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    Under the Silver Lake (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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    • 1 DisasterpeaceThe Curse of Edendale 2:02
    • 2 DisasterpeaceUnknowable Things 1:38
    • 3 DisasterpeaceA Junction 1:16
    • 4 DisasterpeaceDependable as Sunshine 1:15
    • 5 DisasterpeaceDependable as Moonshine 3:36
    • 6 DisasterpeaceThe Reverse Trojan 5:26
    • 7 Jesus & The Brides of DraculaTurning Teeth 4:37
    • 8 DisasterpeaceWelcome to Purgatory 1:46
    • 9 DisasterpeaceSilhouette 1:09
    • 10 DisasterpeaceA Beautiful Spectre, A Pattern of Glances 3:30
    • 11 DisasterpeaceBeware the Dog Killer 1:33
    • 12 DisasterpeaceThe Cult of the Whale, & Other Tales 5:36
    • 13 DisasterpeaceShadows 3:11
    • 14 DisasterpeaceThe Accomplice 0:31
    • 15 Meek Bride & Her BandTo Sir With Love 3:43
    • 16 R.E.M.What's the Frequency, Kenneth? (Radio Version) 3:59
    • 17 DisasterpeaceSeventy-Six 0:48
    • 18 DisasterpeaceA Birdwatcher 1:44
    • 19 DisasterpeaceAn Escort 2:01
    • 20 DisasterpeaceDracula's Code 2:53
    • 21 DisasterpeaceAn Excursion in Griffith Park 4:17
    • 22 DisasterpeaceThrough the Looking-Tubes 2:55
    • 23 DisasterpeaceA Dead Carrier of Dreams 1:36
    • 24 DisasterpeaceThe Owl's Kiss 1:12
    • 25 DisasterpeaceA Blessed Creature 1:56

    10

    " What are they hiding?"
    Country
    Runtime 2 hr 19 min
    Budget $8 500 000
    Premiere: World $2 053 469 June 22, 2018
    USA $46 083
    Other countries $2 007 386
    Box Office – Budget – $6 446 531
    Premiere: USA $46 083 November 12, 2018
    first day $15 141
    first weekend $35 270
    theaters 2
    rollout 257 days
    Digital: World April 23, 2019
    Parental Advisory
    • Violence & Gore

      plenty

    • Sex & Nudity

      plenty

    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      average

    • Profanity

      average

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    Description

    Sam, a disenchanted young man, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment’s pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.

    Сast and Crew

    Production

    In May 2016, David Robert Mitchell was announced to be writing and directing the film with Andrew Garfield and Dakota Johnson starring. Michael De Luca, Adele Romanski, Jake Weiner, and Chris Bender were also announced as producers. In October 2016, Riley Keough replaced Johnson and Topher Grace also joined the cast of the film. In November 2016, Zosia Mamet, Laura-Leigh, Jimmi Simpson, Patrick Fischler, Luke Baines, Callie Hernandez, Riki Lindhome and Don McManus joined the cast. Composer Disasterpeace, who provided the original score for Mitchell's previous film It Follows, returned to write the music.

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    [Director David Robert] Mitchell has a gift for arresting and slightly discomfiting imagery, but he either can’t, or won’t, submit...

    The Guardian March 17, 2019

    It is too infatuated with its own cryptic mythology, too fawning in its references to LA noirs and too self-indulgent to be praised as parody, let...

    Independent March 14, 2019

    Under the Silver Lake has brilliant scenes but it also feels derivative and increasingly self-indulgent.

    ScreenCrush April 18, 2019

    The last time a movie this obviously a satire was mislabeled as a sincere depiction of everything it mocked was Paul Verhoeven’s Starshi...

    Culturess November 17, 2018

    Under the Silver Lake is a giant piece of gold-flaked poo that thinks it’s special when it should be flushed away.

    Empire Magazine March 11, 2019

    Under The Silver Lake is gorgeous to look at and listen to, with moments of genuine panache, but its wilfully labyrinthine plot will have limited a...

    Pajiba May 3, 2019

    A twisty and delirious fever dream, a movie that explores the extreme weirdness of Los Angeles and our obsession with conspiracy theories with dash...

    Globe and Mail April 17, 2019

    By attempting to craft a slick mélange of neo-noir, dark slacker comedy and puzzle-driven treasure hunt, Mitchell has produced a film tha...

    Daily Telegraph May 17, 2018

    Nothing in the film would work if Andrew Garfield weren’t flat-out tremendous…

    Utterly self indulgent.

    Rolling Stone April 18, 2019

    Writer-director David Robert Mitchell is too gifted an artist to write off for one slip up, but this L.A. noir starring Andrew Garfield as an amate...

    Financial Times May 16, 2018

    A vexing muddle of half-formed ideas that lead only up the garden path to frustration.

    Mitchell – using gorgeously extravagant camera moves and an orgasmically lush score – pays homage to Old Hollywood and is equally indebte...

    indieWire May 16, 2018

    It’s fascinating to watch Mitchell grasp for a bigger picture with the wild ambition of his scruffy protagonist.

    New York Times April 17, 2019

    "Under the Silver Lake" is less a cinematic folly than a category mistake, taking the sterility of its own imaginative conceits for a met...

    A tiresomely self-regarding story that not even Garfield’s allure can enliven.

    New Statesman March 14, 2019

    Pop culture can furnish us with potent hits of meaning, and the film rejoices in that. But it also asks what happens when they eclipse or outstrip...

    Riot Material July 20, 2018

    Under The Silver Lake is a love letter to Hollywood. Not one written on sweetly scented paper but rather scrawled on the shit-smeared bathroom wall...

    ReelViews April 20, 2019

    Despite all the devilishly clever moments, freaky episodes, and general weirdness, Under the Silver Lake is ultimately unsatisfying.

    If the destination ultimately proves a little less satisfying than the trip, Mitchell and his collaborators fill us with so many moody reverie...

    Vox May 19, 2018

    It’s no Mulholland Drive, but the point of Under the Silver Lake rhymes with themes from David Lynch’s masterpiece: that lifetimes of w...

    Boston Globe July 4, 2019

    If a talented filmmaker opening the throttle of his imagination as wide as it can go appeals to you, you should give "Under the Silver Lake"&n...

    The Guardian May 16, 2018

    This film just wades into a murky lake of self-consciousness and sinks inexorably to the bottom.

    film.avclub.com May 17, 2018

    Mitchell is taking a big swing with his third feature, trying something not just new but also more unconventional, ambitious, and even potenti...

    RogerEbert.com April 18, 2019

    It may not be an easy movie to sell to an audience, but it’s not an easy one to forget either.

    film.avclub.com April 16, 2019

    Enabling and mocking paranoid obsession at the same time might sound incoherent. In this hilariously demented spin on L.A. noir, it’s simply...

    Little White Lies March 12, 2019

    Bravo to David Robert Mitchell for having the guts to make this mad mongrel of a movie.

    Vulture May 16, 2018

    Pretty soon the commentary on how Hollywood uses women as decoration outweighs the fact that Mitchell’s just repeating the cycle – albei...

    NPR April 18, 2019

    We’re still early in David Robert Mitchell’s career, but Under the Silver Lake is evidence of a budding major director.

    Variety May 16, 2018

    Ambitious and fascinating. It’s the first Mitchell film that truly held me, the first that feels like the work of a potentially major ar...

    Slate April 19, 2019

    It doesn’t help that the plot is tortuous, and the resolution is an inarguable letdown. And yet! Mitchell’s ambitions, observations, an...

    Times (UK) May 17, 2018

    If you were being charitable you could paint the film as a satire on the primitive male psyche and its consequences for women. If that’s...

    Hollywood Reporter May 16, 2018

    Despite a compelling lead in Andrew Garfield, the tension dissipates rather than mounts as this knotty neo-noir slides into a Lynchian sw...

    Vanity Fair May 16, 2018

    Really, though, Under the Silver Lake’s most easily definable problem is a simple one: it’s a little dull.

    Entertainment Weekly April 19, 2019

    No matter how shaggy and self-indulgent it is, or how anticlimactic its big so-what of an ending ends up being, I was never bored. More than that...

    Financial Times March 27, 2019

    A tub filling up with so much floaty, flamboyant, haunting-or-traumatising film fluff – sloshing every which way – that it’s like&n...

    Observer April 17, 2019

    There is something refreshing about Mitchell’s playful approach to Los Angeles' sordid history of cults and murders, as well as the high and...

    Sight & Sound May 21, 2018

    Oddly shaped, oddly profound, and full of fascinating (or, equally, frustrating) flaws, Mitchell’s idiosyncratic shaggy-dog story is destined...

    Los Angeles Times April 18, 2019

    Whether you will find anything of lasting meaning is less certain. "Under the Silver Lake" is rarely uninteresting, but it smells a little sta...

    Detroit News May 17, 2019

    That makes this quintessentially Los Angeles tale a frustrating viewing experience, but its open-endedness will help it rally a cult-like...

    Irish Times March 14, 2019

    What irritates most about this supposed phantasmagoria – aside from the icky, possibly ironic focus on exposed female flesh – is its dead...

    Associated Press April 18, 2019

    Under the Silver Lake may be for you a satisfying experience, a sort of high-gloss, nicely crafted daydream with a good score and generou...

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    Watched

    A modern-day Lebowski of Garfield in the neo-noir National Treasure, accompanied by what-the-fucking-happening.

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    Watched

    A pleasant meditation by Mitchell in the genre of conspiracy films. At the same time, with humor, which is always a dangerous line in this genre, as it lowers the stakes. Many people may not like it, but I watched it several times with pleasure and they still don’t make anything like it.

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    Watched

    A conspiracy neo-noir in the vein of Pynchon and The Big Lebowski, it’s loaded with pop culture references but requires nothing more than interest and intuition to understand. Cleverly conceived: for all its cumbersomeness, the film feels like a light and cheerful stroll.

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    Watched

    Wooden meaning. Very pretentious neo-noir. Garfield certainly tries, but somehow it doesn’t work. I would like it to be a little simpler. But it turned out very strange. You need to read signs that lead nowhere. Only confuse. If this is the goal, then it has been achieved. The result was not very pleasing.

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    Watched

    A little bit of Inherent Vice in the style of the golden age of Hollywood and a little bit of Mulholand Drive but without the horror. The film is a mood film in which the plot is not the main thing. And also The Mind-Blowing Fantasies of Charlie Swan III and even The Limits of Control

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    A film about Hollywood falsehood and self-interest. Those who did not notice the deep meaning did not look carefully. You can safely give it 10 out of 10 for the visuals.

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    Watched

    Incredibly unpredictable & mysterious interesting plot

    Watched

    I have a feeling of sadness after watching it. This is not the first time I have noticed how Garfield’s characters wander in search of truth. For example, in the same Silence. Of course, in order to fully appreciate the picture, you would need to study the films to which the work refers, but oh well))

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    Watched

    A crazy postmodernist-satirical cocktail of conspiracy theories, noir detectives, elegantly intertwined with the existential crisis of a typical millennial and seasoned with explosive, unexpected ironic humor. Mitchell created a gorgeous work, which, alas, not many appreciated.

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    Watched

    Well, I don’t really need to solve a crossword puzzle. I can write any letters I like in the cells and walk away satisfied. And the answers, they probably exist

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