Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

is this just going to be hours of Lynch eating donuts?

Two-hour premiere on May 21st. Episodes 3 and 4 available for Showtime subscribers directly after

I've been slogging through the depths of season 2. Among the highlights:

Weasel-cam
I appreciate Diane Keaton throwing lots of visual distractions into a James-heavy episode.
There doesn't seem to be much fallout from Cooper shooting a dude while under investigation for involvement in the deaths of several people.
Despite the ludicrous explanation of Denise's self-discovery, Cooper's a solid model for how to behave when a friend comes out as trans.
Newspaper headline reads "Asian Man Killed!!"

fffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Denise is a funny one, good by the standards of the time and I love the character and duchovny's performance but at the same time yeah there are a few too many *shakes head, chuckles indulgently* reaction shots and I would have liked a recast in c21. Hawk's bigoted wariness has always felt real to me tho, generally thought her treatment was a lot better than you might expect from the creators of tojemura and "Asian man killed!"

"Asian man killed!"

I've always taken this as a joek

on small-town/provincialism determining "newsworthy" details

from the creators of tojemura

fuck I'm posting in the wrong thread

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I thought it was from a newspaper in Seattle though. Also two exclamation points.

Why does this make me so nervous? I'm not acting in it...

https://www.facebook.com/KING5News/videos/10152606834696476/

RIP Miguel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fe3e3B1iu0

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/miguel-ferrer-dead-dies-ncis-los-angeles-1201964233/

aw fuck. RIP. At least we got one last Albert performance.

nooooooo

Dammit

Oh damn. I also loved him in Lynch's "On the Air".

In other news: Watch an Epic, 4-Hour Video Essay on the Making & Mythology of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks

:-(

https://twitter.com/cultdung/status/823281864047755265

it's a real bummer we're not getting a new julee cruise album with this. especially considering she still seems to be somewhat active, doing one-off guest vocals on singles in various genres. voice still sounds great. did she have a falling out with lynch and badalamenti? maybe not enough people would care at this point. Or maybe they're all just old.

from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgm3eqSieo

Just started my original series rewatch. Something that I don't see discussed a lot is that it has easily 5 times as many recurring characters as most series (esp for its era). For all the focus on the mystery and Lynchian qualities I think that's one of the main reasons its worldbuilding is so effective.

do we know for sure she's not doing any music for this?

she's 'somewhat active' but I have heard that her live performances are pretty reliant on backing vocal tapes at this point; I"m not sure she sounds exactly the same. which isn't necessarily bad.

I think a friend of mine may be involved in music for this. she said it was hush hush but would be a tv thing out in april.

She's credited as "Roadhouse Singer" in the new show (IMDB)

She's in the cast list & I assume playing the same character - those IMDb credits are not official tho, that's just some rando making the same assumption

Well, if she's in or out, as far as I'm concerned - it's not Twin Peaks without her.

She's definitely in, is what I'm saying - she was on the official cast list. Just don't go by IMDb as far as any other details are concerned

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She's also in the official cast list, so I guess she's in.

i saw that, just assumed there'd be an announcement or clips or something by now if there was going to be an album. that's probably the wrong assumption to make these days, esp with a project like this.

from the dugpa message board:

While the third season of "Twin Peaks" returns in May, we spent some time with Julee Cruise, the one that set the pace of the hypnotic series by David Lynch.

Let's start with the question that everyone asks: have you composed a song or are you playing a role in the new season of Twin Peaks?

I was called on to shoot the third season, but unfortunately I can't say more. It's not because I want to be mysterious, but it's just that I have no idea what this series will be. It's a veritable enigma that only David Lynch can solve and explain. What is certain is that you will be surprised. There are a lot of musicians who have participated in this project and David, who's got a lot of confidence in recent years with his instruments, has himself composed a lot of music for this season. He has total control from Showtime and he was happy to control everything.

It's a veritable enigma that only David Lynch can solve and explain...He has total control from Showtime and he was happy to control everything.

that sounds good to me. watching the documentary about the filming of inland empire (Lynch: One) was a revelation to me. i'd highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in his creative process.

haha I was surprised how pissy he got w production assistants in that, given the genial mr avunc-garde image he usually projects

oh, definitely. my favorite two parts, or at least the two parts that i remember the best, are 1) him wandering some alley in poland in despair, talking to himself about how he doesn't know what the movie is about, and 2) the recording of the sound of a needle on a spinning record, focusing the efforts of a half-dozen pieces on it with crazy intensity, and yelling at some random assistant (or who knows, maybe some famous cinematographer, i don't know) about not getting it right.

Lol am always surprised how pissy Lynch can get for someone who's meditated twice a day for 40+ years !

He has talked about having serious anger issues.

Yeah but if you watch/listen to him talk about TM he always says those issues disappeared once he began practicing.

"TM has made me a less nervous person!" *chainsmokes and pounds coffee*

people who actually stick with meditation, make the commitment to practice daily and do so for years, tend to be pretty intense ime. anger and other personality disorders end up being mitigated more than eliminated.

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is there any video footage of him pre-TM? he started meditating in 1973, so in the middle of filming eraserhead. the earliest film clip i've seen of him was around the same time, with jack nance, getting interviewed by some local college dude, i think. DL seemed pretty chilled out! but anyway, my hypothesis is that maybe he was an incredibly high strung and angry person before TM, and the version we're seeing now is actually the calmed down version.

i am doing science

n.b. mike love is a daily TM practitioner

talking to himself about how he doesn't know what the movie is about

Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

newly discovered of footage of david lynch, managing a fast food restaurant in 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLwb9NePt94&spf

oh. well it was a 6 second clip of the Chicken Sandwich, Carl! thing from The State. trust me, it was really funny

It's probably mentioned somewhere on this thread, but I highly recommend the documentary "David Wants to Fly" which is about Lynch's involvement in TM. It will make you feel very weird about Lynch. He's not the quirky good-hearted genius he seems like.

It was on this thread or another Lynch thread but I still haven't seen more than clips.

It is strange that it seems to have vanished. Used to be on Netflix DVD. It wasn't a crackpot doc either; it was pretty convincing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-s5aE13sk