Comments on: David Lynch Folds Space: Because He Is the Kwisatz Haderach!… http://parallax-view.org/2008/11/24/david-lynch-folds-space-because-he-is-the-kwisatz-haderach/ Smart Words About Cinema Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:55:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce Reid http://parallax-view.org/2008/11/24/david-lynch-folds-space-because-he-is-the-kwisatz-haderach/comment-page-1/#comment-863 Bruce Reid Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:16:12 +0000 http://parallax-view.org/?p=845#comment-863 Lynch has perhaps never "folded" space so strikingly or with more cinematic ingenuity than in "Premonition Following an Evil Deed," his magnificent short for Lumière and Company. The making-of sequence is nearly as riveting as the film itself, showing the meticulous planning and crackerjack team effort it took to come up with 90 seconds of footage that bypasses all rationality while making perfect sense. Somewhat irrelevantly, as a science fiction fan who gamely whispered plot explanations to a friend throughout our opening-day viewing of Dune, I'll take Lynch's unsettling note of messianic triumph over Herbert's court-procedural tidying up any day. Though I have wondered what Lynch planned for the sequels he'd scripted out given his already apocalyptic finale. Lynch has perhaps never “folded” space so strikingly or with more cinematic ingenuity than in “Premonition Following an Evil Deed,” his magnificent short for Lumière and Company. The making-of sequence is nearly as riveting as the film itself, showing the meticulous planning and crackerjack team effort it took to come up with 90 seconds of footage that bypasses all rationality while making perfect sense.

Somewhat irrelevantly, as a science fiction fan who gamely whispered plot explanations to a friend throughout our opening-day viewing of Dune, I’ll take Lynch’s unsettling note of messianic triumph over Herbert’s court-procedural tidying up any day. Though I have wondered what Lynch planned for the sequels he’d scripted out given his already apocalyptic finale.

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