As with some other Lynch films, the music is outstanding: just a great soundtrack. It looks like Mom passed on her wholesome values. If you want a clue on why Dern would play such a sleazy role, check out her real-life mom in this film, Diane Ladd, who plays her mother in the movie. Laura Dern is also convincing as a trailer-trash-type. Nicholas Cage is particularly fun to watch and provides most of the laughs. I do, to some degree.enough to keep viewing this. You really have to have a dark sense of humor to appreciate much of it. This wild and entertaining film sometimes makes me shake my head in disgust that I own it, and at other times makes me just laugh out loud at the absurdity of it. In fact, "outrageous" might be the best word to describe this film, characters and all. He is so outrageously disgusting and perverted you just have to laugh out loud at him. In all my years of movie watching, I think "Bobby Peru" still has to rank in the top five of the creepiest characters. Make that ultra-weird.and the strangest of them all is "Bobby Peru," played by Willem Dafoe. The most interesting feature of this strange movie, I think, was the weird characters, one after the other. Phipps will join us in-person at the 2022 Wisconsin Film Festival for a screening of the unhinged Vampire’s Kiss, which is perhaps the ultimate expression of Cage’s gonzo performance style and must be seen to be believed.Outrageous! This is another sick-but-fascinating David Lynch film, maybe his sickest, although I've never seen Eraserhead. Our tribute focuses on the first decade of Cage’s career, where he established his wholly unique persona in a series of bona fide knockouts: the blown-out 80s comedy Valley Girl the Coen brothers’ first masterpiece Raising Arizona and David Lynch’s road-trip/head-trip Wild at Heart. As seen in past Cinematheque and Wisconsin Film Festival selections like Mandy, Joe, and Red Rock West, Cage is a transformative screen presence with the capacity to surprise in all manner of roles. Whether he’s portraying an action hero, a conflicted headcase, or a romcom leading man, few performers have bent such a variety of major productions to accommodate their unique, uncompromising creative vision. In conjunction with the publication of UW alum Keith Phipps’s illuminating book Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, the Cinematheque celebrates one of Hollywood’s truly singular talents: Nicolas Cage.
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