| David Lynch's Inland Empire (Limited Edition Two-Disc Set) | 
 enlarge | Director: David Lynch
Actors: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux
Studio: Absurda / Rhino
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  142 reviews
Sales Rank: 2419
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Polish (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 179
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 183036
UPC: 858334001145
EAN: 0858334001145
ASIN: B000QQFKYE
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: August 14, 2007
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Product Description
Laura Dern plays an actress whose latest role sends her through a Lynchian looking glass of dark dreams and transformation.EXTRAS:LYNCH 2 (BEHIND THE SCENES OF INLAND EMPIRE WITH DAVID LYNCH)TALKS WITH LAURA DERN AND DAVID LYNCH MORE THINGS THAT HAPPENED (ADDITIONAL CHARACTER EXPERIENCES)THEATRICAL TRAILERS (3)STILLS GALLERY (73 PHOTOS)DAVID LYNCH COOKS QUINOAFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 858334001145 Manufacturer No: 183036
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Though Inland Empire's three hours of befuddling abstraction could try the patience of the most devoted David Lynch fan, its aim to reinvigorate the Lynch-ian symbolic order is ambitious, not to mention visually arresting. The director's archetypes recognizable from previous movies once again construct the film's inherent logic, but with a new twist. Sets vibrate between the contemporary and a 1950s alternate universe crammed with dim lamps, long hallways, mysterious doors, sparsely furnished rooms and, this time, a vortex/apartment/sitcom set where rabbit-masked humans dwell, and a Polish town where women are abused and killed. Instead of speaking backwards, mystic soothsayers and criminals speak Polish. Filmed on video, the film's look has the sinister, frightening feel of a Mark Savage film or a bootlegged snuff movie. Constant close-ups, both in and out of focus, make Inland Empire feel as if a stalker covertly filmed it. A straightforward, hokey plot unravels during the first third of Inland Empire to ground the viewer before a dive off the deep end. Actor Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) is cast as Susan Blue, an adulterous white trash Southerner, in a film that mimics too closely her actual life with an overbearingly jealous and dangerous husband. When Nikki and co-star Devon (Justin Theroux) learn that the cursed film project was earlier abandoned when its stars were murdered, the pair lose their grasp of reality. Nikki suffers a schizophrenic identity switch to Sue that lasts until nearly the film's end. Suspense builds as Nikki's alter ego sleuths her way through surreal situations to discover her killer, culminating in Sue's gnarly death on set. Sue's actions drag on because any sign of a narrative thread disappears due to idiosyncratic editing. Non-sensical scenes still captivate, however, such as when Sue stumbles onto the soundstage where she finds Nikki (herself) rehearsing for Sue's part. In this meta-film about identity slippage, Dern's multiple characters remind one of how a victim can become the hunter in their fight for survival. Lynch's portrayal of Nikki/Sue's increasing paranoia is, in its own confusion, utterly realistic. Laura Dern has created her own Lady Macbeth, undone by her guilt over infidelity. Even though Inland Empire is too long and too random, Laura Dern's performance coupled with Lynch's video experiments make it magical. --Trinie Dalton More Films from David Lynch 
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Not his strongest but still great! August 27, 2008
David Lynch is a true cinematic genius. That said, I will say that this is not his strongest work, but that doesn't mean this film is bad, or not worth the time. Quite the contrary. I just simply walked out of the theater thinking that it could have been about 30 minutes shorter. But even if this film misfires a little. It is still way more interesting engrossing than 90 % of all the films that come out today. If you where new to David Lynch I would probably reccomend "Mullholland Drive" to you. But those who are already familiar will want to own "Inland Empire".
 This is CINEMA August 27, 2008
This sure is what cinema means.
"In ideal world film should be discovered knowing nothing about it, nothing should be added to it and nothing should be substracted from it". David Lynch
I liked it August 9, 2008
Ok, I watched 2/3 of this movie 6 months ago and gave up.
But I talked about it with my daughter and she wanted to see it.
Fortunately she was able to piece it together.
SPOILER ALERT !
The Movie is cursed. This is made clear. It has been made before and people died.
The Polish husband who lives in the 50's style house is cursed and when laura dern takes the role she is thrust into his world.
His wife is the girl watching everything on TV. (In the Rabbit's back room)
There are multiple universes here, with the RABBITS being the gate keepers between universes.
They are holding the wife for her own safety. The husband has been trying to exchange dead hookers for her but they are not acceptable.
Laura enters their Polish universe through her role and finds herself in the girl/wifes life role.
LAura has to plug her way through to the end and beyond to save this girl reunite her with her husband,
and cure the rift between the universes caused by this cursed set of events.
In the end she does plunge through and beyond death, symbolically exchanging her life to free the wife .
She is freed from the RAbbts back room and reunited with husband (happy now) and son (Nikki has no son)
Then Laura and all the hookers are also freed.( and go to Pomona) It is quite lovely actually.
This movie is full of entrancing visuals, and acting that really sets a mood and sucks you in.
The extras are fascinating in the extreme and a right viewing in themselves.
 A Misfire Off Mulholland Drive July 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
David Lynch is one of my favorite filmmakers, so when I first heard that he was filming "Inland Empire" with a DV camera, I was doubly excited. Any time I hear that Lynch is working on a new project, it's cause for celebration, and the fact that he was filming the movie with a camera accessible to almost anyone made it all the more intriguing. Knowing that Lynch is an artist with little inclination to spell things out or dumb anything down for his viewers, I was aware that the 3 hour film was going to be a trip. As I have discovered with most of Lynch's projects, the trip is often the entire point in appreciating the film, rather than the conclusion, or any ending summation. However, with "Inland Empire", the trip is often rocky and fraught with an obtuseness that appears to be thrown in, not for art's sake, but for the sake of seeing how far the viewer will go along with it before heading for the door (or the STOP button).
I love the way the imagery turned out--the DV camera has served Lynch well, and though there are some exceptions, most of the film looks as though it was filmed with professional equipment. This should be especially encouraging for aspiring filmmakers, to whom I would recommend this film for that reason alone--it demonstrates how much can be accomplished without a great expenditure of money.
The acting is also worth mentioning. Laura Dern gives an exceptional performance as a film actress trying to revive her career by starring in the remake of an allegedly cursed film in which the two leads died. She alternately plays the role (in the film within the film) of a lower class woman stuck in a bad marriage (something that Nikki, the actress, is familiar with). Dern is never less than riveting, even when it's unclear whether or not she knows where her character(s) is headed.
Jeremy Irons makes an interesting film director, with Lynch regular, Justin Theroux, believable as the male lead in Nikki's film (and later, in Nikki's bed).
While the film is being shot in Los Angeles, there is an alternate storyline involving a woman whose abusive husband has her locked up in a hotel room in Poland, forcing her to watch increasingly disturbing television programming.
To be honest, three hours seems a little excessive for these personal dramas that, eventually, do interconnect, and therein may lie a big part of the problem. Because "Inland Empire", for all its worth as the product of a great artist and filmmaker, is never more than the sum of its parts, and those parts, in this case, aren't intriguing enough to warrant a lengthy treatment more befitting an epic. I don't hate "Inland Empire" in the way that I've hated some of the other movies I've reviewed here, but I didn't love it, either.
Delicious June 23, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The thing I don't understand about most people is that they say the films of David Lynch are impossible to understand. If you watch and pay attention, not everything is going to necessarily make perfect sense, but you're going to get the jist of what he's trying to do.
In this brilliant new film (certainly as good as, if not better, than "Mulholland Drive" in many ways), Laura Dern gives on the most terrifying performances I have ever seen as promising, beautiful actress Nikki Grace/ a low income, degraded, hideous woman who has nowhere to go.
If you want an idea of the kind of non-linear, angst-ridden surreality you're in for, here's an example:
about a half an hour of the film is devoted to Susan, not Nikki's, plight with a group of prostitutes, some looking like Hollywood stars and others
like crack addicts. She is stabbed by her Polish husband in the cursed film. Bleeding to death on the Hollywood strip all over the "stars", a homeless black woman says: "You're dyin', lady". Then a Japanese girl speaks in her native language--while Dern's schizoid character is dying--about a bus going to somewhere else in Hollywood. This takes about five minutes. Then the black woman holds up a lighter and says to Dern: "Sometimes we die, is all. Here. You see this light? You won't see no blue when you wake up." Then Jeremy Irons bursts in with his megaphone screaming "Bravo! Smashing cut!"
Either Nikki was never Nikki or she was Nikki and became Susan once she prostituted herself for Devon. Or Susan fantasized about being Nikki. In any case, this is schizoid identity crisis in the extreme, but more than that a very nicely placed punch on the nose of Hollywood itself: as in "MH", he portrays most actors and actresses as elitist snobs who are amazingly empty and superficial apart from their roles, wrought with hanger ons and arrogant directors. I don't know if this is Lynch's conspiratorial, paranoid fantasy about Hollywood or how it actually is. This movie is brilliant, exciting, terrifying, and simply enjoyable all the way around. Art. Lynch continues to transcend himself.
Watch out for the Polish lady!
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