It’s a great study on experimental movie making and sound in cinema. There are many jokes that Lynch seems to think are funny. I rather enjoy the slower silent sound scapes and less enjoy his visual effects most of the time. The many versions of agent Cooper don’t do it for me, and they actually distract me from the show. There are great actors in here who sometimes fit very well.
Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Beautiful cinematography. Fitting score. Melodramatic acting that works, especially due to the cinematography and framing choices. Incredible new visual elements such as when Veronika (Tatyana Samoylova) is running past the fence in the short emotional montage.
It almost pulled a tear out of my eye with the last few shots. My only quibble is the rape that resulted in the wedding I think was left ambiguous just out of conservatisms. By being ambiguous and not facing the difficulty story point head on, the film confuses and clouds and otherwise incredibly devastating and critical scene to tell a believable story.
Female focused films are fresh.
Jean Vigo's L’Atalante (1934)
I have to say, I was disappointed in the movie. I enjoyed the scene of the drunken sailor showing the woman his things. But everything else is just a day in passing.