What's Lynch's most terrifying scene over all? I think I may go with the video cammed scenes of Patricia Arquette's mutilated body in Lost Highway or the "call me" party scene from the same film.
Darragh, did you watch the theatrical version or the extended fan-cut of this?
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link
amazingly, it might be one of the scenes from the network television show he created! the two murder scenes in s2, bob climbing over the couch, the laura palmer doppelganger screaming in the last episode...
then again the first time I watched mullholland dr the diner scene got me good
― a mom shaped pom (wins), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link
I really love fwwm: the missing pieces, the feature film that david lynch edited from deleted fwwm scenes, but I'm turned off by the idea of watching a version of fwwm where some nerd has inserted them back in. Especially once laura's story gets going, I think the decision not to cut keep cutting away to big ed and pete is a good one, however great those scenes are
― a mom shaped pom (wins), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link
cut
― a mom shaped pom (wins), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:26 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah the man behind winky' scene. That's probably the most terrifying thing he did.
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
I understand where you're coming from wins although I'm going to watch it regardless.
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
What's Lynch's most terrifying scene over all?
Either Maddy's death or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A7ksKLqvpQ
― Corn Elephant, Jr. (Old Lunch), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:42 (eight years ago) link
I guess the theatrical, jed?
Bob couch prob the worst scene, my god
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 23 May 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
Old lunch otm
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 May 2016 01:44 (eight years ago) link
The most amazing thing is the in-camera(ness) - excuse my lack of vocabulary - of what he achieves. Even something as simple as the v close up camera shifting in and out of focus as they prize up Teresa's nail to find the typed letter hidden under there but it reaches a kind of sublime in the backwards scenes of the man from the red room with Bob and the guy in the blank misshapen punted nose mask jumping up and down backwards shrouded in smoke. I'm watching the fan edit (for shame) but that scene is extremely extended in that version and unlike anything I've ever seen in film, truly. Pretty sure it's not all in the theatrical cut anyway. It is uniquely terrifying and inspiring. Terrifyingly beautiful.
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Thursday, 26 May 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
There's a little boy in the scene and he has the same misshapen pointed nose mask as the guy with the flat top Afro and he moves the mask back and forward to uncover his face and when he does it one time it's the face of a real white haired monkey. Then the boy points to Bob and says "fell a victim" backwards. Shudder.
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Thursday, 26 May 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
The same monkey we see later in the film who (if you turn the volume pretty much all the way up) you hear whisper 'Judy' (presumably the Judy that Phillip Jeffries is ranting about earlier). Freaked my shit out the first time I caught that.
― Wet Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 May 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/151489812
bob over the couch scared the shit out of me.
lynch the master of creepy in twin peaks in general tho. like even the repetitive static shot of the damn ceiling fan in the palmer's house is fucking chilling.
― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 26 May 2016 03:10 (eight years ago) link
Like everyone else, I've been revisiting TP and finally reached the end with this movie. Hadn't seen it since I saw it at the cinema upon its first release: my overwhelming memory was of it being perhaps the scariest movie Lynch had ever made. That might've been the impact of watching it on a big screen - this time round, I was much more frequently ambushed by unexpected emotion, particularly during the final scene of Laura laughing hysterically and being comforted by Cooper; as the 'last' moment in TP (until the revival, obv) it seemed to emphasise the tragedy at the heart of the story, just what a short, horrible life that Laura Palmer had. A more 'realistic', straight-forward telling of the same story would not have anything like the same power, I don't think, so the film acts as justification and celebration of Lynch's obscurantism and allusiveness. Underneath it all, he's an incredibly 'warm' director who seems very heavily invested in his characters.
So, onto the new series.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 08:32 (seven years ago) link
Underneath it all, he's an incredibly 'warm' director who seems very heavily invested in his characters.
v. otm
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 10:36 (seven years ago) link
I think we've seen just the right amount of TP there needs to be.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 2, 2012
well little did i know
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 10:50 (seven years ago) link
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 09:32 Bookmark
do watch the missing pieces if you havent - it's sort of obscene and certainly unfair how the new series directly and explicitly builds on scenes from it
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:13 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the tip r/t/c, funnily enough I'd been checking out the wiki entry on FWWM and at the end it says
Lynch has recently stated that "'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me' is very important to understanding (the revival)"
So, onto the Missing Pieces
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:21 (seven years ago) link
the missing pieces is like... seven times more important to understanding the revival than fwwm on its own imo
i guess no one wants to be That Guy sternly prescribing some supposed offcuts from 1992 but tmp honestly does exist more plausibly as the anciently prerecorded first episodes of 2017 (not just in terms of plot/backstory but tonally also)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link
I think if you haven't seen the palmer family interview in "between two worlds" you're practically going in blind
― K-hole MacLachlan (wins), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:43 (seven years ago) link
serious question: why do ppl need to "understand" TP? It's not Agatha Christie.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 21:51 (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
because if you watch it as a horror mystery comedy with soap elements, it's about a third as interesting
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 12:05 (seven years ago) link
Nothing about the revival makes any sense until you've watched all of the Georgia Coffee commercials at least a few times.
― Trockasturm Hoar The Ramming Battle Ceraton (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 12:08 (seven years ago) link
Criterion now out.
Sheryl Lee:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5050-surrendering-logic-in-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
Anyone seen the CC?
This 207-minute (!) podcast may be of interest:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/projectionbooth/2017/10/25/episode-346-fire-walk-with-me-redux-twin-peaks-the-return
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
I have the new Criterion edition and haven't had the chance to watch it yet. Saw FWWM in a theater in July before I had started The Return, so I'm stoked to watch it again.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
and like I said in the Lynch poll redux, Inland Empire is seriously due for a sweet Criterion reissue. the DVD is out of print in the USA and the only available copies of it are $30+ Japanese blu-rays.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
One scene sticks in my mind from when i (re)watched it a few months ago. Bobby is pissed at Laura but she just smiles at him until he crumbles, and sort of dance-walks backwards away from her with a goofy grin on his face. Left at that it would be a great scene, showing Laura's irresistible winning charm. What is strange though is that after Bobby starts dancing, almost everyone else in the scene seems to start dancing too, as though accidental victims of her powerful juju. It's subtle, mostly, I had to rewind a few times to be sure.
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
Lee and Ashbrook are both so good in that scene
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
the DVD is out of print in the USA and the only available copies of it are $30+ Japanese blu-rays
wow wtf
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
glad I bought it when I did I guess
yeah this is the one i bought recently. it's only $21 now. i haven't watched it yet in full but i did put it in my player to make sure it worked/didn't look like shit, & i know it was shot on miniDV & i haven't seen the movie since it came out, but it did look kinda ehhh, just based on looking at the opening title sequence. looks like a youtube rip
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
Just that opening sweep across the title - INLAND EMPIRE - shit was pixelated & grainy as fuck
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Great movie, but it looks like it cost less than that to shoot.
― Chris L, Thursday, 26 October 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
pre order is up
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 26 October 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
gotta link?
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Ju-Ju-dy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1B5mmh5q14
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
So from that clip of Sheryl Lee it seems Lynch brings techniques from meditation to the way he directs actors.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
I only had to time to watch "The Missing Pieces" before the CC went back to the library; I had forgotten how goddamn beautiful Chris Isaak was.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link
wait you didn’t rewatch the actual movie
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
later
the Bowie scenes in TMP didn't really convince me i know WTF is going on there.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
also i had food poisoning last night and that's kinda the last film i wanna watch in that state.
Bobby discovering his coke was laxative, lol
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
Bowie and the convenience store scenes are key to season 3.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 November 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
better go ahead and tell me
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 November 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
the scenes are referenced (and iirc actually replayed) - you'll get it, don't worry
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
they replay all the relevant parts
― mh, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
whoops, sorry Οὖτις, my skimming is not so good today
― mh, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link