Some Kind of Heaven (2021) - Dir. Lance Oppenheim

“America’s seniors have discovered the fountain of youth. It’s in The Villages, FL. With SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community – a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this palm tree-lined fantasyland, SOME KIND OF HEAVEN invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents – and one interloper – who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise. With strikingly composed cinematography, this candy-colored documentary offers a tender and surreal look at the never-ending quest for finding meaning and love in life’s final act. Now available everywhere”

Directed by Lance Oppenheim

Produced by Darren Aronofsky, Kathleen Lingo, Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman, Melissa Oppenheim Lano, Pacho Velez, and Lance Oppenheim

https://somekindofheaven.com/

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MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) - Dir. David Lynch

SYNOPSIS

After arriving in Hollywood, aspiring actress Betty (Naomi Watts) befriends an amnesiac woman (Laura Harring) and tries to help her recover her memory. The film establishes these characters but then proceeds to subvert any certainty about them, weaving its plot around L.A.’s signature industry.

MUBI’s TAKE

Initially conceived as a TV pilot, only to be transformed into a feature film, Mulholland Drive is lightning in a bottle of Hollywood fantasies, baroque emotions, and noir dreamscapes. Lynch’s surrealist masterpiece is a nightmarish puzzle box of doubles and desires, where nothing is what it seems.