Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

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

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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.

Only saying this to suggest that 9 consecutive Lynch-directed episodes should be a big improvement.

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.

The Straight Story is always forgotten. Too bad... folks are missing out.

Yeah, great film and I love Farnsworth.

That reminds me that it's the only Lynch besides Dune I've still never seen. Need to get on that.

"I'll see you again in 25 years" comes from the final episode of season 2. The dream sequence in alternate ending to the pilot also had a "twenty-five years later" title card.

Straight Story is great...not what you would expect at all - v moving and emotional.

Straight Story is the only of his I still haven't seen but 'moving and emotional' doesn't surprise me so very much. The Elephant Man has that in spades, and there are many such moments in even his more outwardly bizarre outings. Lynch's facility with emotional resonance is one of his more underrated qualities.

there are moments of twin peaks that are heartbreaking and incredibly moving. at least to me. at least they were at the time.

The Straight Story is goddamn WEIRD btw

from http://deadline.com/2014/10/twin-peaks-return-showtime-series-mark-frost-interview-846363/

DEADLINE: How did the project end up at Showtime?
FROST: We had a really good feeling about Showtime from the very beginning. (EVP Original Programming) Gary Levine, who is the second in command there, was actually the ABC executive in charge of the show when we did it 25 years ago. (President) David Nevins was a big fan of the show, we had a great meeting with them, and David Lynch loved the artwork that David Nevins had in his office, that seemed to get him excited. We feel it’s the perfect home for the show now, and we’re very happy to be there.

actors who are very happy about this: lara flynn boyle, who hasn't been in anything of note since the Practice. Sherilynn Fenn: does she even act anymore? I liked her showtime series.

maybe he'll cast moira kelly instead.

michael onkean

(apparently he was in the descendants? don't remember him in that at all)

'straight story' does the 'signs and symbols' trick of putting in a bunch of things that seem to indicate a deeper meaning (the protagonist's stories) but don't really.

sherilyn fenn in late-period gilmore girls eps btw/i'll have you know

lara flynn boyle not looking so great these days