Mulholland Drive

[Dave Monroe]

Had some occasion a while back to post at least from
Marek Wieczorek's "The Ridiculous, Sublime Art of
Slavoj Zizek," his introduction to Slavoj Zizek's The
Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost
Highway (Seattle: U of Washington P, 2000) ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0102&msg=311&sort=date

And see as well ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=465&sort=date

On other fronts, a friend sent this along today ...

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/10/23/mulholland_drive_analysis/index.html

Which not only serves as a sort of FAQ for MD, but
which also led me to ...

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/int/2001/10/12/lynch_interview/index.html

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/10/12/mulholland_drive/index.html

Still not sharing the apparent general enthusiasm
here, elsewhere, however, I'm resolved to hit at least
one more showing ... 

--- "Manuel V. Cabrera Jr." <mandelc at ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> I've seen it twice now, and i can't say enough good
> things about it.  I was a huge fan of "Lost
Highway", 
> but now the latter seems almost to have been a dry
> run for MD.  

> To use a figure coined by Slavoj Zizek (whose work
> on Lynch is the best such critical work I've seen,
> despite its failings), MD seems to give us a
> loop-like narrative where multiple diverging
> possibilities are constantly created but which
> fatalistically always converge on the same traumatic
> inevitability.

But this is very helpful, indeed, Manuel, and I'll
keep it in mind next time around ...

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