Tag: Twin Peaks
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How To Watch Moonlighting (Finally)
There wasn’t a funnier or sharper show in the mid-1980s than “Moonlighting” became a Nielsen ratings behemoth.American television viewers weren’t exactly clamoring for an amiably off-kilter riff on “The Thin Man” and 1930s – ’40s screwball comedies at the time, but once they saw Shepherd and Willis bantering with Hepburn-Grant ease, they were sold. “
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Return to ‘Twin Peaks’ in These 1993 Coffee Commercials by David Lynch
It’s been six years since Twin Peaks: The Return was released and left us all speechless with its shocking outcome, and we haven’t gotten a chance to go back to Twin Peaks ever since. Luckily, there’s plenty that can be done for those who still feel nostalgic for it, from enjoying shows that were either…
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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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When ‘Friends’ Killed Off ‘Murder, She Wrote’
Television in the 1990s would be a decade that revolutionized sitcoms and dramas. The Simpsons spoofed a typical family comedy, while Twin Peaks descended a soap opera into dark surrealism. Never was that more clear than when a long-running mystery show confronted this new reality with an emerging sitcom. Murder, She Wrote ran from 1984…
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David Lynch Once Made a Cartoon and It’s Weird as Hell
In David Lynch’s long, illustrious, and eccentric filmmaking career, he has only experimented with animation on a handful of occasions. He used the mode in a couple of his short films as well as in some of the most bizarre or creepiest moments in Twin Peaks and Inland Empire. However, his most straightforward and extended…
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Bad Things review – sharp gender-flipped horror is queer remix of The Shining
Paranormal events spring on internal emotional conflicts in Stewart Thorndike’s study of psychic disturbanceAmerican director Stewart Thorndike’s horror film is a gender-flipped and queered remix of The Shining, complete with a pair of creepy spectres (joggers this time) and an ominous fixation on a particular hotel room. Ruthie (Glow’s Gayle Rankin) turns up for a…
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This ’60s Neo-Noir Inspired David Lynch, From ‘Twin Peaks’ to ‘Blue Velvet’
David Lynch has one of the most unmistakable stylistic fingerprints in modern cinema, with his influence being prevalent enough to warrant the word “Lynchian” in the Oxford English Dictionary. Still, as original as Lynch and his films are, they draw from a certain pool of inspirations — his noir-tinged worlds of insidious criminals hiding in…
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One of David Lynch’s Best Movies Is Also the Most Un-Lynchian Film Possible
On the surface, David Lynch’s underrated 1999 masterpiece The Straight Story couldn’t be further from the director’s typical style and subject matter. However, the road movie tackles many of the same themes and even has much aesthetic similarity to Lynch’s films like Blue Velvet, and especially his TV show Twin Peaks. This may be difficult…
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A New Reissue of David Lynch Collaborator Julee Cruise’s Debut Album ‘Floating Into the Night’ Spotlights Their Special Collaboration
When Julee Cruise died last year on June 9, David Lynch fans lost another of the essential, even inextricable collaborators who became a part of their lives as a result of being part of his art. Her ethereal singing is synonymous with both “Blue Velvet” and the many incarnations of “Twin Peaks,” the latter of…
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When Bob Iger Ruined Season 2 of ‘Twin Peaks’
The meddling studio executive has existed since the dawn of the moving image. Art vs. commerce has been and always will be an endless battle. One of the most known examples of a studio ruining a great thing because they need to make more money — or, even worse, because they seem to know better…