The stars turn: the TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread

Brakhage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8r9t135_xY

Tsherassky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l4Q99ibQmc

Adam, I'm talking about things I don't know that much about, so thanks ;)

Ha, xposts to video on Lynch's painting influences, I posted about Hopper after the last episode. Was really slathered all over that one.

How are ppl watching this hint hint

this is Jordan Belson i thought of these during the a bomb test:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/35876/124657604
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jordanbelsonallures1961/179152992

turns out this is a Vimeo on demand channel that features a bunch of high quality streaming experimental abstract films of Belson, Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, etc. i've been looking for a lot of this stuff scrounging for low res excerpt ripped off websites for over ten years now and here it is for streaming in DVD quality. digging with golden shovels.

I haven't actually watched the Tsherassky as a whole for a while but I did then and holy fucking shit, it's amazing.

Eric H of this parish calls it one of the greatest horror movies ever made fwiw (apologies to Eric if I have that wrong)

Darraghmac, it's not how I've been watching it but one way is to go to a site called Solarmovie dot net and scroll down to the search at the bottom of the page and search Twin Peaks.

Deems idk about anyone else but I got a now tv subscription - costs like a fiver a month and I think you get the 1st month free

ymmv obv but I think this is worth paying practically nothing for

Ty Ty I will happily try both

I agree. Good to get a taster maybe. You're not really going to want to watch this on a laptop screen.

Xp

in australia we're getting it on stan which is $10 a month, so a similar deal. piddling money for such a good show + other stuff.

I'd happily watch this with an AA live commentary, fwiw.

Love Outer Space. Film violence.

xposts to Adam

Yeah, Jordan Belson was a goddamn wizard and can't help but think of him whenever 2001 stargate type stuff comes up. Have a DVD collection of select films and I want more. It's totally mystifying how he achieved some of it.

Unfortunately his estate or whatever refuses to allow any of his full work to be published online, so only couple second clips out there

xxp <3

I have friends who are twin peaks fans but are 10 years older than me and just a little too out of touch, they won't watch this until it's out on DVD. I can't wait till Xmas when I can actually talk to them about it but also feel they're missing out because (going slightly against conventional wisdom) I think this film is absolutely best enjoyed in parts, week to week

Definitely. Big part of the joy for me is chatting about it online and with friends and seeing what crazy stuff the internet finds. So much is gonna be lost and overlooked just plowing straight through.

Agreed. Also there may not even be a DVD by the end of the year. I can't imagine watching seven hours of this then coming up with episode eight - It needs that space as do earlier episodes. That glass box needs a week to take in.

Xp

Even without ~the conversation~ if you're binging 4 episodes at a time are you going to pay attention to the credits eg?

Exactly.

everyone otm love the slow drip

(going slightly against conventional wisdom) I think this film is absolutely best enjoyed in parts, week to week

― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Friday, 30 June 2017 11:07 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

utterly utterly utterly otm. of all the talk about what the new twin peaks is trying to achieve and what qualities it shares with the original, it has revived the water-cooler conversation that made it such a huge sensation in the first place. the water coolers for this show are global now, but the principle's the same: drop some clues, give the audience a few days to come together and thrash them out. anyone who waits until it's all over will never get to experience what twin peaks is all about.

OK maybe it's not against conventional wisdom!

Listen everyone, everyone who is watching right now is level 10, and everyone else who watches later has to start at level 1, ok? Let's all agree on that. If we all enforce this together then it becomes real. Real as paper money. And I helped with coming up with this rule so I'm level 12, and I get unique armor

Really want to tell people "you're doing Twin Peaks The Return" wrong.

KM OTM

wins: it bucks the series-drop binge trend, so in a way it's very much against current conventional wisdom. i mentioned 98,000 posts upthread that this show will probably launch a whole new puzzle-drama genre of television which only works when it's delivered in instalments, giving terrestrial and cable networks a chance to pull back some ground from netflix and amazon prime.

Listen everyone, everyone who is watching right now is level 10, and everyone else who watches later has to start at level 1, ok?

sort of hate admitting this but i'm viscerally furious with people who aren't watching the show as it goes out. they genuinely don't know what they're missing.

I think it will make good money for Showtime. Live Licensing followed by DVD and future streams. Everyone who loves it will want to access it and pay for that, one way or another.

I mean I wholeheartedly believe the same is true for the original series and I binged that lol

I've already come up against "no spoilers" people on Facebook. Okay, like I'm not allowed to discuss this on Facebook in case some people I know and some people I barely know want to watch this all together in October? A friend of mine posted a still of Diane's mid century apartment, which she had lusted after, and got grief for posting Twin Peaks spoilers.

She posted a pic and got grief about spoilers but... This shit is happening. They are losing out.

Re conventional wisdom I thought I remembered the *extremely chad voice* "I don't like the paaaaciiing" crowd saying that this suffered from being an hour at a time but I guess that was mostly on dugpa. Then again I discovered recently that some people were really pissed at the "no, it can wait till morning" joke in the first series! Which is like... leaving aside that if you expected the murder to be solved 3 episodes in you're a dipshit, if you don't get that the tease is part of the pleasure you should maybe stay away from this one.

Xp before this started I decided I wasn't even gonna like a public meme if it might accidentally spoil it for a lagger but then it seemed like everyone just went for it so I loosened up

wins:

I mean I wholeheartedly believe the same is true for the original series and I binged that lol

me too. the hype turned me off in 1990, it's only around 1996 iirc that i rented the whole series (starting with the movie-length cut which made no sense at the time).

Re conventional wisdom I thought I remembered the *extremely chad voice* "I don't like the paaaaciiing" crowd saying that this suffered from being an hour at a time but I guess that was mostly on dugpa.

i had minor misgivings about episode 6 being a midstream sequence of things that are happening with no proper ending, but after episode 8 all is forgiven.

jed (re spoilers): i'm with you on this. giving people a chance to watch the first four was fine, but now it's only 58 minutes a week, and loads of countries get it within an hour of american broadcast. the diane cat's been out of the bag for two and a half weeks ffs. if they don't want it spoiled they can watch it on the day like everyone else.

i mean if people are on facebook going "omg mr c got shot and came back to life" that's probably pushing it, but a photo of diane's living room? eh

like, i'm not deliberately spoiling it for anyone, but i did consider changing my display name to cicadafrogbs

I guess it's a spoiler that there is an actual Diane and that's she's in the show and she's Laura Dern. But deal....

It was. Shock to me too and this show is completely un-spoilerable anyway. Even if you knew everything that happens you'd be guessing along like the rest of us and that's fun so join in.

It was a shock to me too and this show is completely un-spoilerable anyway. Even if you knew everything that happens you'd be guessing along like the rest of us and that's fun, so join in.

CORRECTION.

yes! what are people going to spoil? "well there's that guy from 1991 who's not cooper but looks like him, and he went to prison and came out again, and then he got blood smeared on him by 50 lumberjacks" <-- the entire show is ruined, ruined

Haha, the Twin Peaks official Facebook page is pretty spoilery. And they put spoilery stuff up like immediately after the episode airs sometimes which kinda sucks for people trying to watch it the next day.

Haha thumbs up.

"the giant turned off an alarm and spewed up laura's face" <-- well fuck it, no point watching now that you've spoiled everything

xp to circa1916: stan has been putting up thumbnails of the end of the show, which you have to click on in order to watch the show, which is fucking ridiculous

lol yes

That's such a pointlessly dumb move it's almost comical.

And true, this is kind of impossible to really "spoil" but some moments like the Diane reveal I'd prefer to keep as a surprise.

One of my professors randomly brought up Twin Peaks and offhandedly mentioned Who Killed Laura Palmer in class one day. Granted this was 20 years after the show ended, but the Gold Box had JUST been released and I was set to get it as a gift like a week later. Dumbfounded. I'd studiously avoided that information for years.

the simpsons spoiled the crying game for me