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We're revisiting 1986 this month leading up to the next Supporting Actress Smackdown.

by Ben Miller

I’m not a David Lynch person. My first exposure to anything he made was The Straight Story, the most un-Lynchian thing he ever did. I wasn’t around the people who cared about Twin Peaks the television show, the film or the subsequent revival series. I enjoy the levels of surreal like David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos, but Lynch is a level of bizzare I wasn’t willing to commit myself to caring about.

But, being the Oscar completist that I am, I gave a shot to Mulholland Drive, and I really took to it. It was during the viewing of Mulholland Drive that I realized what made Lynch different from other filmmakers...

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