![]() The Wild at Heart, if I had to put a genre to it would be Luigi’s Mansion mixed with Pikmin slightly glazed with some Zelda sauce. This game is full of uncanny characters and they are all mysterious and wonderful. From Bird Hat Weirdo and Cat Lady Weirdo to the One-Eyed Weirdo and the Weirdo Twins. What really made me laugh about these characters is they were always introduced as “insert character trait here” weirdo and it really tickled me. Plus they are all a little kooky, which I loved. The Greenshields are a group of rag-tag characters, unseen by the world they protect and they have a list of quirks as long as your arm. What you stumble upon is an adventure to save the world, battle back the forces of darkness and reunite the Greenshields. Philippe’s documentary LYNCH/OZ, The Wizard of Oz (35mm)and a number of Lynch’s most haunting films as part of this Summer’s You’re Not In Kansas Anymore series.You play, initially, as Wake, a young scallywag searching for excitement. Screening in conjunction with Alexandre O. A striking counterpoint to her previous Lynch persona, Sandy, Blue Velvet’s paragon of youthful innocence, Lula is mature, self-possessed, and recklessly romantic. The film also features Dern in one of her most memorable roles (at times acting opposite her mother, Diane Ladd, whose performance earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress). Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, Wild at Heart is Lynch’s first all-out comedy, but despite the prevailing tone of aggressive absurdity, it contains some of the filmmaker’s most harrowing scenes. Lula (Dern) and Sailor (Nicolas Cage) set out from Cape Fear, North Carolina, in a Ford Thunderbird, headed for the obligatory Oz of California but end up detained in the Texas hellhole of Big Tuna. With its good and wicked witches, and references to Toto and the yellow brick road, David Lynch’s Wild at Heart is an overt, elaborate homage to The Wizard of Oz.
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