Inland Empire
THURSDAY, MAY 19 AT 7:00PM
Passes Accepted
A murder mystery. A film-within-a-film. A woman in trouble. David Lynch’s hallucinatory vision returns to the big screen in a newly remastered version overseen by the filmmaker himself, with Laura Dern giving a tour-de-force performance as, perhaps, an actress whose dream role in a Hollywood production quickly devolves into a nightmare of Lynchian proportions. Intrigued by the possibilities of early-aughts consumer-grade digital video, Lynch started out shooting tests with Dern and then grafted on scenes of Hollywood machinations, conjugal intrigue, Polish curses, and even a rabbit-headed sitcom parody. The result is as strange, unpredictable and utterly compelling as anything the filmmaker has ever done, both an epic recap of a career—including appearances by Lynch veterans Justin Theroux, Laura Harring, Grace Zabriskie, Diane Ladd, and the inimitable Harry Dean Stanton—and his most radical and experimental movie since Eraserhead. (Dir. by David Lynch, 2006, USA, 180 mins., Not Rated)