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Most of this breathtaking scenery is not gratuitous, for it adds to the image of the Grey Fox as a lone renegade who is at home amidst the elements. The film's flaw is its reliance on the scenery as a substitute for a full plot. At the end of the film, we are left, consequently, feeling unsatisfied, though somehow aesthetically and spiritually elevated...
Eraserhead, Lynch's first film, is a bizarre college of disturbing surrealistic scenes. The plot focuses around Henry (John Nance), his wife Mary (Charlotte Stewart) and the deformed creature that is their premature baby. The beast dominates their lives, driving Mary back to her parents' house with its incessant wailing. Henry, left to care for the monster, seeks an escape through his imagination only to discover the same beast within his own self. The tortuous story culminates with Henry's accidental destruction of the child as he tries to cut away the bandages that shroud...
...black and white cinematography, sparse dialogue and unpredictably strange plot twists of this cult classic prefigure all the weirdness of Lynch's later flicks. While the shadowy sets and often unintelligible action can be excruciatingly frustrating at times, the movie as a whole delivers a hunting message about the search for a meaningful existence in the technological desolation of the post-modern World...
Frankie (Victoria Wei) and Johnny (David Ardell), waitress and cook at the same diner, are two lonely souls attempting to connect. The plot of many plays about relationships depends upon increasing sexual tension. Instead, this one focuses upon post-sexual tension. After the initial consummation of their first date, the two lovers spend the rest of the night exploring what Johnny calls "the disparity of human relations." Johnny proposes marriage, while Frankie attempts to kick him out of her apartment. Witty humor punctuates the fluctuation between the anger and tenderness...
Richard Gere and Kim Basinger weave suspense into plot, producing a perfect mix. So, far one of the year's best thrillers...