through Dec. 31

 Has David Lynch gone off the deep end? How many times have you asked that question? If you'd really planned that question in advance, you would have had tickets for the early December shot-on-digital-video film, INLAND EMPIRE  at the Brattle Theatre to pepper the director with your nswer questions. You didn't. Sorry. The movie's real run -extended, by the way - concludes Sunday Dec. 31.  It stars Laura Dern and Jeremy Irons, both of whom we like a lot. It also features scenes that Lynch would write and then film right afterwards. It does involve Dern as a Hollywood actress who is on screen for most of the film, and there is a movie-within-a-movie scenario. Word has it that the plot lines of INLAND EMPIRE come and go, and the three-hour film has more to do with color and mood. It's said to be his most abstract work since "Eraserhead." Be forewarned. The screenings are now all at 1. Tix: $9.

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