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INLAND EMPIRE Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: David Lynch, Country: France/USA, Release: 2006, Runtime: 168 How to summarize a David Lynch film? Better to point out a few defining characteristics of the greater topography. A Polish woman looks, intently, into someone or something...an actress (Laura Dern) is warned that her new movie is cursed... a rabbit-headed family perform sit-com actions on a stage set as if engaged in a solemn ritual... Such are just a few of the elements and recurrent motifs of Inland Empire, a mesmerizing surge through countless looking glasses that lands us on the far side of the land of nightmares. Lynch’s first foray into high-definition video is just as visually stunning as his work in 35mm, but the lengthy gestation period of his new film (he shot on and off over two years, and wrote as he went) has allowed him to give his own uniquely epic form to many of his primary concerns: The exploitation of young women, the mutability of identity and the omnivorousness of Hollywood. In the lead, Laura Dern gives more of herself than most actors manage in a lifetime, and she has a formidable supporting cast, including Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Karolina Gruszka and the apparently ageless Harry Dean Stanton. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

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