Inland Empire (film) it "A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma" and Jim Emerson (editor of RogerEbert.com) gave it 4 stars and praised it: "When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's "Sunset Boulevard", Lynch's "Persona" or Lynch's "8½", they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", Jean-Luc Godard's "Pierrot le Fou", Buñuel and Dalí's "Un Chien Andalou", Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite) and others". However, Carina Chocano of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that "the film, which begins promisingly, disappears down so many rabbit holes (one of them
Filmmaking technique of Luis Buñuel for example, combining the sound of gushing water with an image of a stagnant pool, or exaggerating the volume level of chiming bells. Music is an important part of Buñuel's early films, to such an extent that, for his one silent film "Un Chien Andalou", in his sixties, he took the trouble to create a sonorised version. He based this version on the music (Wagner, a South American tango) played at its original screening. "Un Chien Andalou" was his first film—made in the silent era—and was called "the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert. One critic