Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Classic or Dud [spoilers]

there's something bullying about it (and wild at heart) that makes me understand (almost) why people find him grotesque

guess he thought that, well, hey, Dean Stockwell was funny-frightening in makeup -- let me repeat the joke with Robert Blake, for whose work he probably paid $56.

pullman's saxophone o-face is almost enough to make me have some affection for it

wild at heart is the only one i dislike but i really dislike. srsly spent the whole movie wishing everyone would quit yelling.

i feel the same way re wild at heart, it's awful.

Lost Highway is obviously not perfect but it has some (thrillingly) terrifying scenes - robert blake asking pullman to call him is unfuckwithable and the gory flashbacks to arquette's death are genuinely shocking.

this movie is fucking awesome. it's probably the weirdest feature he made between eraserhead and inland empire.

wild at heart is pretty hard to take, i agree.

the only thing that bugs me about wild at heart is the seemingly interminable sex scenes btwn cage, dern. i think the rest is pretty great

i probably could do with trying lost highway again. thumbs up for the scenes jed mentioned, even if some of the rest of it is meh or doesn't quite work or a bit of a mess

LH is a monstrosity. I've tried to like it. Everything about the movie is wrong: the casting, pace, ideas. Well, the soundtrack is okay, but it's the first time he yielded to contemporary trends.

kind of agree with this tbh. it has moments and I think the underlying idea is a good one that finds more fully realized expression elsewhere in his ouevre. but yeah, Pullman, ugh. the Pryor sequence is sad and borderline offensive. most of the movie spends it's time running place.

there's something bullying about it (and wild at heart) that makes me understand (almost) why people find him grotesque

I was gonna say exploitative (specifically re: Pryor) but yeah this

feel like this alone justifies Wild at Heart's existence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEz-cwJxtu8

also Dafoe accidentally blowing his head off with a shotgun O_o.

FWWM is pretty disappointing imo.

i like lost highway, the phone scene is really cool, i became obsessed with it. just that it existed.

i loved lost highway when it came out because i was 19 and it was the first lynch i actually got to see in the theater and "share" with my nerdy film school friends in discussions and whatnot. but seeing it again a few years later, after mulholland drive, just nah.

I'm gone, James. Like a turkey in the corn.

I have still never seen this but it is showing in 35mm next month here:

http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Twin-Peaks.aspx

it's not that good

Well worth watching though.

it's awesome, go see it.

kinda funny that two of the biggest Cannes disasters ever (FWWM and Brown Bunny) are in my top 10 all-time.

Fact: the first Lynch film I saw.

my favorite film by david lynch

totally worth seeing

I saw it for the first time in the mid-90s and loved it. I'd have probably said it was my second or third favourite Lynch film, at least until Inland Empire came out.

Saw it again last year and it didn't strike me as anything like as impressive. The start and end are great but long swathes of it drag terribly. 100% worth watching, though.

A lot of terrible ideas in the movie, and in places no ideas at all.

lol that is a great description of it.

there are definitely things in it I like a lot.

Leland telling Laura to wash her hands before coming to the dinner table, for example

The dance at the club reminds me of every drunken standing around I've ever done in my life.

Also: Sheryl Lee gives one of the great unsung performances of the decade (Greil Marcus also a fan).

Lee is good. Moira Kelly struggled, though.

Saw this in a back-street in Brasov, Romania a few years ago:

http://i.imgur.com/Z4zO1.jpg

The first 30 minutes is probably my favorite 30 minute sequence of any film.

Even the knock-kneed harlequin girl eh

that bit is totally funny

only if you regard it as a parody of Lynch.

The first twenty minutes is heavy on self-parody but still manages to be incredibly unsettling.

that's what the rest of the movie is for

Keifer Sutherland blinking nerdily in the diner is a nice sight gag

kinda funny that two of the biggest Cannes disasters ever (FWWM and Brown Bunny) are in my top 10 all-time.

Sorry Matt, Fire Walk With Me is not eligible as one of the top 10 all-time Vincent Gallo films.

I saw it for the first time in the mid-90s and loved it. I'd have probably said it was my second or third favourite Lynch film, at least until Inland Empire came out.

Ditto. Until Mulholland and Inland came out, I thought of this one as my favorite Lynch.

i like the bit where someone gives her a picture of a door and she hangs it on her wall and then she gets out of bed at night and goes to her door and shes at the door in the picture looking into her room where she can see herself still sleeping. that bit is kickass.

also the bit with the chick whose dress is a code or something

i had totally forgotten that part (xp)

Sorry Matt, Fire Walk With Me is not eligible as one of the top 10 all-time Vincent Gallo films.

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If only there were 10 Vincent Gallo films :(

maybe if that gave him less time to think about them. Vastly preferred his last lead acting role in Essential Killing, where he didn't speak.

yeah God the first half hour or whatever with Chris Isaak is brilliant. didn't the TV show actors want a shitload of cash to appear they Lynch told em to stick it? or some of them at least.

yeah God the first half hour or whatever with Chris Isaak is brilliant. didn't the TV show actors want a shitload of cash to appear they Lynch told em to stick it? or some of them at least.

― piscesx, Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:48 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No I think Flynn Boyle was the only holdout. Lynch shot scenes with pretty much every secondary actor on the show, almost all of which ended up being cut. Getting those scenes on a special edition has been an ordeal.

maybe if that gave him less time to think about them. Vastly preferred his last lead acting role in Essential Killing, where he didn't speak.

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

For some reason I thought you liked Brown Bunny.

it's... not bad. 'Cept the ending.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m0zNqUJ1hgw/Tio3r60PY7I/AAAAAAAAI_w/0nyJSAnjruc/s1600/fwwm1600.jpg

Judy?

No I think Flynn Boyle was the only holdout.

She just didn't want to do nude scenes, right?

yeah first half with coop is great, ending is great, bit of a drag in the middle, still better than wild at heart or inland empire to me, anyone even remotely interested in twin peaks should love it, I've seen it a dozen times.