Sounds like he was being cute, but not for a mass audience. I haven't seen much Lynch but the only one I really liked was Mulholland Dr. (I haven't seen the Elephant Man since I grew up with the story. I didn't want to see it in film.)

Move over Julie and Julia, I've decided to get my French cooking lessons from Jeanne. That is Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. It's going to take a bit for this film to sink in. I'm glad (in a way) that I didn't realize it was over 3 hours long, as I probably would have buried it in a second-tier to-watch pile had I known.

The film is mesmerizing at times, maddening at others. Minimalist, realist, largely silent. A static camera mostly set in the rooms of one apartment captures the household chores and routine of the title character -- a suburban housewife trying to be perfect and precise in her life and behavior, despite needs. You know something is wrong when cooking and quiet desperation are the highlights of your day.

Until Criterion's recent release, this 1976 Chantal Akerman film was apparently quite difficult to get hold of.

After a number of years without watching a single film (except a handful on Youtube on my laptop, I bought a $15 projector, a $20 DVD player and I'm back in business.

Dial M for Murder. Kind of static, play like. Grace Kelly's accent kept making me wonder why she's talking like that. oh yeah, she's supposed to be British. Distracting. And the whole key to the film is kind of boring. Actually it made no sense why he wanted to kill his beautiful rich wife. About the only thing good was the twist that she kills the killer. Too bad couldn't see it in 3-D.

Araya. a poetic Venezuelan documentary of salt mining. Though there is no mine, just salt everywhere. A tribute to hard work, routine, community. The Spanish arrived circa 1502 and enslaved everyone and sent shiploads of valuable salt back home. Amazing how greed takes over, and the powerful are so unwilling to share with the people who do the actual work. However the 1957 film had to be made in a hurry, as 450 years of salt mining was about to be radically transformed by mechanization. Great film.

Alice (1990). I actively disliked this. Lotta stilted dialogue. Lotta NYC apartment porn. A pretty thin adultery story gets padded out with a Chinese herbalist, who can make people invisible, but only uses it on one lame cheating couple, who use this magnificent ability to eavesdrop on other rich friends, to confirm more adultery by the woman's husband. Dreck. But Woody Allen sure likes being rich in white NYC.

Roger & Me. Funny, sad, human. The ugly side of capitalism. The clueless side of govt. Street philosopher Deputy Sheriff Fred Ross. I'm sure it's no accident they send a black guy to handle evictions. Lotta classic moments. Auto World. Pets or meat. Kaye Lani Rae Rafko. The overnight jail opening party. Really created a new type of ironic, humorous, political documentary. Just a great presentation that gets people to care about laid off auto workers, deindustrialization, deunionization. On the commentary track (circa 2005), Moore says that Flint people look at the film as somewhat of a good era, as things only got worse, with another 30K layoffs, more decay, crime, people fleeing.

No idea who I'm writing this for. But seek out Araya.