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“2001: A Space Odyssey”: What It Means, and How It Was Made | The New Yorker

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Fifty years ago this spring, Stanley Kubrick’s confounding sci-fi masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” had its premières across the country. In the annals of audience restlessness, these evenings rival the opening night of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” in 1913, when Parisians in osprey and tails reportedly brandished their canes and pelted the dancers with objects. …

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The Criterion Collection – The Current – Justin Theroux on the Magical Mysteries of David Lynch

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One of the great delights of watching a David Lynch movie comes from the thrill of exploring the film’s mysterious depths. Here, in an online-exclusive excerpt from a new interview with actor Justin Theroux, conducted for Criterion’s release of Lynch’s heartbreaking Hollywood love story Mulholland Dr., the film’s costar discusses the confounding nature of Lynch’s …

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Donald Trump’s America and the Visions of David Lynch | The New Yorker

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Before his brief stint in the social-media shooting gallery this past week as an alleged Donald Trump supporter, David Lynch was more closely associated with a different Republican President: Ronald Reagan. The opening sequence of “Blue Velvet” (1986), the film that came to define Lynch in the popular imagination, is a heightened, slow-motion vision of …

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