable explanation. When I tell my girlfriend about a dream I had I can't possibly explain to her how frightened I was. Unless you're a poet, when you talk about a dream, this big grand and horrifying nightmare, becomes smaller. 

    I think that's why I prefer watching his movies when I'm alone because I don't need to talk to anyone about it afterwards. I really don't want to hear anyone's opinion about his movies. But then on the other hand, I'm always intrigued by what people have to say about them ?

    I hear ya, but the thing that's great about Lynches work is not that you have to read into them but that you can. He and Kubrick's films have so many layers and depths that you could talk about them forever and never get to the bottom of them. You cold watch them over and over again and see a different movie every time. You can go and read about how other people view the plot, characters and themes, and if will open up room after room of thoughts and feelings and emotions. If that isn't great film-making I don't know what is.

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    TWIN PEAKS

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    Well that's a huge oversimplification, in the sense e that they are all about the dark side of Hollywood yes true. 

    Also the films highlight the huge rift between the main characters external and internal lives/reality. 

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    Lost Highway break down from auralcrave.com

    The meaning of the film is actually there and lays more in Freud psychological theory: Lost Highway tells the story of a schizophrenic man who loses contact with reality, kills his wife and then, from prison, escapes in an unconscious projection of his life.

    What’s real is that Fred is a jazz musician betrayed by his wife, with some impotence problems; the projection is the one starting from the blue lights in prison, probably a sign that the electrocution has already started. In the projection, we have three main characters: Pete, the Mystery man and Mr. Eddie, and they represent the three parts of our psyche according to Sigmund Freud: Ego, Id and Super-Ego. The id is the set of impulsive instincts, the ones that need to be filtered and kept under control in a sane mind. The super-Ego is the moralizing part of our mind, the one that comes from our eduction and rational principles. The ego is our personality, that tries to reach the best balance among the inputs from the Id, the Super-Ego and the world we live in.

    Pete is the projection of Fred’s ego, or rather the person he would like to be, a young man, good at sex, appreciated at work, able to “steal” the others’ woman; the mystery man represents the Freudian Id, the instinctive impulses, who records everything he sees (he observes the real facts, not their interpretation), lives “at home” (in your intimate sphere) and eventually helps Pete to kill Mr. Eddie;  Mr. Eddie is the Freudian Super-Ego, the moral conscience, holder of the rules and the ethics, who reacts vehemently if you don’t respect the speed limit, representing the authority to be afraid of. Real life is therefore what happens until the prison, while what happens from that moment on is a mental projection, which begins with the blue flashes and ends again on the highway, again in the blue light of the electric chair. In that moment, the Id already killed the Super-ego and Fred losed the psychic structure that keeps him in the world of rules, making him lose control.

    https://auralcrave.com/en/2018/08/15/lost-highway-explained-the-psychic-collapse-of-david-lynchs-masterpiece/

    Mulholland Drive breakdown also from auralcrave.com 

    Mulholland Drive is a film about dissociation, but in spite of Scorsese’s main interest into assembling a great human drama within his movies, Lynch prefers to be exclusively focused on the oneiric dimension. The Trauma, the Dream, and the dream as trauma. Mulholland Drive is the greatest study of a dream – and therefore of a trauma – ever seen in theatres, which takes place on three interlacing and overlapping levels – Reality, Dream and Subconscious. As usual, this happens without any explanation being given and leaving the viewer the task of putting things in a particular order (as occurred in Lost Highway). There is no mystery to be revealed nor thriller involved, there is no peculiar human tragedy. In order to love and understand the movie, one has to necessary go with the flow and enter the dream.

    Diane Selwyn (Naomi Watts) is an aspiring Hollywood star who has never managed to break into acting and she has recently ended her relationship with Camilla Rhodes (Laura Harring), a well-established actress who gives her a hand to get minor roles in several movies. After being invited to a dinner party by Camilla and riding in a limousine on Mulholland Drive, her ride is interrupted: waiting for her along the road her ex-girlfriend surprisingly arrives to walk her up to a party at Adam Kesher’s house (Justin Theroux), director of their upcoming film. Diane’s deep shock after Camilla and Adam announce their engagement during the party forces her to hire a hitman to kill the woman has betrayed her. The killer shows her a blue key: when Diane sees it again, it will mean the job has been fulfilled. Although this is a turning point, it’s not placed at the beginning of the movie, but just before the end, so everything else happening in the first two hours of Mulholland Drive is nothing but Diane’s dream and her subconscious mind struggling to deal with her love affair and guilt over the decision to have Camilla killed.

    https://auralcrave.com/en/2019/01/27/mulholland-drive-a-complete-explanation-of-david-lynchs-movie/

    Inland Empire breakdown from the guardian 

    The theories are legion. Among the critics, industry totem Variety had one of the most hopeful sallies. To their Jay Weissberg, not only did the film's rabbit sitcom represent an overt link to Alice In Wonderland, the relentless blurring of Dern's identities suggested Lynch, with his devotion to transcendental meditation, was actually expounding on reincarnation. For the Boston Globe's Ty Burr, the film should be understood as a treatise on (to paraphrase its own tagline) all "women in trouble". The film's litany of flickering screens meant to Slant's Ed Gonzalez that it was clearly about "the ecstasy and healing power of watching movies", while for others the cursed production framing the rest of the movie constituted a poisoned valentine to old Hollywood and/or the modern film industry.

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2007/mar/09/whatisdavidlynchsinlandem

    Basically they all show the results of emotional trauma and some kind of complete mental breakdown, Lynch shows the internal workings of these fractured individuals minds, like a twisted kaleidoscope of pain and anguish somehow made visible and projected onscreen. The mans a bloody genius mate no question about it.

    Falling in love with Analord

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    On 7/26/2019 at 7:21 PM, Brisbot said:

    I'd be 90% fine with it and 10% creeped out. It's more akin to having a lot of eyes on you IRL typed creeped out. Not worried about perverts typed creeped out.

    We're hardly the paparazzi, completely different.

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