Cinema Outcasts » Underground devotion http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts Movie reviews with an outcasted edge Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:05:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Eraserhead http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/eraserhead/ http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/eraserhead/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:25:27 +0000 peter http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/?p=266 This movie made me want to get into filmmaking. The eeriness of the movie as a whole (sound and visuals) is very terrifying. Most people have debated about the plot and what the movie is supposed to mean; nevertheless, Lynch has literally left it up to the audience to decide making it more fun to discuss.

Very surreal, dark and almost organic, this movie and Lynch’s style of directing have gone on to inspire a slew of copycats (Richard Kelly’s ‘Donnie Darko’ to name a few).  This movie has also created a cult following for more of Lynch’s movies. Fortunately this movie was made because it almost wasn’t. And unfortunately if this movie were released in our current American cinema, it wouldn’t have the same impact that it had back in the 70’s.  Thank god for the midnight theaters, and thank god for David Lynch! Sometimes we need to look beyond ourselves and dig deeper into our inner conscience. If you can sit through Eraserhead, it will be a great discussion with your friends and it will haunt your dreams.

]]> http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/eraserhead/feed/ 0 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/the-5000-fingers-of-dr-t/ http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/the-5000-fingers-of-dr-t/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:07:31 +0000 joseph http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/?p=218 The only live action film written by Ted Geisel (A.K.A. Dr. Seuss), this film is like if Road Dahl had written a version of the Music Man while on shrooms and gave the script to Julie Taymor to direct, and while I haven’t actually seen any of Julie Taymor’s films it seems like the best way to describe this movie. Jello Biafra has said this is one of the weirdest movies he’s ever seen, but as bizzarre as The 5,000 Fingers is, the most surprising thing about the film is the brilliant sense of comic timing of it. I can’t think of a single other movie that has made me laugh so much, at least while sober. Hans Conried, who’s voice you might recognize from about a billion animated films over the past several decades (notably Captain Hook and Mr. Darling in Disney’s Peter Pan), is brilliant as the flamboyant Dr. Terwilliker, an evil piano instructor who turns into a mad, child-enslaving professor in the boredom induced fever dream of a young boy named Bart.

]]> http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/the-5000-fingers-of-dr-t/feed/ 0 The Name of the Rose http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/the-name-of-the-rose/ http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/the-name-of-the-rose/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:39:59 +0000 lefrenchie http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/?p=47 Umberto Eco is the one writer that can talk about the dark ages better than anyone, and his novel, the Name of the Rose is without a doubt the apogee of his writing, that’s why the movie directed by Jean‐Jacques Annaud and starring Sean Connery and a very young Christian Slater, is a marvel that controversial nature keeps away to be mainstream, despite being an absolute cinematic masterpiece. Guillaume de Baskerville, portrayed by Sean Connery, is an educated monk with a trouble past, who is summoned in an abbey where evil has claimed the life of a few recluses; opposing reason to blind faith in a time when inquisition was an oppressive and dominant force that ruled; the movie is never hiding or trying to put to the sides the dark themes from the story, quite often stinging at the demonic side of religions.

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