Watch David Lynch's New Film Absurda Now

It's much better than Inland Empire. Enjoy.

Lynch And Lynch 2

David Lynch is the subject of Lynch, a feature length documentary about his creative processes, such as they were during the making of Inland Empire. There's half an hour of it, this excerpt retitled Lynch 2, on the upcoming Inland Empire DVD.

The director has decided to remain anoymous, being credited only as blackANDwhite, though Lynch's reps insist this isn't David, I suspect it may be Lynch Junior.

Interestingly, the documentary shows a number of difficult days on set with Lynch admitting he has no idea what he's doing, what he should do next, or how to communicate to any of his collaborators.

The DVD of Inland Empire will also contain interviews with Lynch and Laura Dern (hey! Maybe she's blackANDwhite... or maybe Jeremy Irons...?), something called More Things that Happened (deleted scenes, I'd imagine) and, taking a leaf out of Robert Rodriguez' book, David Lynch cooking Quinoa.

The long promised commentary track hasn't materialised. Neither did the long promised masterpiece though, eh, David?

Ben Stiller's New Film Co-Written By Etan Coen, Justin Theroux And Stiller Himself

Ben Stiller has been planning his next comedy film Tropic Thunder for almost twenty years, so it better be worth it. The script has been written by Stiller, Etan Coen and Justin Theroux. I thought this is the second Joel-less project for Ethan Coen to turn up on this blog in as many days and immediately got to wondering if there is trouble brewing at the house of Coen - then I noticed it was Etan, not Ethan. Etan Coen was a writer on Madagascar. Panic over.

Justin Theroux is most famous, I'd guess, for appearing in Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire and the second Charlie's Angels - but probably most recognised for appearing on posters in the window of Gap.

According to Production Weekly, the premise behind Tropic Thunder is a little wild: actors cast in a big-budget war spectacular end up actually becoming real commandos when 'everything goes wrong'. That really is some screw up if it turns the filming of a movie into a warzone - who's directing this film within a film? David Fincher?

Stiller reputedly cooked up the basic idea when working on Empire of the Sun, but it sounds like there are also trace elements of 1942, Three Amigos and Hearts of Darkness or Apocalypse Now to me.

David Lynch Is A Soldier In The Infowar

Infowars are featuring a video clip of David Lynch discussing 'alternative 9/11 theories'. Here's a comment from the site:

"Lynch's decision to make public his views is another encouraging sign that 9/11 truth and visualizations such as Loose Change are crossing the boundary between "the alternative" and the mainstream, permeating Lynch's decision to make public his views is another encouraging sign that 9/11 truth and visualizations such as Loose Change are crossing the boundary between 'the alternative"'and the mainstream, permeating the collective consciousness of accessible culture, just as Lynch's work has done over the past four decades."

Somebody should tell them that Inland Empire has all the hope of "permeating the collective consciousness of accessible culture" that, I dunno, a Crispin Hellion Glover record has of topping the Billboard charts.

Let me remind you that David Lynch has been campaigning to set up Yogic Flying launchpads, as it were, across the world. Just wanted to put that out there (and trust me - it is out there).