Tag: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
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Gregg Araki Cites the ‘Visionary Insanity’ of ‘Twin Peaks’ as His Biggest Filmmaking Inspiration
From its inception as a primetime soap opera that captivated America with a groundbreaking serialized format to its return as a misunderstood (and subsequently reappraised) movie to its epic coda in the form of one of the most acclaimed limited series of all time, the legacy of “Twin Peaks” has only grown over the past…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at 30: David Lynch’s underrated masterwork
Critics were lukewarm upon release but the resulting decades have been kinder to the unsettling prequel that takes a look at the real Laura Palmer“I’ve already gone places. I kind of like to stay where I am.” The great Harry Dean Stanton tearfully recites these words to FBI agents Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) and Sam…
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Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me: How David Lynch Approaches the Nature of Evil
The cancellation of Twin Peaks left anxious viewers scratching their heads and screaming at the television. That’s it? Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) is now evil, possessed by the spirit of Bob? It was a grim way to end the series at the time, but David Lynch has never been interested in giving the…
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‘The Wolf House’ Review: A Chilean Nazi Cult Inspires One of the Darkest Animated Movies Ever
It might be hyperbolic or unhelpful to label Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s “The Wolf House” as , but merely describing this stop-motion nightmare should be enough to explain the impulse.A grimmer-than-Grimm fairy tale inspired (and ostensibly produced) by Colonia Dignidad — the cult-like Chilean enclave founded by German fugitive Paul Schäfer, an insatiable pedophile…