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Watch This: 'Twin Peaks' Wishes You 12 Days of Christmas
17 December 2009 12:32 PM, PST
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Most Christmas specials are colorful and saccharine. That's not a bad thing, of course. It's brought us the wonders of Rudolph, the jolly ho-ho-ho of Santa Claus. But sometimes it's nice to have a sliver of darkness, something beyond Charles Dickens' ghostly look at the past, present, and future. Like, for example, a wholly different other-worldly fellow, one much more sinister with his palindrome name, teamed with sea creatures in the brew and messages to Diane.
Yes, a little blip of Twin Peaks-themed Christmas. After the jump you can watch a Lynchian "12 Days of Christmas." This is not a retro spoof. Recorded for Kroq, it features the famous characters from David Lynch's TV series and movie. Cooper, Lucy, Bob, Bobby, Johnny, and Pete Martell. The song was only commercially available in La, and popped up on radio stations across the country in 1990 (although I never heard it
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- Monika Bartyzel
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'Happy Town' first look: Preview ABC's midseason mystery
15 December 2009 2:21 PM, PST
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ABC hasn't put "Happy Town" on its midseason schedule yet, but you can get a taste of the small-town mystery right now.
The show, which comes from the "Life on Mars"/"October Road" brain trust of Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg, tells the story of an outwardly idyllic small town in Minnesota that's rocked by the presumed return of a kidnapper who terrorized the town in the past. A new crime causes a bunch of secrets to bubble to the surface ...
Sound a little familiar? Others have been describing the show as a latter-day "Twin Peaks" for months now, and ABC has jumped on the bandwagon too -- the "Happy Town" trailer mentions David Lynch's 1990 sensation in the first five seconds. So, you know, no pressure there.
That could be both a blessing -- "Twin Peaks" is fondly remembered (and rightfully so) for being a blast of
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Sneak Peek: ABC's Happy Town
15 December 2009 5:03 AM, PST
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We told you earlier this year about the new ABC mystery series Happy Town. It's from the people who did Life on Mars and is about weird happenings in a small town. Ok, that doesn't describe much, but from the extended preview below, it looks like it has a lot of Twin Peaks and a little Harper's Island. It has a good cast, including Sam Neill, Steven Weber, Amy Acker, Geoff Stults, and Abraham Benrubi.
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- Bob Sassone
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The Prisoner The Complete Series Blu-ray Review
13 December 2009 7:43 AM, PST
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Leave it to the British to invent the cult television show. The Prisoner is the very definition of such sensations that have come to represent so much of TV-dvd collecting. Running seventeen episodes, it was a show I first found on PBS on Saturday nights while waiting for Saturday Night Live, and then once I entered High School was steered to it by friends as the local library had all the episodes on tape in the old, puffy clam-shell boxes. Later, a friend left me all his tapes to hold on to as he moved around the country, reclaiming them a year or two later. Then came the DVD box set, and now the Blu-ray edition. My review of The Prisoner after the jump.
Patrick McGoohan stars as Number 6, a secret agent (and this appears to make the show a semi-sequel to his previous series Danger Man) who resigns, and
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- Andre Dellamorte
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David Lynch to direct new Lady Dior advert
10 December 2009 4:33 AM, PST
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What will David Lynch's Dior advert look like?
Picture the scene: A woman sits in a darkened room, her pale face illuminated by the light of a streetlamp shining through the slats of a venetian blind. She is strikingly beautiful. She is crying, but she's still beautiful - not red-faced and swollen-eyed like normal people. This is because she is Lady Dior.
Lady Dior has a small blue Perspex box in front of her. She reaches out her slender and well-manicured fingers to touch the box. Kazzzam!!!
Lady Dior awakes on a beach in Miami. The camera pans out, accompanied only by the sounds of the waves crashing against the shore. We see in the distance that Lady Dior is
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- Rachel Holmes
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David Lynch's Funny Tale of Meeting George Lucas and Rejecting Return of the Jedi
10 December 2009 3:15 AM, PST
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Fora.tv recently posted an interview with David Lynch at the Hudson Union Society. The 63-year-old creator of Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks took time to talk a little about his experience meeting George Lucas, who offered him the chance to direct Return of the Jedi.
Lynch amused the audience by saying he had "next-door to zero interest" in the project, but he thought he should at least meet with Lucas. He then described the elaborate process of simply getting to Lucas.
It was incredible. I had to go to this building in La first and get a special credit card, and I had to get special keys; a letter came, and a map.
Finally, after taking a flight and driving a rental car to some building, he met with Lucas in an office.
Now, right about in this time, I started getting a little bit of a headache.
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- Rich Z Zwelling
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David Lynch On Refusing To Direct Return Of The Jedi
9 December 2009 4:25 PM, PST
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Who turns down an offer to direct a Star Wars movie straight from George Lucas himself? David Lynch does. The man responsible for films like The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Eraserhead not only decided to take a pass on directing Return of the Jedi, he adamantly refused.
Lynch tells of when Lucas approached him with the offer, which Lynch had .next door to zero interest. in doing. Still, Lynch met with Lucas. Meeting with Lucas isn.t as simple as picking up the phone and choosing a place to chat. He had to go to a building where he was given a special credit card, key and map. He was flown to the location after which Lynch admits he started to develop a headache. Then, Lucas introduced Lynch to the Wookiees and Lynch jokes, .Now, this headache is getting, you know, getting stronger.. When Lynch declined Lucas
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The Naughts: The Romantic Pair of the '00s
9 December 2009 2:59 PM, PST
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I knew what she looked like by heart this time.
That scrap of newspaper she was on should
have been worn ragged by now, the number of
times I'd pulled it out and looked at it when I
was alone in the place.
-- Cornell Woolrich, "The Black Angel"
It's the fear as much as the tenderness. It's the desperation in the way they clutch hands in a darkened theater, and the sensuousness in the way they caress each other in bed. It's the contradiction of having found yourself by stepping into a mystery, and the cruelty of discovering that the heaven of love is a gossamer skein stretched over a black hole. "And the mysteries of love come clear," is the way David Lynch put the paradox in the song he wrote for "Blue Velvet." Those mysteries have never been as heartrending in Lynch's work as they are in
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- Charles Taylor
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'Twin Peaks' Season 2 gets UK release
3 December 2009 3:23 AM, PST
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The second season of Twin Peaks will be released on DVD in the UK on March 22, 2010. The first year of the cult 1990s TV show created by David Lynch and Mark Frost has been available for several years but the UK has so far been excluded from any DVD releases of the 22-episode second season. Stars including Kyle MacLachlan and Sherilyn Fenn return for the series, which also features appearances (more)
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- By Mayer Nissim
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Is Ray Wise the new Alan Dale?
1 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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It's not just .eljko Ivanek who's chasing after Alan Dale to become the Mr Ubiquity of the cult television genre. For with his devilish looks and huge grin, the magnificent Ray Wise has found himself increasingly in demand since his legendary turn as the troubled Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks. Here's a look at his impressive track record, which contains one very eye-opening overlap with Dale's career... Star Trek: The Next Generation - Liko In the 1989 episode 'Who Watches The Watchers', Wise donned heavy prosthetic make-up to play a Mintakan male called Liko. An encounter with Jean-Luc Picard left Liko believing that the bald USS Enterprise Captain was a God who had returned him back from the afterlife. After becoming embroiled in psychological turmoil about his predicament, he decided to shoot Picard with an arrow to test his theory. Not (more)
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- By Ben Rawson-Jones
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Birthday Suits, Funny People
1 December 2009 6:55 AM, PST
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Your cinematic birthdays for December 1st. This post is dedicated to frequent reader/commenter Chris Na Taraja who celebrates the big 4-0 today. Happy Birthday, Chris!
1521 Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord who Kagemusha tried to impersonate. Oopsie. I've actually never seen that Akira Kurosawa picture. How quickly should I rent it?
1913 Mary Martin, broadway star of Peter Pan, The Sound of Music and South Pacific fame. Those famous roles hit silver screens, but without Mary
1935 Woody Allen, legend (abundant posts)
1940 Richard Pryor, influential comedian
1945 Bette Midler the divine. In a fit of complete absence of budgeting sense I nearly purchased a flight to Vegas and a concert ticket last month. Just because. I've never seen her perform on stage but I did used to love her in the movies. Particularly: The Rose, Beaches (so underrated... weepies can't get no respect) and Big Business
1951 Treat Williams enduring B lister. Among the highlights: Hair,
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Danny Arroyo on new film Repo Chick and his passion for superheroes
23 November 2009 12:47 PM, PST
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Among the stars of the upcoming new movie Repo Chick - Alex Cox's so-called "official non-sequel" to his 1984 sci-fi cult classic Repo Man - is Us actor/writer/producer Danny Arroyo.
The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, is co-produced by David Lynch's production company (Eraserhead, Dune, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks) and produced by Daren Hicks and Simon Tams (producers of Batman: Dead End, Searchers 2.0, Hunter Prey).
The official synopsis of the project is: "Against the background of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the Us, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high, the repo business has expanded to everything from boats, houses, aeroplanes, small nations...children."
Jaclyn Jonet stars as the central character Pixxi de la Chasse, a rich girl disinherited by her family for her antics. She ends up
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- David Bentley
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Review: Dexter - Hungry Man
23 November 2009 1:59 AM, PST
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(S04E09) "Everything is exactly the way it should be. Perfect." - Rita Morgan
The season is almost over and that means things are bound to ramp up as Dexter moves in closer to kill the Trinity Killer. But this week, we get treated to a special Thanksgiving episode. Think of it as a sordid cross between the "Thanksgiving Day" episode from Father Knows Best mixed with the director's cut of any episode of Twin Peaks.
After explaining his identity, background and own "Dark Passenger," this week's episode dove head first into his family who aren't as Norman Rockwell as Arthur Mitchell might want Dexter and the rest of the world to believe. It turns out they are probably the most interesting aspect of Mitchell's twisted life and could turn out to be a huge asset to bringing the man down, now that he no longer has them in his upper hand.
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- Danny Gallagher
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Bryan Cranston: from Malcolm In The Middle to America's favourite meth dealer
20 November 2009 4:15 PM, PST
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Star who beat Gabriel Byrne and Hugh Laurie to Best Actor Emmy on his role as the terminally ill, drug-dealing teacher at the heart of Breaking Bad, Us telly's most unlikely success
He's wearing a box-fresh stripy shirt, sharp trousers, highly polished shoes. He has a decent head of hair. Leaning back into a leather armchair, this 53-year-old is clearly at ease with the world around him. His teenage daughter, tucked in the corner of an adjacent sofa and plugged into her iPod, smiles sweetly. Rarely has an actor been less like his on-screen persona. Is this what is was like meeting a charming Jack Nicholson just after he'd finished The Shining?
Here's Bryan Cranston in central London, relaxed, healthy, confident, his west coast voice booming through an invisible loudspeaker when he's excited. It's easy enough to recognise him as Hal, the wayward dad from the long-running American series Malcolm In The Middle
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Lynch To Direct Maharishi Documentary
19 November 2009 4:11 AM, PST
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Twin Peaks director David Lynch has reportedly signed on to make a new movie about Transcendental Meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died in 2008, aged 91.
The moviemaker, who is a big advocate of meditation, will shoot the documentary in India and plans to start shooting there next month.
Lynch hopes his film will help boost his attempts to introduce Transcendental Meditation in schools globally.
Acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed has welcomed Lynch's new project, and he's impressed the director will thoroughly research the film in India.
Zed tells WENN, "He'll be looking at the many finer and deeper things India offered, instead of just focusing on poverty and crime."
During his lifetime, the Maharishi established almost 1,000 Transcendental Meditation centres worldwide and had an estimated four million followers.
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Lynch’s new film: an “abstract” documentary
18 November 2009 4:02 PM, PST
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For the coffee drinking, cherry pie eating, chicken dancing fans of David Lynch everywhere, the announcement of his return to film making should be a glorious one. Yet, as always with the eccentric maestro, there is something of a catch.
The last decade has been a quiet one in the way of film work for David Lynch. Not that he hasn’t kept busy – aside from maintaining his web-site, working on shorts such as Rabbits and the animated Dumbland, adverts for Gucci, music videos for Moby, an exhibition in Paris and a transcendental book called “Catching The Big Fish”, Lynch has kept his fans updated with weather reports and his embracing of Twitter micro-blogging. But, in the way of films, the big-haired auteur’s output has been scant. After re-tooling Mullholland Drive from what was to be a pilot episode for a TV series, the creator of Twin Peaks has
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'Alan Wake' Awakening For May Release?
13 November 2009 4:30 PM, PST
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Previously mentioned as a hopeful Spring 2010 release, Microsoft's Remedy-developed "Alan Wake" may be a lock for May on the 360. The dark, psychological thriller that is reportedly structured episodically to emulate a TV series has been in the workshop for almost half a decade but emerged at E3 as a playable demo. It also appears to be proceeding on schedule -- pending confirmation of course.
Microsoft wants a global release for the title in late May, an unnamed source told McV. The company refused to comment officially, calling the May news "rumor and speculation," but the report quotes its source as saying the game will be promoted "in the style of a Hollywood movie," whatever that means.
Footage that's been release thus far from "Alan Wake" resembles more of a "Twin Peaks"-esque plot than it does a traditional "Uncharted" or "GTA IV"-style action game, setting itself in a remote town called Bright Falls.
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- Brian Warmoth
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The Long Good-Bye: Surviving Hiatus Season (Especially After the Mad Men Season Finale)
10 November 2009 11:27 AM, PST
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Guest post by Sarah T.
Typically, one would expect that September is the most depressing month of the year because school resumes and everything starts getting colder. But when I was a kid, I believed that the worst time of the year was May because all the great shows went on hiatus. Then after two months, the excitement would start to build just in time for the TV network’s new fall line-up previews. But now, if your fav show runs on a specialty or cable channel, hiatus-time is anytime. For example, the Mad Men Facebook group members are agonizing about the very long wait until season 4 starts next summer. It really is painful. But that’s the new TV reality with these shows that are run on cable or pay channels. It’s the trend that we must all accept.
It can be quite a shock if you’re a late-adopter like me.
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'Sorrow' Gets Twisted
8 November 2009 9:30 PM, PST
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Sorrow, Nevada. It sounds like a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to be attacked by angry, restless spirits there.
Actually, Sorrow is a fictional town in a comic book of the same name, which is being adapted into a film by Twisted Pictures, according to Shock Till You Drop. Michael Hidalgo, whose "Butcherhouse Chronicles" script will be going into production at Platinum Dunes, will be writing the screenplay.
Sorrow is being described as The Exorcist meets the dreadful atmosphere of Twin Peaks. Based on a comic by Rick Remender, Seth Peck, and Francesco Francavilla, which was published through Image Comics, it centers around a town ravaged by nuclear testing where the population is supposedly zero. However, a young woman searching for her Native American ancestry soon finds there are locals in Sorrow; but whether they’re actually among the living becomes another question.
"Rick, Seth and
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'Sorrow' Gets Twisted
8 November 2009 9:30 PM, PST
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Sorrow, Nevada. It sounds like a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to be attacked by angry, restless spirits there.
Actually, Sorrow is a fictional town in a comic book of the same name, which is being adapted into a film by Twisted Pictures, according to Shock Till You Drop. Michael Hidalgo, whose "Butcherhouse Chronicles" script will be going into production at Platinum Dunes, will be writing the screenplay.
Sorrow is being described as The Exorcist meets the dreadful atmosphere of Twin Peaks. Based on a comic by Rick Remender, Seth Peck, and Francesco Francavilla, which was published through Image Comics, it centers around a town ravaged by nuclear testing where the population is supposedly zero. However, a young woman searching for her Native American ancestry soon finds there are locals in Sorrow; but whether they’re actually among the living becomes another question.
"Rick, Seth and
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