Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

I first watched Inland Empire in the dark, late at night, on my laptop, with headphones. Highly, highly recommended (except maybe the laptop part).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8biyY3trpc

Twin Peaks first seasonMulholland Dr was the best thing Lynch ever did

that he was distracted from TP by making the slop that was Wild at Heart is tragicomic, tho.

agree 100% on that last point. wasted opportunity.

wild at heart's so wonderful; one of the best examples of just how distinctive his range & tone are, that he can lend this feeling of sense to surreal digressions, internal logic to unexpected asides

he and Gifford were a poor match imo

Mulholland Dr was the best thing Lynch ever did

Agree with this, I think. The fact that it was carved out of a hunk of unused TV pilot makes me hopeful for what he does for pay cable.

MacLachlan's onboard, no shock there:

Kyle MacLachlan ‏@Kyle_MacLachlan 6m6 minutes ago
Better fire up that percolator and find my black suit :-) #Twinpeaks

David Bowie and Kiefer Sutherland: busy

Search and Destroy his various other tv projects, short films and adverts?

I like The Grandmother, Alphabet, Absurd Encounter With Fear and the PlayStation advert with the deer.

I didn't enjoy most of his short films, the comedic ones in particular.

There's still a bunch of stuff I haven't seen. Does anyone recommend Industrial Symphony or the Inland Empire outtake compilation More Things That Happened? I really want to see the latter someday.

did you skip On the Air? Best described by a friend of mine as "a comedy by people who don't understand comedy" - intermittently charming and weird and funny, but usually for the wrong reasons

I like the one about the cowboy and the frenchman

http://i.imgur.com/vJfCxzS.png?1?4968

Haven't seen On The Air. The cowboy/Frenchman one is actually one of my least favourites aside from one or two funny bits.

this news has totally made my day

and I was having a pretty shitty day

Is On the Air on youtube? I think it was only available briefly on VHS back in the day.

On The Air is around. Parts of it are among Lynch's most bizarre moments. Can't say I'd exactly recommend it, though.

yeah I wouldn't either, and def not to Gilmour's tastes I would wager

should i watch this show

More Things That Happened is kinda essential, I think. For me, the whole point of Inland Empire is that it has all these overlapping stories exploding and consuming each other, with no center keeping it all together. More Things That Happened further undermines Inland Empire as a cohesive work, and puts it on the plane of stuff happening, which is where it belongs, and why it's unique, and a masterpiece.

Yeah, I watched it immediately after watching IE and it didn't feel at all superfluous.

Cool, I'll need to find a copy of Inland Empire that includes it.

How about Hotel Room?

I have somehow never watched the More Things That Happened stuff. Should rectify that.

was this on an IE disc release?

I'm sure I saw some of On the Air, nothing stuck with me.

Conversely, I think the Wild At Heart deleted scenes in the Lime Green Set made me dislike the movie more. They suggest that the film was at one point more coherent and slightly more traditional, narratively speaking, and that Lynch snipped away at the film in an effort to make it more Lynchian.

has it really been almost 10 years since he's done a feature-length film?!?

Yeah, Morbs, the More Things That Happened content is on a second disc (along with the Rabbits shorts) of the copy of IE that I have.

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It's tempting to imagine an alternate career for him where he did both good, "conventional" studio films (tho I don't consider that a wholly accurate label even for Elephant Man) and passion projects, a la Soderbergh.

I have mixed feelings about that Marion Cottilard handbag advert. There's nice stuff in it but I still couldn't shake the feeling I get from other fashion adverts that try for some sort of emotional depth but don't achieve it.

hope everybody says coffee and pie a whole lot, call me a dreamer maybe we can get some hashtags out of it. that'll be so great

I watched More Things That Happened at the Cinema during CPH:PIX last year, in a series on directors revisiting their earlier work - it also included Resnais, Rivette and Godard, so I was happy. Demand was apparantly so great that an extra viewing was arranged. But if I'd actually paid 80 kr to watch a blu-ray extra, I would have felt ripped off.

9 hours of Lynch directing anything is a gift
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but yeah watching twin peaks in the era of the instant recap and the twitter feed is gonna be... i was gonna say interesting, but there's no way i can spin that positively.

So the 25 year reference was Fire Walk with Me???

*was in

I ignore insta-recaps as a general thing and will happily continue the trend with Twin Peaks 2: Twinner Peaks.

25 year thing might be there too but it is definitely in the original series

xp

http://twitter.com/hashtag/moderntwinpeaks?f=realtime&src=hash

I hope Lynch will do the right thing and refilm those scenes of MacLachlan in old man makeup. He should be able to CGI Jack Nance into the show, too, a la Nancy Marchand in The Sopranos.

might i suggest ignoring the instant recap and the twitter feed; works for me.

i guess. i have a sort of professional need to see what's going on in tv criticism though :(

two years from now the hivemind updates will appear by default on your screen as the episode unfolds.

I have difficulty imagining Lynch making something now that fits into the popular tv drama fandom. I'd be surprised if it was as accessible to mainstream audiences as the original episodes.
Is this being made for a major channel or streaming service?

two years from now the hivemind updates will appear by default on your screen as the episode unfolds.

That's the next season of Girls right there.

Oh right it's Showtime.

it's on cable he should make it as weird and challenging as he can get away with.

Portlandia crossover imo

Lynch is pretty willfully perverse regarding audience expectations, I wouldn't be surprised if the first episode spends most of its time getting us up to speed on Nadine.

Or involving altogether new characters. Lest we forget that the first quarter/third of Fire Walk With Me was anchored by Chris Isaak and Kiefer Sutherland.

I guess you ppl liked episodes 18-30 way way more than i did.

Lynch only directed 2 of these at most. The last episode and probably another one somewhere in the middle.