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iPhone or Airplane? The Worst Way to Watch a Movie

January 7th, 2008 by Scott Marks

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This 1964 ad for TWA boasts that for an extra two-bucks, they’ll throw in a full-length movie. There’s nothing more conducive to cinematic fulfillment than screaming, uncontrollable infants and flying waitresses jockeying their meal carts between you and the screen. This could be worse than Chicago’s old Lincoln Village Theatres 7 & 9!

At least this was in the pre-home video era. They would actually set up 16mm projectors on board and run a print for your in-flight entertainment! (Remember Jerry Lewis’ hilarious spoof of in-flight entertainment in The Family Jewels?) God knows how many prints were trashed because the umbday stewardess couldn’t correct the loop after the film hit a bad splice. More bobbing and fluttering than later period Katherine Hepburn.

As for holding your portal to cinema in your palm…I’ll let David Lynch speak for me.

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INLAND EMPIRE / David Lynch (2007)

August 29th, 2007 by Scott Marks

David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE (2007)

INLAND EMPIRE (2007)

Written, Directed, Photographed & Edited by David Lynch

Starring: Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Peter J. Lucas & Jeremy Irons

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Running Time: 180 min.

Rating: ★★★★★

The best film of 2007 had its local premiere last week. The bad news, it was held in my living room.

Hot Rod played something like 25 screens across San Diego County. The new film by David Lynch, one of American cinema’s preeminent visionaries, opened strong in Estonia and Slovakia, but can’t get a week in the #5 Hillcrest. I’m all for Landmark’s “if it’s gay it plays” policy, but the unwatchable Cut-Sleeve Boys (one of the rare times that I didn’t make it through the first cue mark) gets a week while Inland Empire goes straight to home video!

I’d rather be Lynch-ed.

Not only did Inland Empire receive limited release in the States, poor Lynch couldn’t even convince a major video distributor to bite. Perversely, the film is being released by Rhino, a low-end nostalgia merchant responsible for DVD copies of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, They Saved Hitler’s Brain and Ed Wood’s Orgy of the Dead.

I have yet to crack the supplementary DVD. Hell, I needed at least a couple of viewings under my belt before putting pen to paper. If you are looking for solutions, you’ve come to the wrong place. Everything that follows is intended to enlighten or, even better, further confound.

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