a new art

Rating: 10/10 (21 October 2001)

I have always wondered why cinema has been so slow about developing great, moving, groundbreaking artworks. Think about it: think about all the incredible novels, paintings, sculptures that changed the concept of art in the 20th century, and after that go to the movies. What do you see? Films that could be scripted by 18th century bad writers.
If I really try to think about guys who have changed and improved film art, few names come to my mind, most of them Russian: Vertov, Eiseinstein, Tarkovsky... uh, and an American guy, Lynch.
With Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, Lynch has changed forever the way we look at actings, characters psychology and script. In spite of the commercial failure and all the stupid critics (where do American critics go to study film theory? at Verhoeven University?), Lynch is the greatest American director who has ever existed.