#593 - On High in Blue Tomorrows (Part 1)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We pay tribute to the late, great David Lynch with a two-part discussion of his strangest, most abrasive, and arguably most innovative feature. We discuss how INLAND EMPIRE (2006) confounded expectations with its low-budget production, free-associative style, and startling use of digital video, and begin to unpacked its multilayered story. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
0:19.8	Luke Savage, welcome back.
0:21.2	Not too much politics on this episode. Instead, we will be doing, I guess, our David Lynch
0:26.4	tribute episode. Yeah, this is going to be a special episode. We do have a specific film to
0:30.6	talk about, but I guess first I thought it might be good to share some more general thoughts
0:35.5	about Lynch and our relationship to him. I had the
0:38.9	opportunity to write a remembrance of Lynch for the Toronto Star, which will link to. He's been
0:44.0	on my mind a lot since I heard the news. I think I heard it from you will. I think I was working on
0:48.9	something else in the middle of the day. Got a notification about it. And it's one of those things
0:53.4	that, I don't know, initially
0:54.3	it kind of didn't scan. I had to read it a few times. I was really quite surprised by it. I hadn't
1:00.3	heard the news about his emphysema diagnosis. And, you know, he wasn't that old. And I have to say,
1:06.1	it actually affected me quite a lot more so than, I don't know, other famous or well-known people dying have typically affected me.
1:15.0	I was surprised a little bit just by the huge outpouring of grief, mostly because I had always assumed he was a more niche artist than that, you know, making difficult, abrasive, boundary-pushing movies. You know, he's had a relationship
1:30.3	with the zeitgeist. Twin Peaks obviously caught it in a big way for a couple of months in the early
1:36.1	90s. Even the Twin Peaks revival, I thought, sort of played to a self-selected cinephile audience. I was
1:42.8	struck by how, you know, his work reached more broadly than I
1:45.4	thought it had, you know, seemed to tap into certain universal experiences. Yeah, I mean, I think
1:50.8	it's worth registering just what an unusual and exceptional career Lynch had in kind of trying
1:56.8	to map out his career for readers of my Starpiece. You know, I was struck as soon as I got
2:02.1	to The Elephant Man, which of course was only his second feature film, which by the way is the only
2:06.3	one I haven't seen. That movie was so commercially successful. I got nominated, I believe,
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