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David Lynch Filmmaker goes fishing
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Naomi Watts (left) is seen here with David Lynch on the set of 'Mulholland Drive.'
Hook, line and sinker. The Ayatollah of the Abstruse, filmmaker David Lynch, has gone angling for metaphors in his latest tome on creative ideas, "Catching the Big Fish" (Penguin). "If you want to catch little fish," says the director of such head-scratchers as "Mulholland Drive" (2001), "you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper." Which he proceeds to do, sort of. "Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness — your awareness — is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, the bigger the fish you can catch." Well, sure, Dave. Got any other tidbits of genius (the bait), you want us to swallow? Often, one gets the distinct feeling that Lynch, undeniably a bright and impish chap, is putting us on. Makes one long for the days, not so terribly long ago, when he devoted himself to actual storytelling, minus the veil of obscurity, in pictures such as "The Straight Story" (1999), or much earlier, in provocative work on the order of "Blue Velvet" (1986) and "The Elephant Man" (1980). Felder 5 Film Fest Entries are being sought for the 5th annual Felder Film Festival at Folly Beach, a celebration of domestic and international short films that has proved itself to be one of our more engaging local movie events each year. Unspooling June 4 and 5 (7 to 9 p.m. both days), the Piccolo Spoleto showcase again will be held in the ballroom of the Charleston on the Beach Holiday Inn. Deadline for entries is May 10, and there is a $15 entry fee. Movies of 12 minutes or less can be submitted in any genre, including documentary filmmaking. Cash prizes will be bestowed for winners of the Palmettos Awards: Gold $500, Silver $200 and Bronze $100. For more information, call 588-9636 or go online at www.actorstheatreofsc.org.
Organizers of the Folly Fest also are associated with the Family Film Festival, which will be held June 1 from 2 to 4 p.m. in Physicians Auditorium at the College of Charleston. Information on the Family Fest can be obtained via e-mail at alamorelli@aol.com.
'Homemade Hollywood' A sprightly new work of popular history, "Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera" (Continuum Books, April), is author Clive Young's paean to the phenomenon of fan filmmaking. Would someone actually risk life and limb swinging six stories above the ground without a net, just for a homemade "Spider-Man" movie? Absolutely. What on earth would drive a young couple with a newborn babe to spend their life savings on a "Star
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