David Lynch - Classic or Dud

He moves in Wisteria's maze.

(That pun has been in my head since Achtung Baby came out. Thought I'd go to my grave without every having an excuse to use it.)

rumours had been swirling about regarding this project for a while, it sounded like the original plan may have been to start shooting may this year until covid happened?

XP good payoff imo

(to pun) I'll say you in 25 years.

is it controversial to say the sax playing in lost highway is good not bad

it’s fun

it's bold

the sax playing, i mean

i've only seen lost highway a few times, but i love the sax in it

My only gripe with the sax is that I can never understand the dialog in the early scenes so I crank up the volume, and then get blown out by that sax. I assume this was by design.

the sax is one of the best parts

The sax scene is second only to The Lost Boys imho

the new series is now known as Unrecorded Night

https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/news/unrecorded-night-david-lynch-netflix/

That is a great title tbh

yeah way cooler imho

Imagining lynch’s people putting the title out there after he is dismayed at everyone making desperate housewives jokes, similar to the agent Jeffries thing where he was like “it’s just a device, why does everyone keep calling it a tea kettle”

Colour me excited for this btw, Netflix is good now

My hometown (home of the world's largest wistaria plant) actually has an annual Wistaria Festival so without any evidence* I'm hoping that it will all be filmed here.

*A lot of film production is done here... Laura Palmer's funeral in the original TP was filmed in the town cemetery.

i hate seinfeld but

starting 2021 by making the dumbest and most niche stuff imaginable. here's part two of Seinfeld: The Return, my series where i imagine a Seinfeld revival in the style of Twin Peaks pic.twitter.com/02BfAOpWHA

— dom nero (@dominicknero) January 2, 2021

Happy Birthday, DL!
Also, currently reading "Room To Dream" and it's great. The definitive (auto)biography?

sorry to #onethread but if the GOP was smart they'd try to tap him for the next GOP nominee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeU8-HqUgYA

the great fillummaker

So, something may happen tomorrow, or not, or...

David Lynch's announcement, tomorrow, February 1st. pic.twitter.com/ltPvZa3hY1

— Black Lodge Cult (@BlackLCult) January 31, 2021

Thinking about him pic.twitter.com/otHOQFJy7y

— meg “yar” bitchell (@MeganBitchell) January 31, 2021

What are the chances that TP S4 may be coming? Several cast members obliquely chimed in on twitter.

whomst?

I have to imagine chances are low if he's focusing on a whole new project.

it's possible the new netflix project could be twin peaks-related and lynch has said the occasional thing which has suggested that could be the case

I'm guessing it will be Peaks related to the same extent Mulholland Dr is Peaks related.

my hopes are some new series that's funded and substantial,
my expectations are the february weather outlook

im furiously refreshing david lynch's youtube channel lol

Keep us posted.

I don't know if it was posted itt or in a different t but someone noted that the production company name affiliated with the new Lynch project has only previously been used for TP-related projects. So...

looooooool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapYuD5hDVw

Hahaha

what a fucking gem

I'm so stupid that a major part of my brain is like "ok but maybe he's saving something for the number picking video"

Never dream, and you’ll never fail to achieve your dream

Lost Highway is so great. “50,000 PEOPLE DIED ON THE HIGHWAY LAST YEAR!”

I really recommend “Room To Dream” . Based on the anecdotes in there about how physically gruelling it was for him to make TP:TR I’d be surprised if he puts himself through something similar again.

“AND YOU...what the fuck is your name?”

I'm sort of fascinated by Lynch's late-career presence in the culture, his weather reports, this kind of affection that I feel like a lot of people feel for him even if they haven't seen all of his work. Thinking about him a lot lately, because we've been doing the entire Twin Peaks run with our kids (skipping a lot of the non-Lynch backhalf of S2). We're all the way thru Fire Walk With Me and up to about episode 6 of TP:TR. The kids (ages 13 and 16) both get him, they think he's weird and funny and disturbing, they laugh and freak out in all the right places.

He almost reminds me of Bob Dylan, the way he has both created a remarkable, enduring and influential body of work (I see so many things in so many movies, music videos, TV shows that have obviously absorbed Lynch) and has also created himself as a figure, a sort of friendly unreliable narrator that you're always happy to hear from.

He’s pretty similar to Herzog in that respect.

The folksy vibe that he affects is personally kind of a turn-off for me, and I've given him the side-eye for a few things over the years - but I watched every minute of the TP: The Return behind-the-scenes stuff, and not only was it really cool watching him work (actually kind of amazing to see him describe to actors how a scene should look, and he's describing the exact finished scene you already have in your head), but I guess it also led me to like/respect him more as a "person," at least in that context (and keeping in mind of course you're seeing what they choose to show you).

I feel like the fact that many of the same people have continued working with him for decades is about as glowing a recommendation for him as a person as you'll find in Hollywood these days.

Even the few times he gets frustrated and “loses his cool” a bit in those BTS scenes... he doesn’t fly off the handle or get abusive.

(He also just generally seems to treat cast & crew with real respect.)

I'm not sure his folksy vibe is exactly affected. He plays it up, but I also think it's him. Like, I don't think there's a totally non-folksy-eccentric David Lynch not visible to the public.

He has talked about being an angry person and how meditation helped with that. He has also said that he looked into therapy but he was afraid that it would interfere with his art.

I also remembered that an acquaintance recently told me a story about an incredible experience hanging out w/Lynch back in the 2000s (this guy’s roommate at the time was Lynch’s assistant)—it sounded like Lynch was really cool (and, yes, genuinely eccentric).

One side detail is that Lynch would sometimes call the apartment and ask for the roommate (I forget his name, let’s say it was Scott)—“SCOTT? IS THIS SCOTT?” Hi, David – no, this is Mike. “HI MIKE! PLEASE TELL SCOTT THAT I NEED A (whatever lens or piece of equipment) RIGHT AWAY. THANK YOU!” etc.