NEW YORK FILM CRITICS AWARD 'MULHOLLAND'
December 14th, 2001
Lets face it: this past year has been one of the most dismal displays at the multiplexes. I cant remember a time when there were so few unquestionable good movies to point to a spate of prestige flicks that said Yeah, Hollywood is justifying its existence. At this point, desperate critics and flaxen-haired entertainment reporters are naming not-yet-released movies as the best films of the year.
Only a handful of movies stand out: MEMENTO, THE MAN WHO WASNT THERE, UNDER THE SAND, and the showstopper: David Lynchs manic, schizoid Hollywood fable MULHOLLAND DR. MULHOLLAND may very well be remembered as the movie that launched Naomi Watts career, but its also the only movie appearing in 2001 that will joy-buzzer you out of your seat.
And now to the good news...
The New York Film Critics Circle awarded their best picture prize to Lynchs film. Most people had written DRIVE off as too weird to get an Oscar or ANY consideration. Could they have been wrong...?
In the name of everything holy I hope not. Because MULHOLLAND DR. was the only open-your-eyes, look-at-THIS film of the year. The only one that left you breathless.
The movie season was filled with a lot of indifference and noise; DRIVE was an elemental freak-house effect, and also the best film Lynch has made since BLUE VELVET.
(Oh, and...if you havent seen it yet get going! It has thrills, it has chills, it has the single sexiest love scene since the 70s cinema of yore; the direction dazzles, the acting is impeccable; the movie works in its formatted world like so few do: as a dream, as a false reality, as a glimpse into a sphere that is not our own. You know, its real good.)
Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com).
Only a handful of movies stand out: MEMENTO, THE MAN WHO WASNT THERE, UNDER THE SAND, and the showstopper: David Lynchs manic, schizoid Hollywood fable MULHOLLAND DR. MULHOLLAND may very well be remembered as the movie that launched Naomi Watts career, but its also the only movie appearing in 2001 that will joy-buzzer you out of your seat.
And now to the good news...
The New York Film Critics Circle awarded their best picture prize to Lynchs film. Most people had written DRIVE off as too weird to get an Oscar or ANY consideration. Could they have been wrong...?
In the name of everything holy I hope not. Because MULHOLLAND DR. was the only open-your-eyes, look-at-THIS film of the year. The only one that left you breathless.
The movie season was filled with a lot of indifference and noise; DRIVE was an elemental freak-house effect, and also the best film Lynch has made since BLUE VELVET.
(Oh, and...if you havent seen it yet get going! It has thrills, it has chills, it has the single sexiest love scene since the 70s cinema of yore; the direction dazzles, the acting is impeccable; the movie works in its formatted world like so few do: as a dream, as a false reality, as a glimpse into a sphere that is not our own. You know, its real good.)
Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com).
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