Well, the Inland Empire review is up at Roger Ebert’s site (even though he didn’t review it). It’s tempting me to drive all the way up to Chicago to see it tonight: one of a handful of showings that the film is ever going to have:

“It is, after all, overtly about the relationship between the movie and the observer, the actor and the performance, the watcher and the watched (and the watch).

[…]you might say, “Inland Empire” is a digital film, through and through. Not because Lynch shot it with the relatively small Sony PD-150 digicam and fell in love with the smeary, malleable and unstable texture of digital video (where the brightest Los Angeles sunlight can be as void and terrifying as the darkest shadow) or because the first pieces of the movie were digital shorts he made for his Web site before they grew and crystallized into a narrative idea. “Inland Empire” unfolds in a digital world (a replication of consciousness itself — hence the title), where events really do transpire in multiple locations at the same time (or multiple times at the same place), observers are anywhere and everywhere at once, and realities are endlessly duplicable, repeatable and tweakable.”

These comment reminds me of Silent Hill 4.

Anyways, yeah, the DVD comes out in June, so I don’t have too long to wait. I really love David Lynch, and a new film from him always does the trick for me. I guess that if I wanted to pay the outrageous amounts that his website asks for I could have seen the opening shots of the film, but no way can I afford Lynch’s website fees.

EDIT: Ok, looking at the review I see that it’s playing at the Music Box theatre in Chicago. Just reading the name was enough to send me into nostalgia mode where I remembered the many times I had gone there when I lived in the area and also went to college downtown. I feel a sudden pang to beg my boss to leave work so that I can drive up to Chicago and hope to God the showing isn’t sold out. I really miss Chicago… I guess I had managed to put it out of my mind until now.