"I like to remember things my own way... not necessarily the way they happened". With this key line the orchestra swells to a small crescendo, and following a subtle beginning this audacious English National Opera production suddenly feels, well, operatic. Olga Neuwirth's startlingly faithful music-theatre treatment of David Lynch's 1997 neo-noir has been resurrected in the Young Vic for a short run. Fans of the film are doubtless aware of its complex Mobius-strip narrative,......

If you have ever felt that you were caught in a David Lynch film, you will know what we mean. (For the record: Londonist loves David Lynch.) Everything seems to alternate between slow motion and fast forward, but you know that can’t be right. Different people tell you different stories and they don’t make sense even though you know they should. That’s what it feels like for the main character in Bicycle, and that’s......

This week - David Lynch makes another film which makes everyone say "wha...?" (Inland Empire) and Eddie Murphy dons a fat suit and makes a racially insensitive film(Norbit). First up, Inland Empire. We're not a huge fan of David Lynch here at Londonist. For a while we were awed by the mysteriousness and 'cleverness' of it all but then, during a trip to Blockbuster when we had to choose between Mulholland Drive and Die......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

You may recall that a couple of weeks ago, we were quite excited about Punchdrunk’s ‘super-immersive’ staging of Faust. Well last Saturday evening we got the chance to see the performance for ourselves, and we certainly weren’t disappointed. For those not familiar with the story of Faust, it revolves around an eminent scholar (Faust) entering into a pact with the devil (represented by Mephistopheles). However, this is no ordinary staging of this story –......

Just squeezing the May Music Review in before the end of the month. And to kick off this month's mailbag of music are some folks who like trains. And history. iLIKETRAINS - Terra Nova (single released 29th May on Fierce Panda) Terra Nova is about Captain Scott's doomed 1912 Antarctic expedition and the b-side is about the Norwegian who beat him to the pole. This is rock music for A-Level history students perhaps. iLIKETRAINS sound......

We took the time out yesterday to wander up to the Tate Britain for the opening of a new exhibition: Gothic Nightmares - Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination. It's one of the most interesting exhibits that the Tate has put together in ages and is well worth a look, but the powers that be have gone one better by organising a series of killer lectures, tours and event around the exhibition that should......