inland empire ( film )
a film projector projects the title
inland empire
in black and white .
when it comes to movie - making, california’s inland empire has it all .
alongside lynch’s pitch was a banner with the slogan ‘without cheese there wouldn’t be an inland empire. ’
if you want to answer the questions ,
who starred in the movie inland empire ?
and
what is the full cast list of inland empire ?
then this page has got you covered .
lynch’s reasoning was simple: “i ate a lot of cheese during the making of ‘inland empire.' ”
this cast list of who was in inland empire includes both lead and minor roles. (15 items )
without cheese there wouldn' t be an inland empire & cheese is made from milk. get it ?
ie film commission services do include serving as an advocate to local government entities because the inland empire needs a new incentive bill, according to davis .
secondly after inland empire... wow... i wouldn' t be in a rush to make another film either, after that .
inland empire cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. this list of inland empire actors includes any inland empire actresses and all other actors from the film. you can view additional information about each inland empire actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. to find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career. the cast members of inland empire have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
submissions are now open for the inland empire film and beer competition which will occur on october 14, 2017 at the california theater in san bernardino california .
eligibility: the inland empire film and beer competition is open to all residents of the world. films must have been produced by january 1, 2016 .
copyright 2007 david lynch mc for the us and international. copyright 2006 inland empire productions, inc. printed in the usa
so that is my interpretation of inland empire, hopefully it is somewhat understandable. what are your thoughts on the movie ?
inland empire local resident rule # 1 at least one (1) leader who lives, works or has shot in california' s inland empire must attend at least their film’s total inland empire film festival (ieff) screening block plus the 2018 ie holiday eve awards show, in order for their film to be screened. (leaders who supply proof of having personally attended any film festival that is physically located in the inland empire, qualify as ieff local leaders). a production' s leader is the film' s producer, screen writer, production director, director of photography, editor and / or key cast member). all submissions must include in its filmfreeway cover letter that local resident’s name (s) plus inland empire home or office street address. submissions may be disqualified if this street address is not supplied in the cover letter .
attracting those film companies in the first place is the job of the inland empire film commission, the san bernardino - based agency that provides 24 / 7 services to production crews and scouts, serving as a film advocate to local government entities .
one of the submitted film' s leaders who lives in the inland empire region of southern california, usa is required to attend at least their own film' s block of screenings. see other rules to complete your submission! under 5 minute film
one of the submitted film' s leaders who lives in the inland empire region of southern california, usa is required to attend at least their own film' s block of screenings. see other rules to complete your submission! under 10 minute film
one of the submitted film' s leaders who lives in the inland empire region of southern california, usa is required to attend at least their own film' s block of screenings. see other rules to complete your submission! under 15 minute film
, dern mentioned that her husband was from the inland empire (an area east of los angeles county, including riverside and san bernadino county). lynch confesses he stopped listening to what she was saying because he loved the sound of the words
inland empire
, and finally decided on these words as the title of his movie because
i like the word inland. and i like the word empire .
taking place in california' s inland empire, an actress (laura dern) gets caught up in a mystery, landing her into trouble .
starting this year (in addition to its short film screenings) the inland empire film festival (ieff) will also begin screening five (5) ieff judge selected top music video award finalist (www. ietmv. com) .
lynch hasn’t made a picture since 2006’s “ inland empire. ” now, he tells the sydney morning herald that “inland empire” represents the end of his filmmaking career. it’s a changing business, after all, and there isn’t much room anymore in the blockbuster - and franchise - minded industry for creatives like him .
in order for a short film to reach final qualification to win top movie honors and / or the grand prize, its inland empire local leader must be present at the ie holiday eve awards show .
following is a list of awards to be presented for the inland empire film and beer competition competition. other awards may be included at the prerogative of the jurors and / or slate inc. management .
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winners will be announced during the awards ceremony to be held at ritual brewery in redlands california. a variety of awards and prizes will be presented to various winners of the inland empire film and beer competition .
“inland empire” is rated r (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). it includes adult language, partial female nudity, bloody violence and ubiquitous menace .
inland empire was david lynch' s first film not to be scored by angelo badalamenti since the two first worked together on 1986' s blue velvet. any original score for the film was composed and performed by lynch himself. a soundtrack for the film was released on september 11, 2007 .
one of the submitted film' s leaders who lives in the inland empire region of southern california, usa is required to attend at least their own film' s block of screenings. see other rules to complete your submission! a family friendly film which is under 15 minutes screens outdoors under the stars
when nikki gets a visit from her neighbour, she is asked questions like: - is your husband in your film? - is there a murder in your film? which also reveals some of the processes in making a film. what i love about inland empire is all the layers, that intertwines .
so, it' s finally here - the british release of david lynch' s mesmeric inland empire, a film i and other contributors to this blog have been over - excitedly discussing for what seems several years now .
lynch fans already know about his use of transcendental meditation and how it affects his work. the characters and scenes of inland empire are informed by his long time practice of tm .
the city of pomona, at the western end of the region, has been a local draw because of its “everywhere” settings in the inland empire, according to victoria howard, location manager and founder of film pomona in 2011 .
film noir: parts of the film mimic the genre, especially scenes of a private investigator .
a listing of credits on wednesday with a film review of “inland empire, ” using material provided by the filmmakers, misidentified the editor. it was david lynch, not mary sweeney. (ms. sweeney was a producer of the film, along with mr. lynch. )
the inland empire film and beer festival seeks short films from around the world. the shorts films can be narrative, web series premieres, documentary, or experimental. there will be a special category for those films that utilize the world' s healing beverage of beer in their film .
inland empire is a 2006 film written and directed by david lynch, starring laura dern. it was a u. s. - poland co - production. it involves a movie star becoming trapped in the world of her film as the result of a curse, reliving an old story involving infidelity and murder. the film takes place on multiple planes of reality. its tagline is ,
a woman in trouble .
inland empire premiered at the venice film festival on september 6, 2006, and opened in limited release in the u. s. on december 6, 2006 .
overview: the inland empire film and beer festival seeks to feature new voices in independent cinema. if you incorporate beer into your film that' s will be rewarded as well. this is a juried competition featuring a jury of industry professionals from a major hollywood distribution company, media personalities, and marketing directors .
up until inland empire, the straight story was the least recommendable of lynch' s films. the straight story was easy to follow and well - acted, but the drama wasn' t stimulating ...
inland empire opens and contracts in your imagination while you watch it - - and you' re still watching it well after it' s left the screen. it' s a long but thoroughly absorbing three hours .
cheese refers to the lousy work of hollywood, and without a cow, there would be no milk and without milk there would be no cheese, and without cheese, there wouldn' t be an inland empire .
every complete 2018 mv submission will become an award semi - finalist. plus its local resident will receive a formal invitation in the mail encouraging that artist to attend this year’s inland empire film festival (ieff) on indigenous people' s holiday eve, october 7, 2018 .
inland empire is a wild ride... . very hallucinogenic in nature. i am now looking at the david lynch movies, especially the ones between twin peaks and twin peaks: the return, to ...
the title of the film came to lynch when dern told him that ben harper, her boyfriend (later husband) is from inland empire. he immediately realized that he wanted this to be the title of the film. (source: catching the big fish, david lynch, 2006, penguin group, p. 143 .) lynch consistently writes the title of the film in all capitals, for unknown reasons .
since cecil b. demille’s “birth of a nation” in 1919, and shirley temple as “heidi” in 1937 – both shot in the san bernardino mountains – to “star trek” in 2009, the inland empire’s 27, 000 square miles have provided the perfect setting for hundreds of film - friendly shooting locales .
in my opinion david lynch has made three masterpieces, each about a
woman in trouble
: twin peaks: fire walk with me, mulholland drive, and inland empire. mulholland drive is by far the most accessible, really the only one which is accessible at all because you really have to be a fan of the show to enjoy fwwm and i think you really need to be at least of fan of lynch' s other movies to enjoy inland empire .
i simply can' t stand this movie. david lynch has his moments for me (namely
blue velvet
and
mulholland dr
) but
inland empire
is his most self indulgent and utterly meaningless film to date. laura dern is shockingly committed to this material, turning in one truly bizarre performance. no matter what lynch says (or does not say) about the picture ,
inland empire
is meaningless and the exact definition of artistic masturbation. (and believe me, i have given this film more chances that it deserves. i sat through it 3 times. )
i' ve said this before here a while back, but mulholland dr. and inland empire are very similar films in the subject matter they tackle - specifically as you say, the space or void between the actor and their audience by using film as a medium (or digital in the case of ie) - but they are solid inverses of each other. mulholland dr. is about a woman trying a to escape reality by falling into a dream and inland empire is about a woman trying to break out of a nightmare to return to reality .
inland empire (lynch for some reason is insistent on the capitalisation of the title) is an experience to say the least. whether you view it as one of lynch' s best movies or an elaborate joke on the audience depends on how you view the director’s work as a whole. i am unapologetic in my love of lynch and whilst i am not quite blind to his faults i am very much a fanboy. for this reason, inland empire is a work of mind - fucking brilliance .
“we want to encourage elected officials to vote for a new incentive bill – the inland empire needs this and it is imperative that california does this. combining a strong state incentive program with the county incentive program sends a positive message to the industry. ”
inland empire was, i believe, done all on digital cameras (somebody please correct me if i' m wrong), the format was new to him. if he had been using celluloid his final product would have looked much, much different .
now also offering the new entering hollywood actor intensive 13 day residency, with a new outdoor theater being built for 2018 (pictured above is the new construct prep fence), the inland empire film festival highlights explorations of regional / local film makers plus international talent employment support. every indigenous people' s day eve, southern california artists and other regionally connected film makers gather to share their work in an intimate, informal, pressure free luxury housing complex holiday short film marketing desert retreat in rancho cucamonga, california’s solamonte theaters usa
“things changed a lot, ” said lynch, whose most recent narrative film was 2006’s inland empire. “so many films were not doing well at the box office even though they might have been great films, and the things that were doing well at the box office weren’t the things that i would want to do. ”
in poland, janek and smithy drive to the site of a few trailers in the woods, looking for the phantom. gordy comes out of a trailer and tells smithy that the phantom is gone. he says that he “talked, mumbled something about inland empire. ”
california film & tax credit program has been renewed with even more incentives for filmmakers. check out the program on the california film commission website !
to qualify for consideration, an mv leader who lives, works or has shot in the inland empire region of california, usa must agree to attend at least their own film block. (leaders having attended a previous ieff qualify as locals). a leader is the producer, song writer, production director, director of photography, editor and / or recognizable cast member). submission must include in its film freeway cover letter leader' s name plus inland empire street address. submissions may be disqualified if address is not in cover letter. ieff prefers that the inland empire local leader make the submission. prior to submitting mv w / poster must be listed in www. imvdb. com. previously released mv submissions must include a link to its public urltoken post. any world premiere mv submission must include an uploaded teaser / trailer of the submitting mv or include in its submission overview section a complete story board displaying images in the production photos section of its submission .
barely over 10 years ago, in december of 2006, a buddy and myself took a bus 350 miles to nyc (with the sole intention) to see inland empire in nyc, knowing it would not be playing in our area. we took a bus back 2 hours later .
during this time, i learned david lynch was planning to downsize from celluloid to video with a project called inland empire. getting rid of all the “production” associated with film and moving to digital has tremendous cost savings. by omitting shooting on celluloid, we filmmakers would omit having to house and feed 42 people. we also omit the excessive equipment rental costs and several hundred thousand dollars of unneeded expenses associated with a project shot on film .
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lynch shot the film on a pd - 150, which is not merely an outdated low - end digital camera but one that doesn’t run at 24p (a mode designed to deliver an image that looks somewhat like film). the pd - 150 produces images that look like nothing but video. the visuals in inland empire look as if they’re decomposing before your eyes, as if any minute they are going to disappear into a void, and the extreme lighting adds to the effect of the film’s porous borders. [ 4 ]
i am sad to say i could not make it through' inland empire'. i don' t understand david lynch' s use of dream - like imagery. i was lost in the story, an found the film way too creepy and unentertaining. typical lynch fans may find plenty to love, but everyone else should stay as far away from this one as possible .
nikki / susan herself begins to show shades of this late in the film .
) the rest of the film does this to several characters with lighting tricks .
by rational you are in the' cult' of no film school then .
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david lynch’s inland empire (us / france / poland, 2006), produced nearly a decade after the films that rodowick discusses in the opening chapter of his book, aligns cinema with a form of spectatorship that is characterised by a sensation of disappearance. my interest in this film is not in terms of its place in lynch’s œuvre. what intrigues me most is the way that it summons cinema as (to borrow rodowick’s phrase) a “modality of desire” that is characterised first and foremost by aphanasis, a lacanian term for the disappearance or fading of the subject. in inland empire, the spectator finds him / herself drawn to a blind field —a space that one can look at but that cannot look back at you—a spectatorial space that is primarily constituted by the film’s engagement with ideas of cinematic scale .
lost in character: happens to nikki on several occasions, it' s hard to tell which scenes are real and which are parts of the film within a film .
the film was made by studio canal (who had also produced lynch' s last two films, the straight story and mulholland drive), lynch' s companies absurda and asymmetrical, and the polish film festival camerimage (their first film production) .
that being said i think inland empire is lynch' s most daring and creative movie, basically throwing away any concern for the studios or the audience and making the film he really wanted to make. i wouldn' t blame anyone for hating the film because of its nearly impenetrable story and strangeness but i do think the bizarre connections make sense in some way for both the story and the themes that lynch is trying to portray (regardless of how it was made). the film is extremely dreamlike but unlike mulholland drive i don' t think the film depicts a dream or fantasy. in my opinion the film is a lot more similar to twin peaks: fire walk with me as it depicts a woman caught in a battle between supernatural forces. i will give my interpretation of the events of the film and its subtextual meaning .
“inland empire” isn’t a film to love. it is a work to admire, to puzzle through, to wrestle with. its pleasures are fugitive, even frustrating. the first time i saw it, i was repulsed by the shivers of lynchian sadism, a feeling doubtless informed by my adoration of the far more approachable, humanistic “mulholland drive. ” on second viewing, though, “inland empire” seemed funnier, more playful and somehow heartfelt. certainly, there is nothing but love in ms. dern’s performance, which is as much a gift to us as to the director who has given this actress her greatest roles. it’s easy to get lost in a david lynch film, but ms. dern and her amazing rubber - band mouth, which laughs like the sun and cries us a river, proves a magnificent guide .
after taking the lead in a new movie hollywood star nikki grace learns the script is based on an old polish film, which was abandoned after the two lead roles of the film were murdered, thinking the film is cursed nikki' s imagination runs riot .
dark is not evil: many interpretations of the film indicate that the creepy rabbit people and the strange women that appears at the beginning of the film are actually trying to help the lost girl... but being a film of david lynch, you never know .
inland empire revolves around an actor, nikki grace (laura dern), and the tumultuous journey of her performance in a film that bleeds into and out of both the film that we are seeing and the film being made. but the porous borders between story worlds do not end there: the film that is being made, on high in blue tomorrows, is itself ghosted by an earlier absent and unfinished work, 47. in familiar lynch style, this journey sees the character unfold and fracture into various other characters and identities—with dern’s diverse, split characters slipping, sliding and being flung between these various interlocking stories. “i thought of it as playing a broken or dismantled person, with these other people leaking out of her brain, ” dern said in a telephone interview. [ 7 ] and with a sizeable portion of the action taking place on / through dern’s face as nikki and the character she is to play in the film - within - the - film (susan) and a host of other fractured characters hustle for appearance or find themselves thrown into visibility, this sense of people “leaking out of her brain” seems to be a particularly apt description of both dern’s relation to her part and of inland empire itself .
the problem with trying to come up with a single interpretation for this movie is that this defies lynch’s explicit intent. i’ve found a couple of other explanations that seem at least as convincing as this one, linked to at the bottom of this post. but before i advance my hypothesis about inland empire ‘s plot, let’s clarify some terminology .
inland empire situates itself on the fringes of the film industry as well as on the fringes of what we think of as cinema. running for an uncomfortably long three hours, calling for repeated viewings, and slipping over into additional scenes on lynch’s website and on the dvd release (also incorporating earlier short films by lynch that were posted on and made for his website), inland empire also largely bypassed the traditional theatrical exhibition route with lynch distributing the film and dvd (at least in the us and canada) himself. it is also the first film that lynch has shot entirely in digital video. and while lynch’s decision to shift to digital is certainly significant, more interesting is the kind of camera he used. rather than turning to high - end digital video for this project, lynch used a low - resolution domestic quality camera. as amy taubin writes in her essay, “the big rupture: david lynch, richard kelly, and the new cinematic gestalt” :
inland empire
presents itself as a hollywood movie (and a movie about hollywood) in the guise of an avant - garde mega - meta art movie. when people say
inland empire
is lynch' s
sunset boulevard ,
lynch' s
persona ,
or lynch' s
8 1 / 2 ,
they' re quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to stanley kubrick' s
the shining ,
jean - luc godard' s
pierrot le fou ,
bunuel and dali' s
un chien andalou ,
maya deren' s la - experimental
meshes of the afternoon
( a lynch favorite), and others .
the apparent obscurity of a david lynch film can be pierced if you follow the ear from blue velvet. lynch goes down a tunnel darkly: the ear in blue velvet, the keyhole of the blue box in mulholland drive, the cigarette burn in the silk in inland empire. down that tunnel you' ll find the underbelly of society, like the bugs in the undergrowth of the garden that' s being watered in blue velvet. lynch does something differently in inland empire, he brings laura dern back thru the tunnel (hole) - she arrives back to affluent society as her underbelly self. the moment is quite shocking when the' star' with her common accent is told to' get out' by the man who has been her seducer (or does she seduce herself /). following this clue gives an overview and an undertanding of the plot line. but inland empire is perhaps more confusing than the other two films mentioned because of the plethera of chracters, some who are not referred to elsewhere in the film, i. e. the man to whom the' common' laura dern confesses. perhaps some of these moments cannot be clarified but if attempted further viewings of the film would be needed and at a running time of 3 hours that' s a daunting task. hats off to laura dern - what a performance !
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but predictably, the most inventive ideas have appeared on forums, in particular that of lynch' s own inland empire site. there, posters have mused at length on what the director was intending the film to signify. the permanence of memory? the future of eastern europe? his own body of work? telepathy? the natures of men and animals? the terror of one woman (but not dern) at the loss of her husband and child ?
maybe i will come back, and write a more cohesive take on this film later, but right now i just want to voice how genuinely shocked and amazed i am by this bizarre film .
each officially selected ieff film will have devoted to it a separate, unique screening block followed by a five (5) minute marketing discussion of the film. that live discussion must include at least the film’s two (2) attending leaders. this allows after film viewing discussions to be much fresher and on point, since no one attending has to struggle to remember each work' s content .
how nikki and the other characters wind up in these rooms — how, for instance, the pampered blonde ends up talking trash in a spooky, b - movie office — is less important than what happens inside these spaces. in “inland empire, ” the classic hero’s journey has been supplanted by a series of jarringly discordant scenes, situations and setups that reflect one another much like the repeating images in the splintered hall of mirrors at the end of orson welles’s “lady from shanghai. ” the spaces in “inland empire” function as way stations, holding pens, states of minds (nikki’s, susan’s, mr. lynch’s), sites of revelation and negotiation, of violence and intimacy. they are cinematic spaces in which images flower and fester, and stories are born .
two instrumental easy listening tracks recorded by the mantovani orchestra are used in the film, both in conjunction with the filming of on high in blue tomorrows, highlighting the idealized, romantic style of the film .
top movie awards as well, professional entertainment industry judges will select in advance the year' s top movie in three (3) categories: short, mini short & micro short. winning films will be offered streaming distribution on our inland empire films channel. also, winning production companies will each be offered a submission waiver and special consideration for a single subsequent year ieff qualified film submission. further, only at the ie holiday eve awards show, framed winner certificates will be awarded to top movies .
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which brings us to the most puzzling part of the film: the scenes in poland, some seeming to recreate the ill - fated film that led to the deaths of its protagonists. of several recurring motifs, the most emphatic is an ancient gramophone player. if we indulge lynch in his use of metaphor here, infidelity is literally the same old song, going back hundreds of years, and the film is filled with crimes of passion: wives killing lovers, husbands, rivals. similarly, inland empire is riddled with holes, not in terms of plot but in imagery that echoes stab wounds and bullet holes, another visual rhyme that enables the freefalling nikki to go from one (imagined) place to the next .
inland empire is lynch’s true masterpiece in experimental filmmaking. lynch is so much more than just an eccentric film director, he is a true artist that brings you the gallery of his minds eye and leaves the interpretation of his art up to the viewer and allows you to see what you want to see. as with all the films and television lynch has ever written, from blue velvet to twin peaks: the return don’t fight it with your traditional sensibilities just go along for the ride and you won’t be disappointed .
“things changed a lot, ” lynch tells the sydney morning - herald in an interview published earlier today. “so many films were not doing well at the box office even though they might have been great films and the things that were doing well at the box office weren’t the things that i would want to do. ” asked point - blank if inland empire would be his last film by an interviewer who doesn’t seem to think that lynch’s 2014 duran duran concert documentary counts, lynch says, “yes it is. ”
a nightmare from the mind of david lynch. inland empire is his most disjointed and fragmented which also makes it the most dreamlike. his startling images instantly strike different emotions in viewers. at 3 hours long, this surreal masterwork is not an easy watch and can be a frustrating one but can be a rewarding one if in the right mindset. laura dern puts in a brave performance in the leading role .
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david lynch has never been one to play by hollywood' s rules of filmmaking - - or storytelling - - but lynch is trying something new for his latest work: he' s distributing it himself. and the director of such cult classics as blue velvet and mulholland drive has also shot inland empire on digital video - - another first for him. he still won' t say what it' s about .
if it sounds like an overly intellectual exercise, though, this is more a pop - art challenge than an ordeal, an experiment in comprehension that will surprise many who think that a movie needs a clear narrative to make sense. many will hate it, and that’s their prerogative, but for those intrigued by lynch’s recent direction — his incredible flair for mood and dream logic — inland empire is a terrific, albeit labyrinthine, funhouse of a film, rich with the promise of mystery in all its dark, inviting doorways .
of course, it' s also a tour - de - lynch, in which we virtually revisit spaces and images and faces (laura dern, justin theroux, grace zabriskie, harry dean stanton ...) that resonate with memories of
eraserhead ,
blue velvet ,
twin peaks ,
wild at heart ,
lost highway ,
mulholland drive ,
inland empire
itself - - and some perpetually unfinished lynch movie of the future. because, in the inland empire, nobody can quite remember if it' s today or two days from now, because yesterday and the day after tomorrow are all transpiring in the present tense. or, as one character puts it so memorably ,
i suppose if it was 9: 45, i would think it is after midnight .
klavier konzert ,
a piece composed by polish modernist composer boguslaw schaeffer, also features in the film .
remember, when filming at a private property in unincorporated riverside county, a film permit is required from rcfc .
antony todd is senior lecturer in film studies, london college of communication, university of the arts, london .
i was close to the sound during the film and it worked. i was mainly interested in finding the album to see the breakdown of tracks and the credits for each track. i didnt know this time around that lynch was involved as much as he is. although angelo badalamenti is not credited for music, he is thanked in the inner sleeve. i enjoy lynch' s continuity of sound throughout all his work including the direct influence i feel when listenining to inland empire, to a lot of his other amazing ethereal throw downs .
or they were for me, at least. thus far, the response to the film has been distinctly divided - if lynch' s last feature mulholland drive seemed to restore the warm consensus that surrounded him during the first series of twin peaks, inland empire has shattered it anew. (after the recent nft screening of the film, an event you might imagine to have been filled with happy - clappy lynch devotees, there were as many sceptics as zealots. my colleague xan brooks summed up the un - wowed school of thought when he told me he thought the movie resembled
the work of an old genius with alzheimer' s
) .
grand prize each audience member will create their own criteria in selecting the year’s ieff short film grand prize winner. annual audience ballots will select a single ieff publically screened short film that will be awarded a framed certificate at the ie holiday eve awards show. that winning film will also be offered future streaming distribution on our inland empire films channel. in addition, the grand prize winning production company will be offered a single yearly submission waiver and special consideration for its films that qualify during subsequent years of ieff participation. as well, this winning short’s executive producer will later be mailed an engraved trophy commemorating the short’s grand prize selection. additionally, this audience selected film will receive multiple entertainer. academy worldwide film festival submissions, where up to $ 100. 00 in submission fees will be paid. last years winner received 9 submissions on 3 continents to 5 countries and 5 united states. the result, so far, is 2 official selections: hollywood' s famous tcl chinese 6 theatre & a tour of schools. in identifying the grand prize winner, neither of the two leader attendees will be allowed to vote for their own film .
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stars laura dern and justin theroux have both said they have no idea what the film is about. see more »
and
inland empire
is very much a movie about acting, built around a towering performance by dern that is itself about giving (and watching) a towering performance. there' s a moment, when dern' s distorted, clown - like face is actually projected onto someone else' s head, which has got to be the ultimate actor' s nightmare :
this is what i do: i make big, grotesque clown - faces to parrot human behavior .
you' ll want to scream; you probably will. lynch has actively campaigned (with a cow, on sunset boulevard) for an academy award nomination for dern, and for very good reasons. not only is dern mind - blowingly terrific, but a nomination itself would be a meta - expansion / continuation of
inland empire ,
and the performance (s) she gives in it .
well you took the same comment thread and started talking about something hugely irrelevant, with frankly a very poor assessment of a film. this being film discussion i gave my own rating of the film in question and you absurdly inflated my score to an impossible one - and talked a out a' hot mess from south america'? ? talk about irrelevant
in many respects, inland empire can be seen as the latest instalment in this long - running cycle. and as with so many of its predecessors—most notably s unset blvd. and what ever happened to baby jane? (robert aldrich, us, 1963) — the woman at the centre of this film, precarious though that centre may be, is a woman in trouble (and a woman in trouble is also, in fact, its official subtitle). as much a eulogy for cinema as a homage to film acting –and female performers in particular—the two are inextricably bound here and are bound through the ways that the latter has served to articulate an idea of cinema that is tied to an experience of scale. cinema appears in this film as both a lost object and in, and as, its possible futures—when dern / nikki states early on in the film that “this is a story that happened yesterday but i know it’s tomorrow”, the story she is referring to could well be that which the film is telling about cinema itself .
in this sense, you might say ,
inland empire
is a digital film, through and through. not because lynch shot it with the relatively small sony pd - 150 digicam and fell in love with the smeary, malleable and unstable texture of digital video (where the brightest los angeles sunlight can be as void and terrifying as the darkest shadow), or because the first pieces of the movie were digital shorts he made for his web site before they grew and crystallized into a narrative idea .
inland empire
unfolds in a digital world (a replication of consciousness itself - - hence the title), where events really do transpire in multiple locations at the same time (or multiple times at the same place), observers are anywhere and everywhere at once, and realities are endlessly duplicable, repeatable and tweakable. this is a digital dimension where, to paraphrase jean - luc godard, there' s no difference between ketchup and paint and light and blood: on the screen, it' s red .
david lynch believes that his new film makes sense. in fact, that it makes perfect sense. and not only is he not joking; he’s saying this about the most screwed - up, far - out film he’s made since eraserhead. it’s a three - hour psychotropic odyssey that throws conventional narrative out of the window. characters mutate and morph, time zones overlap, and wormholes connect worlds within worlds within worlds. but through it all lynch maintains an astonishing sense of commitment that almost dares you to keep up: if mulholland drive laid down the gauntlet, inland empire (lynch insists the title be capitalised) is the duel that follows, a mystery like nothing you’ve ever seen before .
it’s been more than a decade since david lynch released inland empire in 2006. and even before taking on the job of directing a new season of twin peaks, lynch didn’t seem to have any trouble filling his time, painting, acting, composing music, making weird lo - fi commercials for his line of coffee, and, of course, extolling the virtues of transcendental meditation in the late 2000s. now that new season is done and ready to be unleashed onto the world, and lynch insists that the experience hasn’t made him miss the process of making a feature film .
asked point blank whether he has made his last feature film, lynch paused, and then confirmed it. “yes. ”
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the conversation between the homeless black woman and the asian girl is a reference to lynch' s short film darkened room .
well i spent two years editing my film. it' s been up on vimeo for 3 weeks and ...
similarly, in the decade where of all unlikely events david cronenberg went mainstream, his fine london - set portrait of delusion, spider, rarely rates a mention now. i have a feeling the more david lynch' s mulholland drive is (rightly) ushered into the canon, the more inland empire will become an unwatched footnote; and the garlands for there will be blood shouldn' t obscure paul thomas anderson' s wonderfully sui generis punch - drunk love .
it’s a fair statement to say that no american filmmaker has made a greater contribution to the realm of surrealism as david lynch. his debut film, eraserhead, still stands as a benchmark in surrealist horror, and lynch would go on to define surrealism in film through his later works blue velvet, twin peaks, lost highway, mulholland drive and inland empire. but what gives lynch’s strange masterworks their life and longevity is his keen artistic eye, his fascination with the light and dark of american life and his brilliant command of character and melodrama. it’s a powerful and heady brew, one that has earned david lynch a legion of devoted fans and earned him a place as one of the greatest filmmakers in history .
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even if that proves to be the case, however, lynch has pledged that the new twin peaks will be plenty cinematic. he recently told ew, “i see it as a film. a film in parts is what people will experience. ”
the film was shot with sony pd - 150 digital cameras. lynch at the time frequently stated that he was done shooting on film. lynch has since backtracked somewhat, saying that he is falling back in love with celluloid. he preferred digital because he could shoot on the fly with much more fluidity, not having to constantly stop to reload film, reset lighting cues and move clunky camera equipment. this enabled him to experiment far more, finding scenes as he shot and improvising greatly on set. he also felt that avoiding lengthy downtime helped the actors to stay in an unbroken mood. many scenes in inland empire mock the tedious nature of the traditional filming process, with nikki and devon spending most of their time on the film set sitting in darkness waiting for the crew to set up shots. every time they finish shooting a scene, a crew member yells ,
check the gate !
this refers to the practice of making sure that the just - completed shot is free of film scratches and
hairs ,
something lynch no longer had to worry about shooting on digital .
i have read that this was his first all digital film also. he was fascinated by being able to film anywhere he wanted at any time it seems. i also read that he made up a lot of the film as he went along. he very well might do this in all of his films though. he leaves things abstract enough to warrant it at times .
as an actress starts to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world starts to become nightmarish and surreal .
thanks for opening up the discussion again on this brilliant film. i hope it finds a more general audience eventually. and to anyone who is hesitant to watch it, the film is extremely effective with or without any meaning, reason, or interpretation.
inland empire is an internationally co-produced 2006 film written and directed by david lynch . the feature took two-and-a-half years to complete , and was lynch 's first film to have been shot entirely in standard definition digital video . the film is a co-production of france , poland and the united states . it premiered in italy at the venice film festival on 6 september 2006 . the film tells the story of an actress ( laura dern ) whose world becomes nightmarish and surreal when she starts to take on the personality of a character she plays in a film . the cast includes such lynch regulars as dern , justin theroux , harry dean stanton , and grace zabriskie , as well as jeremy irons , karolina gruszka , peter j. lucas , krzysztof majchrzak , julia ormond , and diane ladd . there are also very brief appearances by nastassja kinski , william h. macy , laura harring , terry crews , mary steenburgen , and ben harper . the voices of harring , naomi watts , and scott coffey are included in excerpts from lynch 's rabbits website project . inland empire was named the second-best film of 2007 ( tied with two others ) by cahiers du cinéma , and listed among sight & sound 's " thirty best films of the 2000s " , as well as the guardian 's " 10 most underrated movies of the decade " . 
inland empire is an internationally co-produced 2006 film written and directed by david lynch. the feature took two-and-a-half years to complete, and was lynch's first film to have been shot entirely in standard definition digital video. the film is a co-production of france, poland and the united states. it premiered in italy at the venice film festival on 6 september 2006. the film tells the story of an actress (laura dern) whose world becomes nightmarish and surreal when she starts to take on the personality of a character she plays in a film. the cast includes such lynch regulars as dern, justin theroux, harry dean stanton, and grace zabriskie, as well as jeremy irons, karolina gruszka, peter j. lucas, krzysztof majchrzak, julia ormond, and diane ladd. there are also very brief appearances by nastassja kinski, william h. macy, laura harring, terry crews, mary steenburgen, and ben harper. the voices of harring, naomi watts, and scott coffey are included in excerpts from lynch's rabbits website project. inland empire was named the second-best film of 2007 (tied with two others) by cahiers du cinéma, and listed among sight & sound's " thirty best films of the 2000s ", as well as the guardian's " 10 most underrated movies of the decade ".
inland empire is an internationally co-produced 2006 film written and directed by david lynch. the feature took two-and-a-half years to complete, and was lynch's first film to have been shot entirely in standard definition digital video. the film is a co-production of france, poland and the united states. it premiered in italy at the venice film festival on 6 september 2006. the film tells the story of an actress (laura dern) whose world becomes nightmarish and surreal when she starts to take on the personality of a character she plays in a film. the cast includes such lynch regulars as dern, justin theroux, harry dean stanton, and grace zabriskie, as well as jeremy irons, karolina gruszka, peter j. lucas, krzysztof majchrzak, julia ormond, and diane ladd. there are also very brief appearances by nastassja kinski, william h. macy, laura harring, terry crews, mary steenburgen, and ben harper. the voices of harring, naomi watts, and scott coffey are included in excerpts from lynch's rabbits website project. inland empire was named the second-best film of 2007 (tied with two others) by cahiers du cinéma, and listed among sight & sound's " thirty best films of the 2000s ", as well as the guardian's " 10 most underrated movies of the decade ".