re: coen bros.

this is true, i do like chasing arizona. cage and hunter are such a sweet couple in it. but even like A Serious Man and Burn After Reading both left me bummed. i dunno, i should watch some more of their more beloved films like O Brother or No Country but i have a feeling that latter would fall very firmly into the bummer category. but its not even that i don't like feel-bad movies, like The Piano Teacher is among my favorites. its coen bros. movies that invoke this unique ennui!

re: theater ettiquette

ugh i hate a bad crowd. i saw a bunch of lynch movies this year, the FWWM crowd was TERRIBLE! i imagine a lot of people were coming to see it as their first lynch movie, as its gained a lot of popularity recently, but... that movie is kind of inscrutable without a working knowledge of twin peaks lol. a lot of people laughing at laura's anguish :-(

even the wild at heart crowd, oh my god... mostly good, but the ending. ok the credits scene of Wild at Heart is, for my money, one of the sweetest moments in lynch's filmography. i love it, it gets me emotional every time. but it's still part of the movie, right, laura dern and nic cage are still up in the center of the screen, while the credits scroll by on either side. the MOMENT the word "cast" appears on screen, HALF THE THEATER GETS UP! THE MOVIE IS STILL PLAYING, YOU GUYS!!!! HE'S SINGING LOVE ME TENDER ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nosferatu was pretty fun though, i agree