Movies with music written by Angelo Badalamenti
The entrenchment of a top-flight cast should not be considered an indication of cinematic quality. Although it's true that good actors can sometimes redeem a bad screenplay, more often than not, they end up becoming trapped by it. Such is the case ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Cast: Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, ...
Let me start with a disclosure: I have not read the Alex Garland novel upon which The Beach is based, so I'm not in a position to discuss firsthand whether or not it butchers its source text (according to some reports, it does). The film represen...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, ...
Blue Velvet is David Lynch in peak form, and represents (to date) his most accomplished motion picture. It is a work of fascinating scope and power that rivals any of the most subversive films to reach the screens during the '80s. For Lynch, the ...
U.S. Release Date: 1986-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, ...
In 1991, the creative team of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro introduced movie-goers to their nightmarish view of a post-apocalyptic world where troglodytes inhabited the underground and a butcher relied on apartment tenants to keep his meat cabin...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Cast: Daniel Emilfork, Ron Perlman, Judith Vittet, ...
Perhaps it's redundant to say that a David Lynch movie is weird (actually, "incomprehensible" might be a better word). Don't ask me to explain Lost Highway; I'm not sure I can. For that matter, don't ask Lynch, either. All he's willing to sa...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-02-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, ...
When attempting what is often deemed the most unnecessary of cinematic projects, the remake, a filmmaker can adopt a nearly identical plot but still generate an inferior product. Such is the case with Neil LaBute and The Wicker Man. LaBute isn't ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-09-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, ...
Guilty pleasure (n): a film that a critic shamefacedly admits to liking even though the prevailing opinion, as put forth by serious members of the profession, is that the movie is a piece of crap. Christmas Vacation is considered by many film ...
U.S. Release Date: 1989-12-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jeremiah Chechik
Cast: Chevy Chase, Nicholas Guest, Johnny Galecki, ...
Dark Water is the latest in the gaggle of Japanese ghost stories turned into major American motion pictures. The obvious virtue of this effort is that, unlike its predecessors The Ring and The Grudge, it makes sense. The problem is that director ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-07-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, John C. Reilly, ...
There was a time when David Lynch made coherent, challenging motion pictures. Love it or hate it, there's no doubt that Blue Velvet was one of the most talked-about motion pictures of the 1980s. Some consider it to be a masterpiece, while others vi...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, ...
David Lynch's body of work is surely one of the most recognizable of any living director. From the nightmarishness of his debut, Eraserhead, to the bleakness of Blue Velvet to the bizarrely compelling quality of his TV series, "Twin Peaks," Lynch ...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-10-15
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jennifer Edwards, ...