Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Classic or Dud [spoilers]

i like lost highway, the phone scene is really cool, i became obsessed with it. just that it existed.

i loved lost highway when it came out because i was 19 and it was the first lynch i actually got to see in the theater and "share" with my nerdy film school friends in discussions and whatnot. but seeing it again a few years later, after mulholland drive, just nah.

I'm gone, James. Like a turkey in the corn.

I have still never seen this but it is showing in 35mm next month here:

http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Twin-Peaks.aspx

it's not that good

Well worth watching though.

it's awesome, go see it.

kinda funny that two of the biggest Cannes disasters ever (FWWM and Brown Bunny) are in my top 10 all-time.

Fact: the first Lynch film I saw.

my favorite film by david lynch

totally worth seeing

I saw it for the first time in the mid-90s and loved it. I'd have probably said it was my second or third favourite Lynch film, at least until Inland Empire came out.

Saw it again last year and it didn't strike me as anything like as impressive. The start and end are great but long swathes of it drag terribly. 100% worth watching, though.

A lot of terrible ideas in the movie, and in places no ideas at all.

lol that is a great description of it.

there are definitely things in it I like a lot.

Leland telling Laura to wash her hands before coming to the dinner table, for example

The dance at the club reminds me of every drunken standing around I've ever done in my life.

Also: Sheryl Lee gives one of the great unsung performances of the decade (Greil Marcus also a fan).

Lee is good. Moira Kelly struggled, though.

Saw this in a back-street in Brasov, Romania a few years ago:

http://i.imgur.com/Z4zO1.jpg

The first 30 minutes is probably my favorite 30 minute sequence of any film.

Even the knock-kneed harlequin girl eh

that bit is totally funny

only if you regard it as a parody of Lynch.

The first twenty minutes is heavy on self-parody but still manages to be incredibly unsettling.

that's what the rest of the movie is for

Keifer Sutherland blinking nerdily in the diner is a nice sight gag

kinda funny that two of the biggest Cannes disasters ever (FWWM and Brown Bunny) are in my top 10 all-time.

Sorry Matt, Fire Walk With Me is not eligible as one of the top 10 all-time Vincent Gallo films.

I saw it for the first time in the mid-90s and loved it. I'd have probably said it was my second or third favourite Lynch film, at least until Inland Empire came out.

Ditto. Until Mulholland and Inland came out, I thought of this one as my favorite Lynch.

i like the bit where someone gives her a picture of a door and she hangs it on her wall and then she gets out of bed at night and goes to her door and shes at the door in the picture looking into her room where she can see herself still sleeping. that bit is kickass.

also the bit with the chick whose dress is a code or something

i had totally forgotten that part (xp)

Sorry Matt, Fire Walk With Me is not eligible as one of the top 10 all-time Vincent Gallo films.

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If only there were 10 Vincent Gallo films :(

maybe if that gave him less time to think about them. Vastly preferred his last lead acting role in Essential Killing, where he didn't speak.

yeah God the first half hour or whatever with Chris Isaak is brilliant. didn't the TV show actors want a shitload of cash to appear they Lynch told em to stick it? or some of them at least.

yeah God the first half hour or whatever with Chris Isaak is brilliant. didn't the TV show actors want a shitload of cash to appear they Lynch told em to stick it? or some of them at least.

― piscesx, Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:48 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No I think Flynn Boyle was the only holdout. Lynch shot scenes with pretty much every secondary actor on the show, almost all of which ended up being cut. Getting those scenes on a special edition has been an ordeal.

maybe if that gave him less time to think about them. Vastly preferred his last lead acting role in Essential Killing, where he didn't speak.

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

For some reason I thought you liked Brown Bunny.

it's... not bad. 'Cept the ending.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m0zNqUJ1hgw/Tio3r60PY7I/AAAAAAAAI_w/0nyJSAnjruc/s1600/fwwm1600.jpg

Judy?

No I think Flynn Boyle was the only holdout.

She just didn't want to do nude scenes, right?

yeah first half with coop is great, ending is great, bit of a drag in the middle, still better than wild at heart or inland empire to me, anyone even remotely interested in twin peaks should love it, I've seen it a dozen times.

^Sacrilige. Wild At Heart is his finest work and the best movie ever.

(And I do know how to spell sacrilege. ;)

wild at heart is good too. I dunno I like the twin peaks universe more though.

it's better than that thing with balthazar getty I can't remember the name of right now

Lost Highway. I really loved that one - much more than Mulholland Drive (which is essentially the same story).

Sherilynn Fenn: "(I) was extremely disappointed in the way the second season got off track. As far as Fire Walk with Me, it was something that I chose not to be a part of."

also McLachlan only wanted to play a small part, hence the introduction of Chester Desmond.

i'm amazed Chris Isaak wasn't a bigger star in the acting world as he had such a weird, brilliant alien quality. the very idea of Isaak as a tough-nut Fed who's kinda aloof and takes no shit but kinda charming with it, and Sutherland as a geeky scientist type is as winning a buddy-movie type double act as i've ever seen! on paper it sounds mental though. i guess that's why Lynch is a genius of sorts.

Sherilynn Fenn: "(I) was extremely disappointed in the way the second season got off track. As far as Fire Walk with Me, it was something that I chose not to be a part of."

also McLachlan only wanted to play a small part, hence the introduction of Chester Desmond.

― Number None, Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:30 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah I forgot about Fenn. I'm pretty sure literally every other major character filmed something though.

there's apparently a scene of Sheriff Truman serenading Josie Packard in the woods with his acoustic guitar.

Wow, impossible to find a picture of Chris Isaak as a clown hitman in ... Something Wild? Married to the Mob?

I'd love to see the supposed reams of unused material.

Audrey's dad didn't film anything either