(And it's not that I wasn't ready for the material; I was reading, and cannibalizing, Apollinaire and Daumal by tenth grade, Sartre in eleventh.)
It reminded me more of Gogol or Dostoevsky—if Henry still had his job at the printer's, he would probably work in the next office over from Golyadkin or Akaky Akakievich, all anti-heroes of that luckless, disintegrating strain of the fantastic. He's not philosophical enough for Notes from Underground, but he's got hallucinatory poshlost to spare. I wonder if there are articles to this effect. If not, maybe I should write them.
(I've been noticing this more and more in modern low-budget horror films, but never thought to connect it back to Eraserhead... which, now that I think about it, is a modern low-budget horror film...)
Eric tells me it started as a project for the American Film Institute and evolved into his first feature film; I think their budget was less than shoestring. Speaking of which, have you ever seen Primer (2004)?
because there is no piece of film containing Jack Nance I have not been wowed by save this one, and back then I had no idea who Jack Nance was...
I didn't recognize the actor, so if I've seen him in other Lynch films, he didn't register (and clearly I must go back to look for him), but he is exactly right for Eraserhead. It almost is a one-man silent movie; the viewer's interest holds or falls on his look of perpetually assailed anxiety, and I think it holds.
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It reminded me more of Gogol or Dostoevsky—if Henry still had his job at the printer's, he would probably work in the next office over from Golyadkin or Akaky Akakievich, all anti-heroes of that luckless, disintegrating strain of the fantastic. He's not philosophical enough for Notes from Underground, but he's got hallucinatory poshlost to spare. I wonder if there are articles to this effect. If not, maybe I should write them.
(I've been noticing this more and more in modern low-budget horror films, but never thought to connect it back to Eraserhead... which, now that I think about it, is a modern low-budget horror film...)
Eric tells me it started as a project for the American Film Institute and evolved into his first feature film; I think their budget was less than shoestring. Speaking of which, have you ever seen Primer (2004)?
because there is no piece of film containing Jack Nance I have not been wowed by save this one, and back then I had no idea who Jack Nance was...
I didn't recognize the actor, so if I've seen him in other Lynch films, he didn't register (and clearly I must go back to look for him), but he is exactly right for Eraserhead. It almost is a one-man silent movie; the viewer's interest holds or falls on his look of perpetually assailed anxiety, and I think it holds.