Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

I love that baguette scene but it always really makes me want a baguette and there is never one around

a baguette and some good brie

pretty much any scene with food is awesome

I really have to rewatch the baguette scene because going over it in my head it feels like something I dreamed.

In some behind the scenes thing, they talked about Lynch making them do that scene a couple of times because they weren't taking huge enough bites.

The best part is they take a huge bite in the middle of the baguette, not the end like any rational human being would. Ever since seeing that I always want to eat baguettes that way.

Yes!

Hold the baguette on the tips of your fingers, take a big whiff, and chomp the middle. Turn to any interested onlooker, "you know what this reminds me of?"

There's something comically imperial about it, like Caesar returning from conquest and interrupting a meeting with these great foodstuffs for Mark Anthony - they're so powerful and fixated on their own pleasures that they go into epicurean ecstasies while the senate looks on, invisible and uneasy.

lol

don't forget the leg of lamb

There's something comically imperial about it, like Caesar returning from conquest and interrupting a meeting with these great foodstuffs for Mark Anthony - they're so powerful and fixated on their own pleasures that they go into epicurean ecstasies while the senate looks on, invisible and uneasy.

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Friday, June 14, 2013 1:28 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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so I went to one of the local weekly screenings of Twin Peaks eps last night and the dude running the screening preceded the episodes with an episode of On the Air (from a Japanese laserdisc). I don't think I'd seen any of that since it originally aired, was great to be reminded what a bizarre oddity it was. Someone else described it as a show "about humor" by people who don't know how to tell jokes. Squiggy as the stage director with the impenetrable accennt was genuinely lolzy tho

according to Wiki only 3 episodes of On The Air were shown in the States? we had the whole series on the BBC back in the day.

I remember it being properly awful. Improved with age/interesting failure?

i certainly don't recall laughing much when i saw it and i laughed at any old rubbish when i was 15.

I haven't seen it after it originally aired, but yeah, I don't recall it being very funny either, just utterly bizarre.

The first ep was amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYef8OjlNBw

my new favorite line in TP (from the period dfw says he likes best because it's got the spectacle of lynch trapping himself in a position "where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed ... on national tv") is when harold smith looks almost into the camera and disgustedly says "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SECRETS?" just before he garden weasels his face

it always makes me lol but i don't mean it like that

lol yeah Harold in general is a pretty ridiculous character

(from the period dfw says he likes best because it's got the spectacle of lynch trapping himself in a position "where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed ... on national tv")

i don't think i've read that, where did he write about TP?

this article for premiere about lost highway but i think that's the magazine version and it doesn't have that quote or as much non-lost-highway stuff in general. expanded version's in a supposedly fun thing.

poor mark frost, no respect. he reportedly had a much more active role than lynch at that point

anyway, that looks good though, thanks for the head's up dlh

the unaired episodes of "on the air" just got progressively weirder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2ueMsSmU0

re-reading Cloud Atlas last night, there's a scene involving a bomb in a safety deposit box and it was killing me trying to remember the movie/tv scene reminded me of. :)

David Lynch To Shoot New Twin Peaks Material, Probably As A Promo For The Upcoming Blu-Rays

would attend casting session

blu-ray seems as much a part of the distant cultural past as twin peaks does

Pretty sure that's still the preferred format for owning a physical copy of a film or TV series, but OK.

will it still be in 4:3?

13:33:10

was the whole thing shot on film? wondering how good it is going to look on blu ray.

Not as good as gold ray dude.

I believe a lot of these types of shows are shot on 16mm? Last year they made a new transfer of the original House of Cards for Blu Ray release for example: http://www.from-the-archive.co.uk/2013/02/blu-ray-review-house-of-cards-trilogy.html

gold ray, if it existed, would be worse than blu ray. you need UV ray to really see the details in the corduroy

Just reading up, and apparently most US TV shows before the late 80s were shot and edited on film, but a lot of TV from then on and through the 90s had editing and post-production done on video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtPGB879Fc8

Years before Benjamin Horne, James Best in Shock Corridor as an institutionalized Korean War veteran who thinks he's a Civil War general:

http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Shock-6.jpg

https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/466971307934896129

http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/261617/speedreads-new-twin-peaks-box-set-will-include-90-minutes-of-never-before-seen-footage

and also: http://andthemissingpieces.tumblr.com/

this is awfully exciting, the trailer video looks exceptional. I'm assuming these will be strung together into a seperate feature-ette and it's not a completely re-edited FWWM (which would have been preferable) but look at all the shit that got cut out!

I saw two high school aged girls full-on embracing the 90s nostalgia look and one of them had a homemade "TWIN PEAKS" patch on the back of her jean jacket. <3

yeah the early 90s preppy+grunge look has been back for a while.

and yeah the twin peaks patch is sweet.

roll call: how many of you watched the series on its original run? (my hand is way up)

i think some ilxors were born around then, if not later

it was a big deal with my high school AP English class crew, watched it religiously when it aired

*hand up*

My parents watched it, so my memory is as hazy as that famous chill wave VHS sound.

yes, watched it with my post-high school stoner layabout crew every week. went off on a backpacking trip and missed the last few episodes, which at the time I thought meant I'd NEVER see them. I don't think TV shows were even released on VHS much back then, it never went into repeats, and nobody had their shit together enough to tape anything. Seems like a million years ago when something could be there and then gone. Everything lasts forever.