David Lynch, Laura Dern & Justin Theroux on Inland Empire

David Lynch, Laura Dern, and Justin Theroux discussing Inland Empire at the 44th New York Film Festival in 2006. On the occasion of the release of her monograph Inland Empire (published by Fireflies Press), critic/editor Melissa Anderson joins us for a special screening of Lynch’s enigmatic and singularly immersive 10th feature (from a new digital restoration, courtesy of Janus Films) on May 11, to be followed by a book signing. Get tickets: Written one scene at a time and shot piecemeal over a period of three years on a consumer-grade digital-video camera, Inland Empire is a work shaped by the conditions of its creation. The film, filled with disparate segments and parallel worlds, begins when actress Nikki Grace (Laura Dern), in her cavernous Hollywood mansion, receives a visit from a new neighbor (Grace Zabriskie) who foretells the film’s grave, free-falling identity crisis to follow. Inland Empire oozes, miasma-like, across