Directed by: David Lynch,
A woman in trouble. As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her
character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
This film is pretty impossible to describe, so I'm not gonna try. It's
David Lynch. It's Laura Dern. It's . . . wonderfully Lynchian. The 2006
film, Lynch's first digital film, recently got a 4K remaster, so Janus
is re-releasing the film to theaters, ours included! Indiewire
points out, the remaster is a "perfect way to discover (or rediscover) a
masterpiece that was largely ignored during its initial run," although
some may remember Lynch's Oscar campaign for Laura Dern, when he sat on
Hollywood Blvd and La Brea, with a poster of Dern and also a cow.
The original version of “Inland Empire”
was shot in standard definition video and output to HDCAM-SR tape and
35mm film; for the re-release currently playing in theaters, the footage
was downscaled back to SD in order to get rid of false details
introduced during the original HD conversion, then upscaled to HD once
again using the GaiaHD algorithm. Lynch supervised a new color pass and
sound mix that have made the movie even more immersive and affecting
than it was before, confirming it as another of the director’s
masterpieces about the fragility of identity, the ways in which
possessive men destroy the women they love and hate, and the struggle to
recognize what’s real in a media-saturated culture.