Digital video has transformed the film industry and one director who has been smitten by the format is David Lynch. Tomorrow marks the director’s DVD release of Inland Empire – a film that received a memorable grass roots marketing campaign from the man himself.
Shot in digital video, this sees a woman in trouble with the title referring to the bleak residential area on the edge of the desert near L.A. — the antithesis of the tony locale of his last movie “Mulholland Drive“.
The DVD contains extras that include additional scenes entitled “More Things That Happened”, a making-of featurette, interviews with Lynch and the film's star Laura Dern, a photo gallery and theatrical trailers, plus footage of Lynch at home cooking quinoa?
I bet that many of us haven’t seen his latest experiment especially since this didn’t get the platform release as some of his other more recent entries. Look for more coverage soon – our own Benjamin Crossley-Marra will feature the DVD later this month.
