mulholland drive

[peter culley]

I am surprised by the general enthusiasm, on this list and elsewhere, for David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive".  Though its combination of anemic satire and soft porn is at least slightly more coherent than the dire "Lost Highway" it still seems to me that Lynch is being hailed simply for not being able to finish his scripts. "Mulholland Drive" was very clearly worked up from the remains of an abandoned TV show, and the seams show through in a glaringly slapdash way.  Was "The Straight Story"-- easily his best and most subversive film since "Blue Velvet"-- in which the linearity of the material held his mannerisms in careful check, discussed on this list in such glowing terms?  Any film which people urge you to see again if you hated it the first time automatically falls under suspicion.  Life is too short, and Lynch is no Jacques Rivette.  I'd be very interested, though, in which films (besided "Buckaroo Bonzai" list-members consider the most authentically Pynchonesque.  

pete c
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