David Lynch and a life lived outside the frame

Mr. Lynch was a director’s director, an artist who operated well outside the mainstream, sometimes far outside of it, but whose appeal occasionally crossed over in both classic films such as The Elephant Man and the birth of prestige TV with Twin Peaks.  David Lynch as had a career perhaps as strange as the film’s… Continue reading David Lynch and a life lived outside the frame

“Barbenheimer,” Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and the dearth of original ideas

I cannot be the only one increasingly tired with critics hailing recycled ideas packaged in slick ways as modern masterpieces, nor do I think anyone should be impressed that a movie made by a small army at a cost of at least a hundred million dollars looks good.  Unless you are a recent arrival from… Continue reading “Barbenheimer,” Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and the dearth of original ideas