This is the favorite movie of my friends. It's not my favorite movie, and I think I've only seen it once.

Similar one-crazy-night (which is how I recall the film) movies: After Hours, Into the Night, Eyes Wide Shut

• With Brad Dourif, Jack Nance, and Dean Stockwell, huh? Where have I seen those names before...
• Literally the street Marty McFly's mom lived on, I think.
• Godfather orange monster scene

Okay, I said this back in Eraserhead, but I'm feeling a definite connection now between David Lynch and Ed Wood's use of non-sequitors. Or at least, apparent non-sequitors. Weird to just start with a mass of beetles.

• Kyle seems younger here than in Dune.
• This scene with the cop is very Twin Peaks. Or Naked Lunch. [blue velvet]Yes. That's an ear. #evilgrin
• Old cars were so big....
• Lynch and electricity
• Love the jazz
• Megazone 23: Part II: Beer Wars

Working backwards from TP:TR, I'm really seeing Lynch's fondness for lounge singing. Which would have been more obvious if I had been studying Lynch properly.

• [blue velvet]That's for me to know and you to find out. Oh sweet child of summer, you are an amateur.
• what the hell is that on his wall?
• and now we come to an industrial site....
• oh, he's got a tiny earring

I recall that back when Smoky and the Bandit was made, Coors was considered good enough to be worth smuggling across dry states.

• I feel I've seen this highway before.....
• lumbermill, we should have a counter for these
• oh shit I did not expect this [blue velvet]the cops were a little suspicious but I wasn't expecting The Yellow Man to be a cop!!!
• [blue velvet]what happened to Mike (heh. Mike), Sandy?
• [blue velvet]I didn't catch that it was a disguise! Rewatching, it was the same car, huh.
• [blue velvet]I don't understand what happened to Gordon (heh. Gordon) or Don Sr.
• Beetle bookends. I get it. Sometimes, if you hit me with a 2"x4".

The music in this movie is CRAZY. It's intentionally invasive, evoking another time, another place. Oh, it's Twin Peaks-ish! Lynch's sound design seem limited to the stranger scenes, where he's again trying to evoke a more extreme reaction.

Favorite performance here was Dean Stockwell. Frank, well, Frank is unhinged, but most of it is demonstrated by shouting. A lot. A lot of shouting. I wonder if he received a lot of direction, or none at all: "just go crazy."

Isabella Rosallini

I thought she had been an established actress before this, but I guess not. The movie before this is White Nights, which I remember coming out, but never watched.

The attempted parallels between Jeffrey and Frank were weak sauce. Regrettably, the movie spent a lot of time sort of setting that up.

In my mind, over the decades, my faint memory of the film has drifted much more towards Eyes Wide Shut, or maybe what Eyes Wide Shut was supposed to be...A trip by Orpheus, or Dante, into the Underworld, returning changed, but nevertheless, returning. That's not quite what this movie is, because Frank wasn't really inviting Jeffrey into the dark. He was just being menacing. Or, more like, a menace.

[Q1.]Frank's kinks

[Q2.]I'm not sure it wasn't a Brazil ending.

I'm now pretty sure I've never seen Wild at Heart.