1/x When Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me came out in 92, much of the (male-dominated) critical community somehow managed to entirely leave out its central dynamic—Laura’s struggle to cope w/ [SPOILER] being sexually abused by her dad (the film’s driving force!)—from their reviews
Conan on TWIN PEAKS: "This show came on that was unlike anything you'd ever seen before. When the pilot ended, everyone's face fell off. It was an obsession. It changed everything...You saw what a TV show could be...I remember being electrified...It's all any of us thought about"
David Lynch in new Sight & Sound mag says he now can only direct remotely: "I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, & so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. I can't go out...B/c of Covid, it would be very bad for me to get sick, even w/ a cold."
(Link to mag is below)
In a new music special… 🎶
🟠 DAVID LYNCH on innovation and his future as a filmmaker
🟠 KNEECAP on their blistering biopic
🟠 BRIAN ENO and WALTER MURCH
🟠 SCORES OF THE CENTURY
Find out what's inside:
Get your copy:
Well, this is a bit uncanny: if you sync the first scene of overlap between TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and THE RETURN's Part 17, then it makes it appear as if Cooper's electrical-arrival to "save" Laura is what causes her angel to disappear in the wall painting. Sound on:
Holy shit. Just realized that David Lynch has been slowly conditioning us over the past two years, with increasing urgency, to believe the rumors about Cannes:
David Lynch on Badalamenti’s death: “It really hit me. I'm not going to be able to call Angelo on the phone, I'm not going to be able to hear his voice anymore, I'm not going to be able to work w him. All this music that's in him, it's not going to come out. It's just horrible.”
On
@BBCSounds
now,
@DrMatthewSweet
's fascinating and surprising interview with everyone's favourite deeply unsettling cinematic genius David Lynch. He's talking about music in his films and his collaboration with film composer Angelo Badalamenti.
TWIN PEAKS - the Red Room x the Glass Box Room: eerie, interdimensional portals of coffee, kissing, & comfy armchairs...
The Sam-and-Tracey scenes of Parts 1 & 2 are evocative of a number of other elements of the show, none more so than TP's various Red Room scenes.
🧵[CONT.]
More recent David Lynch news, from an interview in the Feb 24 Empire mag:
"I have emphysema. And so I've had to quit [smoking] now for 2 yrs, or maybe a little bit more now...So, smoke, for me, is real dangerous. But I just LOVE it so much... [Cheetos is] a better option."
More new David Lynch 2024 activity: at the request of Ryan Reynolds' marketing agency, he voiced a new commercial for a Missoula, MT store, Noteworthy Paper & Press, that sells artisan paper goods. It aired during the Super Bowl yesterday in some local & streaming broadcasts...
Some thoughts on today’s news about David Lynch looking for Netflix or others to back his animated film SNOOTWORLD, co-written by him w screenwriter Caroline Thompson, starting with a tiny update on crumbs about the status of his long-delayed (& thought possibly dead) WISTERIA 🧵
EXCLUSIVE: Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director David Lynch tells us he is hoping to find backers for his under-the-radar animated project Snootworld, even if Netflix recently “rejected” his “fairytale” pitch
David Lynch with a lengthy msg for Putin today:
“We are as human beings charged as to how we treat our fellow man. And there is a law of nature…what you sow, you shall reap…All this death & destruction is gonna come back & visit you
“There’s no room for this kind of absurdity…
Laura Dern busting out her Lynch impression again:
"He's open to everything; everything is kind of a miracle to David. If there's a thunderstorm [& you] have to run & find another location, <Lynch voice> 'it's bc that location is THE PERFECT location, we were MEANT to be [here]'"
!!!!
"Most surprisingly, according to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars."
Pamela Gidley (Teresa Banks in TWIN PEAKS: FWWM) recalled David Lynch drawing a tattoo on her back that didn't make final cut: "It was like a strange-looking angel, sort of half-humanish with wings and it looked like it was sort of just taking off."
If that sounds familiar, well:
More new David Lynch 2024 activity: at the request of Ryan Reynolds' marketing agency, he voiced a new commercial for a Missoula, MT store, Noteworthy Paper & Press, that sells artisan paper goods. It aired during the Super Bowl yesterday in some local & streaming broadcasts...
A special thread for today, 1/19, on how the 119 woman & child in TWIN PEAKS (2017) seem to clearly take partial inspiration from Wendy & Danny in THE SHINING (1980)...
First, the obvious physical similarities—the ages, the body types, the hair, & (in particular) the boy's shirt:
David Lynch, new: “The big mystery is life as a human being. Once you get involved w your life—it’s kind of unfortunate in a way, but it’s OK—you get going in your job, your likes & dislikes, & don’t think about the big mystery really. Sometimes you do—just before u fall asleep.”
🚨 The new David Lynch Netflix project, UNRECORDED NIGHT, is now listed as being co-produced by Twin Peaks Productions, Inc., which, as far as I can tell, has previously *only* been used on Twin Peaks film and TV programs.
Is UNRECORDED NIGHT really part of TWIN PEAKS?
Official confirmation David Lynch's show was cancelled by Netflix. His producer Sabrina Sutherland today:
"Unrecorded Night was a non-Twin Peaks series that was going to shoot at Netflix but was cancelled when the pandemic hit. There’s always a chance we can pick it up again..."
Some thoughts on today’s news about David Lynch looking for Netflix or others to back his animated film SNOOTWORLD, co-written by him w screenwriter Caroline Thompson, starting with a tiny update on crumbs about the status of his long-delayed (& thought possibly dead) WISTERIA 🧵
David Lynch in this month's Cahiers du Cinéma on Denis Villeneuve's DUNE: "I will never watch it, and I don't even want you to tell me about it, ever."
Take this with a grain of salt! Caveats galore!
This morning someone posted on Reddit the below photo of a filming crew at a theater in Ontario, with a clapperboard that identifies the film as WISTERIA, directed by David Lynch, taken on Oct 6, 2023.
Is Lynch filming now? [CONT.]
INLAND EMPIRE's Criterion has new Dern/MacLachlan interview (from ? in 2022) where Laura says she & Lynch have been discussing a new character for her whom David describes as "bad teeth... bad from the beginning, like poverty bad, but then every choice she's made made them worse"
DUNE x TWIN PEAKS
Re: the recent discourse comparing Lynch's DUNE to Villeneuve's, keep in mind
1) Lynch's is 3 hrs shorter;
2) Per the below comp, his primary concerns are his own career-spanning, idiosyncratic spiritual-psychological-metaphorical ideas, not fidelity to the book
INLAND EMPIRE's Criterion has new Dern/MacLachlan interview (from ? in 2022) where Laura says she & Lynch have been discussing a new character for her whom David describes as "bad teeth... bad from the beginning, like poverty bad, but then every choice she's made made them worse"
NME now reporting what Laura Dern told them in September about the David Lynch Cannes rumors of a new film: “People were so excited… I literally got a hundred texts. He’s always cooking. The rumour has partial truth.”
“Partial truth”?
Wisteria rumors coming back into our lives:
Lynch’s producer Sabrina Sutherland today:
“[David] would easily be able to direct anything and possibly will in the future as discussions have been made. Do not count him out of anything - he is not retired or anything close to it. He has just been enjoying working on his art…”
David Lynch in new Sight & Sound mag says he now can only direct remotely: "I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, & so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. I can't go out...B/c of Covid, it would be very bad for me to get sick, even w/ a cold."
(Link to mag is below)
Entering an opening: the portal-zooms of David Lynch.
Clockwise from Top-L, ERASERHEAD (1977) x MULHOLLAND DR. (2001) x BLUE VELVET (1986) x TWIN PEAKS (pilot, 1990) x DUNE (1984) x INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
TWIN PEAKS (2017) Part 18 x Part 1
The sinister Experiment figure first materializes when Tracey is positioned at Sam's left ear in a manner that mirrors the pose of Laura's iconic whisper to Cooper. This seems intentional; in fact, Tracey even whispers in Sam's ear...[CONT.] 🧵
TWIN PEAKS - the Red Room x the Glass Box Room: eerie, interdimensional portals of coffee, kissing, & comfy armchairs...
The Sam-and-Tracey scenes of Parts 1 & 2 are evocative of a number of other elements of the show, none more so than TP's various Red Room scenes.
🧵[CONT.]
Oh, sweet: Laura Dern offers a sympathetic reply to those who are afraid that David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE might be too unmoored from conventional narrative for their tastes:
Rashida Jones on TWIN PEAKS: "It was so scary. This is probably not appropriate for a teen in HS, but I was so scared of BOB, I would check my bed every night. My mom is on the show, I know it's fake!... When I went to the premiere of FWWM, I saw [Frank Silva]... He was so nice."
Filming on 13 eps of David Lynch's UNRECORDED NIGHT is slated to begin May 3, 2021, according to , a tracking service by the Film & Television Industry Alliance (similar to Production Weekly).
TWIN PEAKS (2017), Part 18 x Part 15
Cooper considers. Something slips into place. The woman he's with begins screaming. The lights crackle out. Darkness. (And during it all, a parent and a child communicate distantly.)
Well, TWIN PEAKS co-creator Mark Frost just joined the wisteria-posting club… Make of this what you will. Innocent coincidence? Playful trolling? Skywriting an unambiguous confession that he’s working on a new TWIN PEAKS -linked show with David Lynch? We dunno, so go nuts!
New reports of David Lynch filming something rest entirely on an offhand mention in a single tweet (see below) of a bystander who supposedly was at a restaurant in West Hollywood while he was filming something last Thursday. Bystander could be mistaken, of course...
Today David Lynch is thinking about Björk, & her (stone-cold classic) "Human Behavior," which I've added in below.
Honestly, it's possible he just saw THE NORTHMAN. I know he says he sees very few new films, but the title (& concept) of this seem like they'd be catnip to him.
TWIN PEAKS (2017) || Part 18 x Part 8.
"This would look nice on your wall."
🧵on this painting above the bed in P18's motel, & how it evokes specific desert imagery from P8...
I often see TP fans post the turkey / gobble gobble gobble scene from FWWM for the occasion, but let's be real, this is the most Thanksgiving-y scene in all of TWIN PEAKS:
New report/rumor: "I am utterly convinced David Lynch will world premiere his new movie or TV series at this May’s 75th Cannes Film Festival... We’ll know the full lineup when it is announced next Thursday." - Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel ()
There is going to be a movie at Cannes from one of the best American directors in history! He made two of my all time favourite movies (and we can argue all night over others) and fave TV series. This movie has been kept well under wraps... some even doubt it exists!
One more key point: David Lynch producer Sabrina Sutherland says David "has more ideas for another season" of TWIN PEAKS and she "hope[s] there will be more."
Official confirmation David Lynch's show was cancelled by Netflix. His producer Sabrina Sutherland today:
"Unrecorded Night was a non-Twin Peaks series that was going to shoot at Netflix but was cancelled when the pandemic hit. There’s always a chance we can pick it up again..."
Lynch press release: “Yes, I have emphysema from my many years of smoking… the good news is that I am in excellent shape except for emphysema. I am filled with happiness, and I will never retire.
“I want you all to know that I really appreciate your concern.”
David Lynch in new Sight & Sound mag says he now can only direct remotely: "I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, & so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. I can't go out...B/c of Covid, it would be very bad for me to get sick, even w/ a cold."
(Link to mag is below)
It's an interesting interview; buy the issue!
Other bits:
-"I can only walk a short distance before I'm out of oxygen."
-"[A] lot of times I watch crime shows at night. I like to think & watch TV at the same time. I've seen many Forensic Files... they're like friends."
Lynch is asked whether his 2010 screenplay ANTELOPE DON'T RUN NO MORE will ever get produced. "Well, we don't know what the future will bring... but we remain hopeful."
He says of remote directing, "I wouldn't like that so much... But I would do it remotely, if it comes to it."
“GRACE, IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! TODAY I AM 77 YEARS OLD! SEVEN IS MY FAVORITE NUMBER, BUT 7 AND 7 IS 14, WHICH IS A 5. AND THAT’S HOW OLD I FEEL ON THE INSIDE A LOTTA THE TIME, 5.
“DO YOU LIKE MY MEGAPHONE? I DO! JUST FANTASTIC STUFF.”
In a new interview Christian Petzold posits that David Lynch based Ronette's traumatized walk in TWIN PEAKS' pilot "on a sequence from a documentary Sam Fuller made in 1945 in Germany, where a raped German girl, 16 yrs old, in a soldier’s coat, is going down the street..." [CONT]
"I like that in French and American movies, the summer is not only a season––it’s something where you learn something about yourself."
Christian Petzold talks to
@RorySeanOC
about
#Afire
, horror movies, and
#TwinPeaks
:
Well, first David Lynch said he had an announcement but it turned out to be bs. And then all Twin Peaks cast members started posting photos of wisteria. And then Mark Frost retweeted a photo of wisteria. And then Lynch was allegedly spotted filming but there was no proof of it an
David Lynch today on the music of his upcoming album w Chrystabell: "It takes 2 or 3 times to hear it before it becomes beautiful. 1st hearing it, TOTAL BULLSHIT. 2nd hearing, a little less. 3rd hearing, beauty. It just clicked, as being like a friend. And it conjures memories."
Something for you to see & hear, directed & photographed by David Lynch: the music video for “Sublime Eternal Love,” the new single by him & Chrystabell, out today. The album, CELLOPHANE MEMORIES, is out August 2.
Conan remembers one of his first ever TV appearances, playing Deputy Andy in SNL's TWIN PEAKS spoof for Kyle MacLachlan's Sept. 1990 hosting gig (which was also Chris Farley's debut on SNL, his first ever ep as a cast member):
David Lynch an hour ago:
“Ladies & gentleman: Something is coming along for you to see & hear. And it will be coming along on June 5.”
Best guess is this is teasing a music video for a new album of music by Lynch, but really all bets are off so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Enjoying this 2014 clip of Lynch doing the Keke Palmer "Sorry to this man" meme to Lacan.
(Calls to mind this Mark Frost quote: "I'm a Jungian, I believe in that stuff. David's not psychological, he doesn't even want to hear about it...")
Fine auteurs do negation
Interviewer: Scholars of your work often associate it with the ideas of Freud and Lacan, can you speak about your familiarity with these thinkers?
David Lynch: Um, sure, but I don’t know the second man (laughter) ...
On TWIN PEAKS’ 31st birthday (it premiered on this day in 1990), David Lynch pays tribute to Walter Olkewicz, aka TP’s Jacques Renault, who just passed away:
!!!!
"Most surprisingly, according to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars."
The double-exposure effect of the New Year’s Eve phantoms in THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921, Sjöström)
x
The double-exposure effect of the Woodsmen in TWIN PEAKS (2017, Lynch).
CACHÉ (Michael Haneke, 2005) x
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006)
In each film, Room
#47
acts as the site of confrontation with the driver of the protagonist's haunting. 🧵...
@JoyceCarolOates
Incredibly ungenerous to only watch 30m of one part of a 50-installment work beloved by generations of artists & critics and find that sufficient basis to publicly launch a broadside against it as dull & pretentious.
Something here is dull & pretentious, but it isn’t the show.
TWIN PEAKS (1990), pilot - large switch flipped immediately prior to entrance of Ronette (Phoebe Augustine)
x
TWIN PEAKS (2017), Part 3 - large switch flipped immediately prior to entrance of "American Girl" (Phoebe Augustine).
Had never noticed this parallel until last Friday...
New David Lynch art from the recent special Lynch issue of Cahiers du Cinéma: WHAT DID SHE SAY? (2017-2023, paint/mixed media) - “Wh.. Wh What did she say to me at her house”
Mary Sweeney, new, on Lynch: "We share a way of floating in the material, a refusal to verbalize things w/ clarity, a poetic feeling that must be kept in a state of metaphor & given to the public, inviting the viewer to draw on their own emotional landscape to fill vacant spaces"
Given Lynch's well-known attention to numerology, it seems worth noting this parallel:
In TWIN PEAKS: FWWM, Jeffries appears in a seq. that begins w/ Coop stating the time as 10:10.
In INLAND EMPIRE, Sue creates a portal (by pushing a cigarette thru silk) at... 10:10.
🧵[cont]
David Lynch has a meeting today. Hmm...
"Good morning, this morning I have an early morning meeting, so I have to do the weather report very early. And it's very quiet & dark here, so that's why I gotta talk quietly."
TWIN PEAKS (2017), Parts 17-18 x
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
Often linked to the tale of Orpheus & Eurydice, less commonly remarked upon is how closely the hand-holding nighttime forest walk in the final act David Lynch's TP (2017) mirrors a similar scene in the final act of MD...
SUN IN AN EMPTY ROOM (1963, Edward Hopper) x
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992, David Lynch)
"Edward Hopper makes us all dream, take off from a painting. Magical stuff." - Lynch in a 2007 interview
Diane Ladd (Laura Dern’s mom, & co-star in WILD AT HEART & INLAND EMPIRE) in new interview: “I think Mr. David Lynch is gonna stand up and do a new movie soon. I got that feeling….I just feel like the angels are talking to him. I don’t know everything for sure…”
Cori Glazer, longtime David Lynch script supervisor (and MULHOLLAND DRIVE’s iconic blue-haired lady), posted on IG earlier this evening that she’s stoked to be “back on set next wk.”
Her most recent proj was TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. IMDb (fwiw) lists her on UNRECORDED NIGHT.
A few comparisons of David Lynch artwork to THE RETURN (obvs many others can and have been made), starting with:
TWIN PEAKS, Part 8 (Lynch, 2017) x
SHADOW OF A TWISTED HAND ACROSS MY HOUSE (Lynch, 1988)
NME now reporting what Laura Dern told them in September about the David Lynch Cannes rumors of a new film: “People were so excited… I literally got a hundred texts. He’s always cooking. The rumour has partial truth.”
“Partial truth”?
Wisteria rumors coming back into our lives:
TWIN PEAKS (2017), Part 18 x Part 15
Cooper considers. Something slips into place. The woman he's with begins screaming. The lights crackle out. Darkness. (And during it all, a parent and a child communicate distantly.)
Claire Denis in the new special David Lynch issue of Cahiers du Cinéma: "We Europeans are like drugged by the images of America. David Lynch stages these same images but shows their dangerous, morbid character... They are scary. And they close like claws."
(Transl. via Google)
Fwiw: longtime Lynch fan / filmmaker Cameron Cloutier (that’s his son in vid) says he has confirmation from a an old friend of David that he is preparing to shoot something as soon as the writer's strike ends.
(I cannot verify independently, so make of this what you will...)
First reports on David Lynch’s one-scene performance in Spielberg’s THE FABELMANS are back & so far it’s nothing but praise: he “ruled,” “stole the show,” “is worth the wait,” in “sincerely insane” performance that is “incredible” & quite the “standout.”
Given this David Lynch quote about how he had a "great, great, great, great time" living in Philly, it's shocking to me that Philadelphia's tourism board never hooked up with him to make an ad:
TWIN PEAKS Ep. 23 (1991), dead Josie in drawer knob, x
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951), dead Jacob in door knocker.
In each, the specter’s visage appears on a round object that opens something, & is part of a broader haunting that spans past, present, & future…
Lynch: “You have to keep Angelo alive. I believe life is a continuum, that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body & we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but not devastating if you think like that...we're all going to be fine at the end of the story.”
Lynch, new, on how meeting Badalamenti in 1986 inspired him to make music: “I realized that musicians are just human beings.... Most every musician I’ve met, they’re happy.... It’s like a camaraderie. It’s a joyful, blissful, fantastic thing. And they like to sleep late..."
Carl Jung x TWIN PEAKS:
“A dream which was to preoccupy me all my life:.. a big, heavy curtain...I pushed it aside...[I saw] a tree trunk 12-15 ft high...on top there was something like a rounded head with no face and no hair”
-Jung, MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS (a Frost fave)
Today, Feb. 24th, is the day in TWIN PEAKS that Laura Palmer was murdered.
That many fans choose this day every year to celebrate as a “happy” time, when dashing Agent Cooper first arrived, fits TP’s thematic focus on the mental gymnastics we go through to avoid painful things
To conclude, a quote that seems relevant to TP’s reception:
“The knowledge of horrible events periodically intrudes into public awareness but is rarely retained for long. Denial, repression, and dissociation operate on a social as well as an individual level.”
Judith Lewis Herman
I'm tempted to believe this *may* be intentional synchronicity b/c (a) it's very thematically appropriate (on one level, at least), given Coop's wrongheaded white-knight attempt to change Laura's past, & fits with her fear-filled scream at him moments later in Part 17's retelling
Lynch allegedly is denying the report that he has a film at Cannes.
Variety’s report was based on "two well-informed sources,” & came from their Paris-based foreign correspondent, who presumably is plugged-in to the Cannes crowd.
Misdirection by Lynch? We shall see.
David Lynch just told me in no uncertain terms he does not have a new film at Cannes this year. Take that for what it’s worth.
Also, um I just had David Lynch on the podcast.
Coming soon.