Strangely enough I had basically finished this review before the re-watch of the series itself…which ended up being one day after the news of Lynch’s death.
Got way more emotions about that than I anticipated but, that said, I guess this review ended up being a time capsule of the last thoughts I had on one of my favorite filmmakers just before he died.
So here they are:
This is my second time through The Return and this time I…
lynch:
what does mean? i don’t think it really means anything, in the way people say something means something, you know, umm, because a meaning is a thing that—
everyone (yelling through cupped hands):
IT MEANS YOU WERE SCARED OF PARENTHOOD, MARRIAGE, AND THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, DAVID
A true masterpiece in the grand tradition of hyper-refined genre filmmaking.
One of those movies that I watched post-No Country but before I knew other films or filmmakers from that tradition (like Michael Mann or Jean Pierre Melville). But it felt like an opened door.
Always great to come back to a formative movie way later that only increases in respect after having watched a lot more movies—both that expanded my view of what cinema could be, as well as…
