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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43084.0&return_msg=43084.16"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43084.1">1–10</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43084.11">11–17</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=43084.16">David Lynch, him gorn</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="43084_16_17_10"> <a name="a43084_16"></a><div class="message" id="message_43084_16"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">22 Jan 15:23</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 22 Jan 15:53"></span></span> <span class="message_count">16 of 17</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43084.16">43084.16</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43084.15">43084.15</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Surely it's only a coincidence that "Lynchian" (click) is attached to the review headline (click), days after the obituaries and assorted, breathless hosannas.<br /> <br /> I'm a big admirer myself, and so I'm very interested in all of Lynch's trajectory: the striving, the triumphs, and yes the failures. Within a certain cultural context, he was an original, though perhaps less so than his most uncritical consumers realize. Go out there and seek Lynchian stuff that predates Lynch, or occurred independently, it's not difficult even if it's not necessarily ironic. Lynch was about looking under the surface, if nothing else.<br /> <br /> The comparison does a disservice to the photographer under review. He is unwhite(!), unamerican(!), and (according to the review synopsis) produces "a photographic world view influenced by French modernism, new wave aesthetics, creolisation and Haitian spiritualism."<br /> <br /> FWIW almost all photographs can have a "dreamlike" quality, because they are all unreal representations of reality. This makes it really difficult to separate out imputed artistic intention from snapshot randomness.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43084.16&return_msg=43084.16" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43084.16"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43084_17"></a><div class="message" id="message_43084_17"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: william (WILLIAMA)<span class="message_time">24 Jan 08:54</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">17 of 17</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43084.17">43084.17</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43084.16#a43084_16" target="_self">43084.16</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Not much by way of commemoration, but IMDB did feature a "rating list" of his work which was an interesting reminder of some of his lesser known things - which Jim has kindly given me the opportunity to view (in one case for the first time). I have never seen <em>The Straight Story</em> and I shall watch with interest.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43084.17&return_msg=43084.16" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43084.17"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body>