Inland Empire [Blu-ray]

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Once the upscale was complete, the 4K image was brought into DaVinci Resolve for a new color pass to manage color balance and saturation as well as add a slight layer of grain. This 4K remaster was used as the source for the HD presentation on this Blu-ray. I would … shoot that scene, not knowing if it would ever hook on to any other scenes,” Lynch said in that same interview, “and not knowing if it would go, you know, wherever. I didn’t think about it.” Dern told reporters at the film’s premiere that she had no idea what the movie was about, but hoped that seeing it would help. Her co-star Justin Theroux said that trying to figure out what was going on in Inland Empire had become an on-set “pastime” for him and Dern. “I couldn’t possibly tell you what the film’s about, and at this point, I don’t know that [Lynch] could,” he said. Perform a post-mortem on this three-hour beast of a film and you will find only half a heart beating inside its chest, but you will also discover innards that coil in more grandiose directions. Mulholland Drive, possibly the greatest work of American film art since Nashville, is an impossible act for Lynch to have to follow, but the bug-eyed director—pupils dilated and imagination tripping in almost inconceivable directions—has made the Atlas Shrugged of narrative avant-garde films, compulsively watchable and insanely self-devouring. Emerson, Jim (25 January 2007). "Inland Empire". rogerebert.suntimes.com . Retrieved 12 January 2023. When you do this remastering you have to spend so much time rewatching and relistening. I remember an interview where someone asked if working in one medium forbids developing another, and you said that in fact one thing is always feeding another. Of course you always talk about fishing for ideas, catching the fish. Do the remasters feed anything? Are you catching anything unique from them?

In a hotel room, the Lost Girl—a young prostitute—cries following an unpleasant encounter with a client while watching a television show about a family of surrealistic anthropomorphic rabbits who speak in cryptic statements and questions. David Lynch Announces Distribution Partnerships and Theatrical Release Dates for Inland Empire". PR Newswire. 15 November 2006. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 28 July 2015. Part of the crudity of Inland’s harsh visuals comes from Lynch ditching celluloid in exchange for digital video. It makes for a jarring comparison to his earlier work, looking more like a soap opera than a film. Unlike Mulholland’s rich celluloid textures, Inland Empire (aptly subtitled A Woman In Trouble ), was shot on digital videotape and was a true 3-hour patience tester, one even more abstract and fractured than Lynch’s unusual oeuvre as it was cobbled together from multiple storylines that the filmmaker admitted he tied together only tangentially.Lynch spoke to IndieWire about Dern’s performance, how digital technology allowed him to get closer to his original intentions, and more — though not about the Cannes rumors — a few days before the “Inland Empire” remaster was set to expand to more screens. “Inland Empire” Janus Films

a b Lim, Dennis (23 August 2007). "David Lynch Goes Digital: Inland Empire on DVD". Slate Magazine . Retrieved 25 February 2018.The answer, is the film has never looked better, even on the Blu-ray disc, which is sourced from the 2022 4K transfer. There’s more definition in darker moments, and more natural skin tones than the original’s more yellowish appearance. a b Blair, Ian (1 February 2007). "Director's Chair: David Lynch – 'Inland Empire' ". Post Magazine . Retrieved 19 March 2018. T]he structure of Inland Empire differs from prior Lynch films, Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive. It is neither a Möbius strip that endlessly circles around itself, nor is it divisible into sections of fantasy and reality. Its structure is more akin to a web where individual moments hyperlink to each other and other Lynch films—hence the musical number that closes the film which contains obvious allusions to everything from Blue Velvet to Twin Peaks. Premio Future Film Festival Digital Award – 65. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica"[Future Film Festival Digital Award – 65. Venice International Film Festival]. Future Film Festival (in Italian). 5 September 2008. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012 . Retrieved 6 March 2013.

Description: Before he became known as the master of the bullet-riddled heroic tragedy, John Woo sharpened his trademark themes and kinetic action choreography with this whirlwind wuxia spectacle. Unaware they are caught in a deadly game of deception, a pair of rambunctious swordsmen (Wai Pak and Damian Lau) join forces to help a nobleman (Lau Kong) in his quest for vengeance. Paying thrilling homage to his mentor, martial-arts innovator Chang Cheh, Woo delivers both bravura swordplay set pieces and a bloodstained interrogation of the meaning of brotherhood and honor in a world in which loyalty is bought and sold. For everyone confused as to how there is a 4K master of INLAND EMPIRE, which was shot on DV tapes, here is how Lynch created this higher resolution using this process: a b c d "David Lynch given lifetime award". bbc.co.uk. 6 September 2006 . Retrieved 13 August 2012. Sight & Sound's films of the decade". Sight & Sound. BFI. 6 June 2012. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019 . Retrieved 10 September 2022.Travers, Peter (21 November 2006). "Inland Empire Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 8 December 2006 . Retrieved 6 August 2012. Strange, what love does.” The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble . . . David Lynch’s first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes as it takes viewers on a hallucinatory odyssey into the deepest realms of the unconscious mind.

Anything and everything can conjure new ideas. It just depends! What things trigger? We don’t know. We just live our life and, lo and behold, something happens and we get an idea. It happens to be an idea and we say, “Whoa, that’s a special idea.” They say ideas are thoughts. So we have many thoughts. But some thoughts, they lead to cinema; some thoughts lead to paintings; some thoughts lead to, you know, lithography. Whatever. For doctors, some thoughts can lead to a breakthrough in heart transplants or something. I've never worked on a project in this way before. I don't know exactly how this thing will finally unfold... This film is very different because I don't have a script. I write the thing scene by scene and much of it is shot and I don't have much of a clue where it will end. It's a risk, but I have this feeling that because all things are unified, this idea over here in that room will somehow relate to that idea over there in the pink room." [26]Using a new “4K” restoration overseen by Lynch, the results are perfectly fine but… interesting. The film (done insections over a few years) was shot in 640x480i digital resolutionusing a consumer-grade video camera, a DSR-PD150. He then upscaled the footage to high-definition and edited it together to form Inland Empire. The purpose was to show—before iPhones had even become a thing—anybody could make a film with whatever tools they could get their hands on, and they could still make a stunning-looking one despite any limitations of said tools. He pulled it off, but due to the standard-definition source (interlaced, even), it was always going to look a bit “problematic” on home video, especially the higher resolution formats like Blu-ray. Attwood, Chris; Roth, Robert (September 2005). "A Dog's Trip to the Chocolate Shop – David Lynch". Healthy Wealthy N' Wise. Archived from the original on 1 December 2005. Michelle Yeoh Recalls ‘Emotional’ 2002 Cannes Jury Experience with Films Like ‘The Pianist’ and ‘Irréversible’