Criterion also recently released an awesome Carlos Saura film called CRIA CUERVOS. I highly recommend seeing that. Kino also released their second Avant-Garde Cinema set, with their “piece de resistance” being Jean Isidore Isou’s Lettrist feature-film VENOM AND ETERNITY.

I saw INLAND EMPIRE when it played the IFC in New York. What an experience…one of the highlights of my moviegoing year! Check out this article: http://www.slate.com/id/2172678/. Seeing the film on the small screen is well and good, but seeing it on the big screen–quite simply, you are trapped with nowhere to turn but to look at the screen. That “hyperreal” PD150 video look on a print made it look suitably more disturbing than it normally would have been otherwise. On the DVD, there are some rather entertaining extra features with Lynch cooking a dish called quinoa and likening it to directing a film. Also, there is a 40-minute extra which is an extensive look at Lynch directing the film.

Your comment reminded me that this was not the first time that Lynch and cows have been news: http://www.davidlynch.de/eatmyfear.html

Standout quote from the article: “Don’t you think when people tell you you’re allowed to do whatever you want as long as it’s not sexually X-rated that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?”

her performance in IE is staggering.