Melissa Anderson will be signing copies outside the theater starting at 5:15pm this evening and also after the screening and conversation.
Melissa Anderson’s freshly published, compact ode to David Lynch’s psychological hall of multidimensional mirrors is as much a ballad for the film’s adroit star, Laura Dern. “What Dern does with her ectomorphic body, her elastic face, her accented speech,” Anderson asserts, “is indispensable to keeping the spectator tethered, if not held rapt, to the psychic entropy of Lynch’s film.” Likewise, her eloquent essay is a gripping, cogent page turner that connects twisting, tangential threads around her central preoccupation while pondering existential, essential questions about the actors and the authors of so many mesmerizing images and stories produced by and behind the Hollywood dream machine. She eloquently diagrams how personas, characters and people cannily and uncannily intersect in the Lynchian universe and beyond.