Lady Blue Shanghai

"Dior tapped spooky film director David Lynch ("Mulholland Drive," "Blue Velvet," "Twin Peaks") in December to write and direct the newest installment of its mysterious short-film series.

The result, "Lady Blue Shanghai," art directed by John Galliano and starring Marion Cotillard, face of the Lady Dior handbag, has now arrived."

http://www.ladydior.com/

Interesting, though a bit too much like his short web films unfortunately—not sure if I get that impression via the dialogue or the camera operation/cinematography, but hey, new Lynch!

damn it keeps quiting on me just as the film begins

It's about a girl in trouble!

it looked like a film school dropout doing a Lynch fan impression?

Since his move away from celluloid most of his current output looks like this. He uses some pretty low end gear like a Sony DSR-PD150 which I guess gives it the film-school-dropout effect.

yeh it looked like a fanboy impression of exactly that, his Inland Empire style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvWAonuoMaY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vor65mNB8Uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msMehuZo3x8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhIWXaJUEZA

  On 5/18/2010 at 12:21 AM, Fishtank said:

It's about a girl in trouble!

omnilol

and yeah, largely because of the camera work and some dialogue, the whole short feels like one of his sketchy web works. i think inland empire was a bit too unjustly excessive in its editing, but tied together pretty well. eh, still kind of unsure about his future DV-only work. but he is legend.

I actually liked this a lot... the way it associates that weird feeling of longing for someone from a dream with the idea of buying a uselessly expensive fashion axcessory is interesting, either as a technique for an ad or as a statement about ads/consumerism... but that could be reading way too much into it. the ambient music was nice.

  On 5/18/2010 at 1:45 AM, KY said:

omnilol

lol