Hmmm…I may listen to this out of sheer curiosity, but I’m not sure I’m in a hurry to couple it to the film. As a (by the sound of things) equally impressionable 20-year-old undergrad watching it during the long summer break (with – accordingly, and perhaps tellingly – little else to occupy my mind), I was more freaked out by it than I have been by anything before or since (I remember having difficulty sleeping for about a week afterwards). While there’s Lynch with which I’ve either happily re-bamboozled myself, or can imagine myself doing so (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive – hell, even Dune), Eraserhead has never tempted me back during the succeeding 20-plus years.
I agree that Eraserhead is a much more disquieting experience than those films you mentioned (but, i would say, on a par with both Lost Highway and INLAND EMPIRE, both remarkable films), i do think you’ll find the experience radically shifted with the Cat Temper score. My advice would be precisely not to listen to it first, so that the way it works with the movie won’t be pre-empted in any way. Try it!
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Hmmm…I may listen to this out of sheer curiosity, but I’m not sure I’m in a hurry to couple it to the film. As a (by the sound of things) equally impressionable 20-year-old undergrad watching it during the long summer break (with – accordingly, and perhaps tellingly – little else to occupy my mind), I was more freaked out by it than I have been by anything before or since (I remember having difficulty sleeping for about a week afterwards). While there’s Lynch with which I’ve either happily re-bamboozled myself, or can imagine myself doing so (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive – hell, even Dune), Eraserhead has never tempted me back during the succeeding 20-plus years.
I agree that Eraserhead is a much more disquieting experience than those films you mentioned (but, i would say, on a par with both Lost Highway and INLAND EMPIRE, both remarkable films), i do think you’ll find the experience radically shifted with the Cat Temper score. My advice would be precisely not to listen to it first, so that the way it works with the movie won’t be pre-empted in any way. Try it!