David Lynch

[Alan Smithee]

So supposedly Lynch is working on Twin Peaks season 3 but this is wildly speculative from an entirely unsubstantiated source.

[hearthesilence]

I've seen the whole series run, and I'm kind of surprised I don't remember that moment with Sherilyn Fenn.

[Mathew2468]

I'm surprised that it took me so long to realise that the show was named after her:

[JamesF]

So supposedly Lynch is working on Twin Peaks season 3 but this is wildly speculative from an entirely unsubstantiated source.

Mark Frost seems to deny it.

[Finch]

Well, at least Frost shot it down quickly but it is/was an exciting prospect especially if they did go with the "25 years later" idea. Bob and Donna would have to recast (Silva died in 94 of AIDS, and Lara Flynn Boyle had plastic surgery) and since they already recast her for FWWM, they might as well ask Moira Kelly to come back (who I thought was a better fit for the character than Boyle). Major Briggs would still be missing and Pete Mortell could have been killed with Andrew Packard in the bank explosion.

Not sure though if they did it bring back, that it'd be best served by being on a network channel like NBC (though my understanding is that they own the rights to the show). HBO would seem more accommodating to Lynch's style.

[aox]

I believe the original source was 4Chan.

[Finch]

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/david-lynch-working-on-a-new-typically-dark-script-20130227

[Napier]

David Lynch cooks quinoa part 1

part 2

[Matt]

That's several years old, from the Inland Empire DVD.

[Napier]

That's several years old, from the Inland Empire DVD.

Sorry. I didn't realize it might have been posted there. I just thought it was most excellent. And a little creepy.

[Tommaso]

It's about the weirdest and at the same time funniest short I've ever seen. A few friends and me actually set out to cook Quinoa once we had seen it. A very tasty dish indeed.

[Gregory]

A couple people already made comments to this effect on YouTube, but it's best to rinse the quinoa thoroughly in a fine mesh strainer, or else it can be left with a bitter aftertaste. IMO, he makes a lot of the common mistakes with quinoa there. It's better to measure out the water (2 parts to 1 part quinoa) to avoid getting too much, which can quickly make the quinoa mushy. After it cooks (15 minutes) it should be drained and then put back in the warm saucepan for about 5 minutes (not in a cold bowl) to help dry it out a little further.
I hope it doesn't come across like I missed the enjoyable purpose of these videos; I just hope this info helps people get better-tasting, non-mushy quinoa. He narrates his actions and tells stories in a way I would never even think of. You don't just enjoy a glass of wine while waiting for the quinoa, you have the wine because it buys you some time. I love it.

[Finch]

Calum Marsh on Fire Walk With Me

It's not hard to understand the enduring distaste. Fire Walk With Me is deliberately oblique, even by Lynch standards, asking questions without answers and providing clues to no mystery. Its narrative is split in two, seemingly without reason, a division introduced when our hero is apparently swallowed up by a gaping hole in the center of the picture (a hole he finds beneath a parked RV in America's least inviting trailer park, naturally).

Most gallingly, especially for audiences circa '92, the film purports to be a prequel to perhaps the most beloved cult television series of the decade, though in truth it's more interested in systematically dismantling the mythos and iconography of Twin Peaks than in pandering to the show's fanbase with some feature-length trip down TV-memory lane. The film is alarmingly dark. It isn't especially funny, or quirky, or even much in keeping with the spirit of the series. But in its own singular, deeply strange way, Fire Walk With Me is David Lynch's masterpiece.

It helps to think about genre. Like the series, the film plays in pastiche. Adopting conventions from the police procedural, daytime soap operas, post-war noir, and 1950s melodrama, Fire Walk With Me is a postmodern hybrid in flux, its style ever-drifting and its formal makeup a composite of self-conscious clichés. The purpose of all this appropriation, however, isn't merely to ironize outmoded forms or tropes—as it often is in the work of the Coen brothers—but to embrace those antiquated modes and deploy those old-fashioned tropes in earnest. The film uses melodrama, in particular, to replicate the function and goal of the genre: targeting the veneer of sanctity in the middle-class American home and exposing its hypocrisy and corruption.

If Fire Walk With Me seems like a nightmare, it's the same one reflected in James Mason's descent into suburban madness in Nicholas Ray's classic melodrama Bigger Than Life. And what's scary is that the nightmare is real. Fantasy was always a central, if only implied, component of the classical melodrama, animating the social aspirations and wish-fulfillment of a rising class founded on subjugation and fear. The melodrama sought to undermine the contradictions inherent in an imagined good life, its stories essentially bourgeois dreams inflated to grotesque proportions.

[flyonthewall2983]

David to direct video for Nine Inch Nails

[mfunk9786]

David to direct Trent

[domino harvey]

And people he really likes, he lets them call him Jamie

[Ibnezra]

I'm seeing a lot of Lynch's short films on Criterion's Hulu page, which is a great thing, but where's, "The Cowboy & The Frenchman"?

[nolanoe]

Probably lost.

That said: there are various sources claiming they have spoken to TP-actors who claimed Lynch is "working on a third season". [-o<

[Robin Davies]

I'm seeing a lot of Lynch's short films on Criterion's Hulu page, which is a great thing, but where's, "The Cowboy & The Frenchman"?

It's been available for years on the Short Films DVD.

[Ibnezra]

Well, I'm just hoping if his short films get a Blu-Ray Criterion release, they won't leave it off. It may seem odd, but it's my favorite thing he's done.

[bainbridgezu]

Well, I'm just hoping if his short films get a Blu-Ray Criterion release, they won't leave it off. It may seem odd, but it's my favorite thing he's done.

I don't think it's odd at all; The Cowboy and the Frenchman is definitely among my very favorite Lynch-things. Of his shorts, I prefer it even to The Grandmother.

Unfortunately, MK2 (which holds Eraserhead and the Lynch shorts that are on Hulu) does not have the US rights for The Cowboy and the Frenchman.

However, it could still be bundled with Criterion's physical release of the other titles, as they've been able to package supplements from different licensors in the past. Badlands, for example, included an episode of American Justice borrowed from Sony.

[Ibnezra]

Here's hoping they expend the energy and the funds to include it.

I'd certainly purchase a Criterion release of "Eraserhead", but never a short films collection that failed to collect such a bizarre and strangely endearing farce as "The Cowboy and The Frenchman". It really captures Lynch's twisted sense of humor as well as any of his feature films, but without the disturbing twists that he explored even in the otherwise up, "Wild at Heart." It's as care-free as he ever got, and it's surprising he didn't drop his guard more often, because he really wears it well.

[PfR73]

If you haven't seen the NIN video, it was released a few months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN6pT3zL44

I think parts of it are great (the footage of Reznor & the monsters), but other parts like the red squares & lines are a little silly. But overall I like it.

[jindianajonz]

My dad recently told me that he was friends with David Lynch in elementary school and foundthis class photo of them online. Apparently the two of them and a third kid had an ongoing "contest" throughout the year where they would see who could fart the loudest while the teachers back was turned.

Ironically enough, he's never seen a David Lynch movie, and given his taste (he loves Remember the Titans, United 93, and everything that falls strictly in between) I really don't think he would care for any of them.

And coincidentally, he's a property manager, and one of his properties is Twin Peaks shopping center in Orange County.

[Matt]

Ironically enough, he's never seen a David Lynch movie, and given his taste (he loves Remember the Titans, United 93, and everything that falls strictly in between) I really don't think he would care for any of them.

Try The Straight Story. That's a "dad" movie if there ever was one.