“Everything can be put into a film. Everything should be put into a film,” Jean-Luc Godard announced in 1967, following the release of Two or Three Things I Know About Her, his sprawling collage-film masterpiece that encompasses documentary footage of urban redevelopment around Paris, satirical Brechtian skits about everyday French life, pointed criticism of the US presence in Vietnam, scenarios linking capitalism and prostitution, countless pop-art images from the world of advertising and, among much else, that famous five-minute close-up of a cup of coffee accompanied by Godard’s whispered philosophical commentary.
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This past week, I attended a screening of “Inland Empire,” a dizzyingly opaque three-hour psycho-thriller nightmare, at Slab Cinema Arthouse, a small theater in the Blue Star Arts Complex in Southtown. Oftentimes, experiences at movie theaters frustrate me, typically because of certain types of people who disrupt the theater experience by talking with their friends.