The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)

[Tara Brady]

Even The Elephant Man is more of a horror than Mulholland Drive. I'm fit to
be tied. So very cross!
On 31 Oct 2013 22:16, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Mulholland Drive is the death dream/journey of a woman in at least
> three different bodies. That is a kind of deep structure, overlapping
> separate identities.
>
> On Thursday, October 31, 2013, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
>
>> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>  I don't know Argento, but Lynch has deep and multi-layer substance.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps, and it also helps that his thematic concerns (or the conventions
>> of his chosen genre in Argento's case) do
>> not include butchering women in ingenious ways (although
>> Roger Ebert showed himself disgusted by what Lynch put
>> Isabella Rossellini through during the filming of 'Blue
>> Velvet', mainly because Ebert thought the film was not
>> worth such an ordeal). But how much substance is
>> there really? And is substance
>> necessary for a work of art to succeed? What does 'substance' mean?
>>
>> I am asking this seriously. I believe 'Blue Velvet' and 'Mulholland
>> Drive' are masterpieces. But what would be their substance?
>>
>> What I admire about 'Blue Velvet' and 'Mulholland Drive'
>> is in a way the same thing I admire about Argento's best
>> works: how close these movies come to being filmic
>> equivalents of nightmares. Not only in terms of the events depicted but
>> in terms of defying logic and reason by means of their structure.
>>
>> Just some thoughts. I will let this rest now because I want to follow the
>> group read of BE as closely as I can.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>
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