mulholland dr

David Lynch has left us. He made some amaz­ing movies, some of which we showed at the Evans The­atre.

I remem­ber show­ing Mul­hol­land Dr. back in ’01. In that era we were show­ing two films a week­end: one would play on Fri­day at 7:00pm and Sat­ur­day at 9:30pm, and the oth­er would be Sat­ur­day and Sun­day at 7:00pm. I watched most of Mul­hol­land Dr. on the Sat­ur­day ear­ly show, and had to leave before the end of the movie to set up for the sec­ond show (I was the late-show pro­jec­tion­ist that night).

It was a sur­re­al movie, with a lot of dis­parate things going on, but by about 8:45pm, when I had to exit the the­atre, I felt like I had a han­dle on what was going on, and how things were going to tie togeth­er in the end. I knew I’d be able to watch the whole thing on Sun­day night, and test my theories.

(For those who have seen the movie, I left right around the time Bet­ty and Rita found the blue box.)

Well, Sun­day night I set­tled in and watched the movie start to fin­ish, and, uh…

Long sto­ry short, I had no idea. Short­ly after I’d left the the­atre on Sat­ur­day, every­thing changed. I still am not con­vinced I under­stand what was going on, despite hav­ing read many an arti­cle with titles like “What’s real­ly going on in Mul­hol­land Dr.” But what a ride it was.

Farewell, Mr. Lynch. We will not soon see your like again.