David Lynch's brilliant, bizarre murder investigation series was a huge hit for the majority of its run, until ratings dropped off after a misjudged mid-season reveal (largely prompted by the studio).
Brilliant planning, brilliant execution!
He's also a filmmaker who finds great, unsettling dark comedy in violence, and once again the blood does run, if somewhat less generously than in "The Host" and his often brilliant "Memories of Murder".
The brilliant and terrifying murder sequence at the beginning of the film establishes its deliberately bipolar mood and lays out its vision of modern America as a land of colliding, television-fed dreams of romance and upward mobility.
Compared with such genuinely startling Korean new-wave gems as Bong Joon-ho's brilliant Memories of Murder, Kim Ji-woon's haunting A Tale of Two Sisters, or Jun-hwan Jeong's bonkers Save the Green Planet, the work of this enfant terrible has often seemed shallow and showy.
His brilliant thriller, with its murders, betrayals and dysfunctional Danish royals, triumphs over the kibitzers.
In one of the videos posted under his account, Musa Real Talks, Barnes hailed the murder as a "brilliant day".
There is something of the brilliant Serial podcast about The Murder Detectives – in its forensic examination of a real case from start to conclusion, seen from every angle.
In it, Barnes described the murder as a "brilliant day" and warns the prime minister, David Cameron, and the public that the attack will not be the last.
In one of the videos posted under his account Musa Real Talks, Barnes hailed the murder as a "brilliant day" and in a follow-up he mocked the outpouring of public grief, laughing uncontrollably as he drove past floral tributes.
So began the events leading to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, brilliant intellectual, director and homosexual whose political vision – based on a singular entwinement of Eros, Catholicism and Marxism – foresaw Italian history after his death, and the burgeoning of global consumerism.
