Kyle MacLachlanis having a full-circle moment.
The 58-year-old actor received his second Golden Globe nomination for his reprisal of Agent Dale Cooper in Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival, nearly three decades after winning the award for the character in 1991.
“It is a little unreal,” MacLachlan told Et on Monday morning after the nominations were announced. “It really points to the power of Cooper and how he resonates with so many people. Also, the fact that [creators] David Lynch and Mark Frost were able to write something so compelling -- not necessarily a nostalgic revisit of something we had seen before -- but an entirely new story with the same characters, that they were able to make it as extraordinary as they are.”
In the 18-part series, also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, MacLachlan found himself portraying three vastly different characters (the evil Mr. C, Dale Cooper and Dougie Jones), providing him the unique and rare opportunity...
The 58-year-old actor received his second Golden Globe nomination for his reprisal of Agent Dale Cooper in Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival, nearly three decades after winning the award for the character in 1991.
“It is a little unreal,” MacLachlan told Et on Monday morning after the nominations were announced. “It really points to the power of Cooper and how he resonates with so many people. Also, the fact that [creators] David Lynch and Mark Frost were able to write something so compelling -- not necessarily a nostalgic revisit of something we had seen before -- but an entirely new story with the same characters, that they were able to make it as extraordinary as they are.”
In the 18-part series, also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, MacLachlan found himself portraying three vastly different characters (the evil Mr. C, Dale Cooper and Dougie Jones), providing him the unique and rare opportunity...
- 12/11/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
When Kyle MacLachlan won a Golden Globe award in 1991, he was nominated for the television series “Twin Peaks” in the role of Agent Dale Cooper. In 2018, when he attends the 75th Annual Golden Globes, he’ll again be nominated in the TV category for his portrayal of Dale Cooper.
But should he be nominated for film, instead?
Though no one debated what “Twin Peaks” was when it debuted on ABC in 1990, many consider its sequel, “The Return,” to be more of a film than a TV show. And MacLachlan is one of them.
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“I lean toward the film example only because it was written as one story,” MacLachlan said in an interview with IndieWire, shortly after the nominations were announced. “We were all encouraged not to refer to it as episodes, but as hours.
But should he be nominated for film, instead?
Though no one debated what “Twin Peaks” was when it debuted on ABC in 1990, many consider its sequel, “The Return,” to be more of a film than a TV show. And MacLachlan is one of them.
Read More:Golden Globes 2018 TV Snubs and Surprises: ‘Mindhunter’ Shut Out as ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Makes a Splash
“I lean toward the film example only because it was written as one story,” MacLachlan said in an interview with IndieWire, shortly after the nominations were announced. “We were all encouraged not to refer to it as episodes, but as hours.
- 12/11/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
“Twin Peaks” is relying on Laura Palmer to help it face off in this year’s Golden Globes race.
IndieWire has managed to secure the Showtime show’s “For Your Consideration” mailer for Hollywood Foreign Press Association members, and it’s definitely a must-see collectible for any fan of the David Lynch revival.
Because “Twin Peaks” aired during the summer, it wasn’t eligible for this past September’s Emmys — which means this represents the revival’s first shot at awards consideration. The show is competing in the Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television category, and it’s considered a front-runner.
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But leaving nothing to chance, hellooooo, the awards team at Showtime came up with a rather cool package meant to be sent exclusively to Globes voters.
The...
IndieWire has managed to secure the Showtime show’s “For Your Consideration” mailer for Hollywood Foreign Press Association members, and it’s definitely a must-see collectible for any fan of the David Lynch revival.
Because “Twin Peaks” aired during the summer, it wasn’t eligible for this past September’s Emmys — which means this represents the revival’s first shot at awards consideration. The show is competing in the Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television category, and it’s considered a front-runner.
Read More:Twin Peaks’ Season 4: Mark Frost Is Considering Making New Episodes, Showtime ‘Musing as Well’ — Exclusive
But leaving nothing to chance, hellooooo, the awards team at Showtime came up with a rather cool package meant to be sent exclusively to Globes voters.
The...
- 11/30/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
In New York, where native son Harvey Weinstein is already under police investigation for his alleged serial harassment and abuse against women, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Oct. 23 that he has opened his own investigation into Weinstein’s namesake former company. “No New Yorker should be forced to walk into a workplace ruled by sexual intimidation, harassment, or fear,” Schneiderman said in a statement. “If sexual harassment or discrimination is pervasive at a company, we want to know.” On Oct. 5, The New York Times reported that Weinstein had paid at least eight settlements to women who have accused him of everything from fostering an inappropriate workplace culture to rape. Over the next few days, The Weinstein Company hired lawyer John Kiernan to investigate, and fired its co-founder and co-chairman, who was said to be hampering Kiernan’s efforts. However, according to TMZ, the employment Weintsein signed in 2015 pledged to forgive...
- 10/23/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
A woman filed a police report with Lapd Thursday claiming Harvey Weinstein raped her in 2013, and the Department has launched a criminal investigation. The woman is an Italian model/actress who claims she attended the Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival in February, 2013. She claims she had met Weinstein before, and in fact she says at the time he asked her up to his room but she declined. On this occasion, she says Weinstein showed...
- 10/19/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The beauty of how David Lynch and Mark Frost ended “Twin Peaks” is that so many clues have been left open to interpretation. IndieWire wrote about one theory, in which Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) has been positioned as the savior, a white knight for good who will attempt to save Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) over and over again against the forces of evil.
But while “The Return” traced Cooper’s slow awakening from his Dougie stupor to the familiar coffee-loving FBI agent, the season also marked a gradual transition from the depiction of women as victims of violence to figures who have actively been locked in the fight all along. It turns out that this has been a battle with female forces on both sides, ranging from the deep evil known as Judy and the frightening Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie) to Laura as “The One” and even Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn...
But while “The Return” traced Cooper’s slow awakening from his Dougie stupor to the familiar coffee-loving FBI agent, the season also marked a gradual transition from the depiction of women as victims of violence to figures who have actively been locked in the fight all along. It turns out that this has been a battle with female forces on both sides, ranging from the deep evil known as Judy and the frightening Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie) to Laura as “The One” and even Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn...
- 9/6/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Joe Matar Sep 5, 2017
As gripping as it is disappointing, Twin Peaks: The Return once again ends with more questions than answers. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
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With the season finale distinctly divided into two separate episodes, Part 17 of Twin Peaks: The Return is unquestionably the more climactic of the two. Considering the unhurried pace at which David Lynch and Mark Frost eased into Cooper’s return in Part 16 (and, well, the entire series), the pacing of this episode is practically breakneck.
Beginning with a joke about how Gordon Cole’s penis is still functional (yeesh), we then get a big chunk of exposition about the infamous Judy, who is an evil entity (so, I’ve narrowed that down to either Bob or that ghostly thing that came out of...
As gripping as it is disappointing, Twin Peaks: The Return once again ends with more questions than answers. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Here's your first look at Murder On The Orient Express Part 17 “The past dictates the future.”
With the season finale distinctly divided into two separate episodes, Part 17 of Twin Peaks: The Return is unquestionably the more climactic of the two. Considering the unhurried pace at which David Lynch and Mark Frost eased into Cooper’s return in Part 16 (and, well, the entire series), the pacing of this episode is practically breakneck.
Beginning with a joke about how Gordon Cole’s penis is still functional (yeesh), we then get a big chunk of exposition about the infamous Judy, who is an evil entity (so, I’ve narrowed that down to either Bob or that ghostly thing that came out of...
- 9/4/2017
- Den of Geek
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return” up until the finale.]
With only two hours left in “Twin Peaks,” there are still a lot of questions to be answered. Of course, anyone who’s seen all 16 hours of “The Return” knows it’s a fool’s errand to expect explicit clarification on everything. Some events are random. Some illustrate a tonal shift. Some are purposefully ambiguous.
But there are a few pertinent tidbits which could benefit from further exploration. Below, IndieWire has collected a batch of questions we wouldn’t mind having David Lynch and Mark Frost address — via their expressionist ideals — in what everyone expects to be a damn good finale.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ is Flying Into Its Finale: Why All That Action Could Lead to a Definitive Ending Why is Laura “the one”?
In one message for Hawk (Michael Horse), the Log Lady (Catherine Coulson) said, “Watch and listen to the dream of time and space. It all comes out now,...
With only two hours left in “Twin Peaks,” there are still a lot of questions to be answered. Of course, anyone who’s seen all 16 hours of “The Return” knows it’s a fool’s errand to expect explicit clarification on everything. Some events are random. Some illustrate a tonal shift. Some are purposefully ambiguous.
But there are a few pertinent tidbits which could benefit from further exploration. Below, IndieWire has collected a batch of questions we wouldn’t mind having David Lynch and Mark Frost address — via their expressionist ideals — in what everyone expects to be a damn good finale.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ is Flying Into Its Finale: Why All That Action Could Lead to a Definitive Ending Why is Laura “the one”?
In one message for Hawk (Michael Horse), the Log Lady (Catherine Coulson) said, “Watch and listen to the dream of time and space. It all comes out now,...
- 9/1/2017
- by Ben Travers and Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series."Finally," says the One-Armed Man a.k.a. Phillip Gerard (Al Strobel) about midway through Part 16 of Mark Frost and David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival, right after a certain FBI Special Agent returns to the world of the living. It's been 13 episodes since we've seen full trace of Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), though even then he wasn't entirely himself. (Being trapped for 25 years in the otherworldly Black Lodge has a way of tempering certain personality traits.) Now, however, he's "one hundred percent" (in his estimation, anyway), and there's certainly plenty of giddy pleasure to be had watching the energetic, Boy Scout-like Cooper of old take charge. But that presumes that this is the Dale Cooper of old, and it quickly becomes apparent that that's not the case.
- 8/29/2017
- MUBI
In the third to last episode of this season of Twin Peaks, fans of the show were greeted by one of the most anticipated moments since David Lynch‘s zany show returned to air. After Dougie went into a coma in episode 15, he was transported to a hospital. Inside the hospital, at the beginning of episode […]
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- 8/28/2017
- by Jacob Kaye
- Uinterview
Joe Matar Aug 29, 2017
David Lynch finally gives the fans what they want. 100%. Spoilers ahead in our review of No Knock, No Doorbell...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.16 No Knock, No Doorbell
Let’s get this out of the way up front: this was an exhilarating episode of Twin Peaks: The Return that gave me chills all over. How could it not be? David Lynch and Mark Frost finally gave us, after withholding it until the sixteenth hour, what we wanted. That said, I still believe this was a weaker episode than the previous one.
For one thing, before the big payoff came,...
David Lynch finally gives the fans what they want. 100%. Spoilers ahead in our review of No Knock, No Doorbell...
This review contains spoilers.
See related The Flash season 4 needs to make Barry a hero again Arrow season 6: Fringe's Kirk Acevedo will play new villain Supergirl season 3: Kevin Smith returning to direct Legends Of Tomorrow season 3: brand new trailer Black Lightning won't have 'freak of the week' villains
3.16 No Knock, No Doorbell
Let’s get this out of the way up front: this was an exhilarating episode of Twin Peaks: The Return that gave me chills all over. How could it not be? David Lynch and Mark Frost finally gave us, after withholding it until the sixteenth hour, what we wanted. That said, I still believe this was a weaker episode than the previous one.
For one thing, before the big payoff came,...
- 8/28/2017
- Den of Geek
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return” Episode 16, “Part 16.”]
As David Lynch and Mark Frost round the curve toward the home stretch, all of the dedication and hours that viewers have put in begin to snowball into payoff after payoff in the penultimate installment for the show. But just as Eddie Vedder — sneakily introduced by his birth name Edward Louis Severs III — sings at the Roadhouse, this life and this series are “running out of sand.” The passage of time is one that we’ve been made acutely aware of in “The Return,” with reminders from characters who now have wrinkles or adult offspring and the fact that many of the actors have already passed.
The biggest payoff of course is that “Dougie” (Kyle MacLachlan) wakes from getting electrocuted and is 100 percent Cooper now, with the clear diction, upstanding nature, and take-charge attitude that’s made him so appealing from the beginning. And although he sips approvingly of a dark,...
As David Lynch and Mark Frost round the curve toward the home stretch, all of the dedication and hours that viewers have put in begin to snowball into payoff after payoff in the penultimate installment for the show. But just as Eddie Vedder — sneakily introduced by his birth name Edward Louis Severs III — sings at the Roadhouse, this life and this series are “running out of sand.” The passage of time is one that we’ve been made acutely aware of in “The Return,” with reminders from characters who now have wrinkles or adult offspring and the fact that many of the actors have already passed.
The biggest payoff of course is that “Dougie” (Kyle MacLachlan) wakes from getting electrocuted and is 100 percent Cooper now, with the clear diction, upstanding nature, and take-charge attitude that’s made him so appealing from the beginning. And although he sips approvingly of a dark,...
- 8/28/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
The following contains shock-shock-shocking spoilers from Part 16 of Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival.
“Finally,” indeed.
Until TVLine recapper M.T. Wentz gets here bright and early Monday with his deep dive into Twin Peaks Part 16 (of 18), I wanted to give everyone (myself included) a place to cough up some initial reactions to alllllll that transpired during that hugely eventful hour — before and after, but primarily including the long-awaited “awakening” of FBI Agent Dale Cooper.
On the heels of a cold open in which Mr. C dispatched Richard Horne to scout out the precise location of the coordinates given to him...
“Finally,” indeed.
Until TVLine recapper M.T. Wentz gets here bright and early Monday with his deep dive into Twin Peaks Part 16 (of 18), I wanted to give everyone (myself included) a place to cough up some initial reactions to alllllll that transpired during that hugely eventful hour — before and after, but primarily including the long-awaited “awakening” of FBI Agent Dale Cooper.
On the heels of a cold open in which Mr. C dispatched Richard Horne to scout out the precise location of the coordinates given to him...
- 8/28/2017
- TVLine.com
As “Twin Peaks” starts nearing its end, David Lynch has been kind enough to start giving the series a little bit of closure when it comes to the familiar characters in the town. The central mystery, however, is more baffling than ever, and the most recent question on everyone’s mind is the fate of Special Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan).
In the last episode, Cooper is living his best Dougie life by digging into some chocolate cake when he catches on TV the portion of “Sunset Boulevard” that mentions Gordon Cole, which happens to be the same name as his old FBI Director pal, played by Lynch. Recognition spurs Cooper into action, and he sticks a fork into the electrical socket. Cut to outside of the house as the sounds of Dougie’s wife Janey-e (Naomi Watts) screaming within can be heard.
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In the last episode, Cooper is living his best Dougie life by digging into some chocolate cake when he catches on TV the portion of “Sunset Boulevard” that mentions Gordon Cole, which happens to be the same name as his old FBI Director pal, played by Lynch. Recognition spurs Cooper into action, and he sticks a fork into the electrical socket. Cut to outside of the house as the sounds of Dougie’s wife Janey-e (Naomi Watts) screaming within can be heard.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Just Explained How Dougie...
- 8/25/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.The best things come to those who wait, and Big Ed Hurley (Everett McGill) has long been dreaming of the moment that opens Part 15 of Mark Frost and David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival. "I've been a selfish bitch to you all these years," says his one-eyed wife Nadine (Wendy Robie), who's walked a long way—a Dr. Jacoby/Dr. Amp gold, shit-digging shovel slung over her shoulder—to the cash-only Gas Farm that Ed has run for most of his life. She states the obvious: Ed is in love with Rr Diner propietor Norma Jennings (Peggy Lipton), and she, Nadine, has always stood in his way. Those days are finally over. Ed is reluctant to think of this as anything beyond another of his spouse's manic episodes.
- 8/22/2017
- MUBI
Recently, Seth Meyers imagined what his NBC talk show might look like if it was set in The Red Room. Despite the opportunity for easy potshots at the preposterousness of “Twin Peaks,” the two-minute segment played it pretty straight.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: David Lynch Bids a Pensive Goodbye in a Powerful ‘Part 15’
The original opening titles were reincorporated along with the 4:3 framing of the original seasons. There were stand-ins for Laura Palmer and The Man From Another Place, while Meyers took over the role of Agent Dale Cooper. For anyone familiar with the series, the video homage was quite fun. For anyone else, it would’ve been quite weird.
But one thing stood out above the rest: Seth Meyers was moving too much.
Now, that’s not a slight against Meyers. His take on Agent Cooper was about as physically restrained as possible, barring any lessons from...
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: David Lynch Bids a Pensive Goodbye in a Powerful ‘Part 15’
The original opening titles were reincorporated along with the 4:3 framing of the original seasons. There were stand-ins for Laura Palmer and The Man From Another Place, while Meyers took over the role of Agent Dale Cooper. For anyone familiar with the series, the video homage was quite fun. For anyone else, it would’ve been quite weird.
But one thing stood out above the rest: Seth Meyers was moving too much.
Now, that’s not a slight against Meyers. His take on Agent Cooper was about as physically restrained as possible, barring any lessons from...
- 8/21/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Joe Matar Aug 21, 2017
Twin Peaks does what it does best in episode fifteen - mingling soap opera, police procedural and the otherworldly. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.15 There's Some Fear In Letting Go
As we draw close to the end of this limited series, bombshells are dropping more consistently. This part was a rip-roaring cocktail of murder, love, and deeply sad goodbyes.
Most of the episode is tragic and violent, so it starts us off with a huge, wonderful reward: the long-delayed union of Big Ed and Norma. I’ll admit, it was abrupt. I suppose we’re meant to understand that Nadine and Jacoby (alias Dr. Amp)’s connection two episodes back led to her decision to let Ed go, but it still...
Twin Peaks does what it does best in episode fifteen - mingling soap opera, police procedural and the otherworldly. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.15 There's Some Fear In Letting Go
As we draw close to the end of this limited series, bombshells are dropping more consistently. This part was a rip-roaring cocktail of murder, love, and deeply sad goodbyes.
Most of the episode is tragic and violent, so it starts us off with a huge, wonderful reward: the long-delayed union of Big Ed and Norma. I’ll admit, it was abrupt. I suppose we’re meant to understand that Nadine and Jacoby (alias Dr. Amp)’s connection two episodes back led to her decision to let Ed go, but it still...
- 8/21/2017
- Den of Geek
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return” Episode 14, “Part 14.”]
“Twin Peaks” dropped a major hint on Sunday about the origins of Dougie, the man whom Evil Cooper/Mr. C created as a decoy, and whose life Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) took over upon his return to the real world.
While it seemed apparent that Evil Cooper made the fake version of himself to act as a replacement who would be called back to the Black Lodge in his place, it wasn’t clear what exactly Dougie was or how he came to be. A scene in “Part 14” between Albert (Miguel Ferrer) and Tammy (Chrysta Bell) sheds light on the man who was Dougie.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Big Secrets Spill Out in ‘Part 14,’ But the Truth Lies Within David Lynch’s Dreams
The two discuss the very first Blue Rose case in which FBI agents investigate two women — both who appear to be someone named Lois Duffy — in a hotel room.
“Twin Peaks” dropped a major hint on Sunday about the origins of Dougie, the man whom Evil Cooper/Mr. C created as a decoy, and whose life Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) took over upon his return to the real world.
While it seemed apparent that Evil Cooper made the fake version of himself to act as a replacement who would be called back to the Black Lodge in his place, it wasn’t clear what exactly Dougie was or how he came to be. A scene in “Part 14” between Albert (Miguel Ferrer) and Tammy (Chrysta Bell) sheds light on the man who was Dougie.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Big Secrets Spill Out in ‘Part 14,’ But the Truth Lies Within David Lynch’s Dreams
The two discuss the very first Blue Rose case in which FBI agents investigate two women — both who appear to be someone named Lois Duffy — in a hotel room.
- 8/15/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return” Episode 14, “Part 14.”]
“We’re like the dreamer who dreams and lives inside the dream. But who is the dreamer?”
The explicit answer to Monica Bellucci’s question from “Part 14” of “Twin Peaks: The Return” is Gordon Cole. David Lynch’s FBI director is describing a dream he had the night prior when his dream girl poses the query. He is the dreamer.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Big Secrets Spill Out in ‘Part 14,’ But the Truth Lies Within David Lynch’s Dreams
But nothing about the latest episode begs for explicit understanding, so why look for explicit answers? “Part 14” is built on dream logic, as stories are shared and information is given that cannot be trusted. Three scenes stand out for the ideas and reactions they provoke, but also for who’s provoking them. All three center around women, and one may hold a more fitting answer to Bellucci’s question.
“We’re like the dreamer who dreams and lives inside the dream. But who is the dreamer?”
The explicit answer to Monica Bellucci’s question from “Part 14” of “Twin Peaks: The Return” is Gordon Cole. David Lynch’s FBI director is describing a dream he had the night prior when his dream girl poses the query. He is the dreamer.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Big Secrets Spill Out in ‘Part 14,’ But the Truth Lies Within David Lynch’s Dreams
But nothing about the latest episode begs for explicit understanding, so why look for explicit answers? “Part 14” is built on dream logic, as stories are shared and information is given that cannot be trusted. Three scenes stand out for the ideas and reactions they provoke, but also for who’s provoking them. All three center around women, and one may hold a more fitting answer to Bellucci’s question.
- 8/14/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return” Episode 14, “Part 14.”]
Monica Bellucci solves crimes in David Lynch’s dreams, Diane is Janey-e’s half-sister, and Andy is newly enlightened after taking a trip to the other side — phew! “Part 14” certainly isn’t short on talking points, but to claim reasonable comprehension would be a long shot. But that’s Ok. Lynch’s black-and-white dream sequence foreshadowed an episode that played out just like it: Much was said, much was seen, but it’s not the literal interpretation of clues that matters: It’s learning how to believe in the impossible.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Part 13 Proves the Magic of Pie, Coffee, and an Arm-Wrestling Death Match David Lynch’s Inception
Like an inverse interpretation of the series’ more introspective dream episodes (i.e., “Part 3” and “Part 8”), this hour was filled with exposition while Lynch’s imagination ran amok. The former served as a distraction from the latter; all that...
Monica Bellucci solves crimes in David Lynch’s dreams, Diane is Janey-e’s half-sister, and Andy is newly enlightened after taking a trip to the other side — phew! “Part 14” certainly isn’t short on talking points, but to claim reasonable comprehension would be a long shot. But that’s Ok. Lynch’s black-and-white dream sequence foreshadowed an episode that played out just like it: Much was said, much was seen, but it’s not the literal interpretation of clues that matters: It’s learning how to believe in the impossible.
Read More:‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Part 13 Proves the Magic of Pie, Coffee, and an Arm-Wrestling Death Match David Lynch’s Inception
Like an inverse interpretation of the series’ more introspective dream episodes (i.e., “Part 3” and “Part 8”), this hour was filled with exposition while Lynch’s imagination ran amok. The former served as a distraction from the latter; all that...
- 8/14/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.Much of David Lynch's work is about regression, or regressiveness, about people who are most comfortable when indulging (really, hiding behind) their baser instincts. An acid-jazz saxophonist with murder on his mind might take refuge in the body and soul of a teenage delinquent (Lost Highway), or a midwestern girl who has played and lost the Hollywood game might concoct a candy-colored dream-life in which she finally attains Tinseltown stardom (Mulholland Dr.). But these escapes always prove to be traps, and cyclical ones at that. What goes around comes around. What has happened before will happen again. Even Blue Velvet's Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), finally liberated from her abusive sexual relationship with Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), "still can see blue velvet through my tears.
- 8/10/2017
- MUBI
Joe Matar Aug 7, 2017
Twin Peaks picks up steam and cues the music in its latest season 3 episode, What Story is That, Charlie?
This review contains spoilers.
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3.13 What Story Is That, Charlie?
We continue right where we left off, for better and for worse.
For a while there, every episode of Twin Peaks: The Return almost felt like a non-sequitur to the one preceding it. But Part 13 picks up directly after Part 12, even—and it’s funny to say it, but this feels like a rarity—checking back in with characters who are right where we left them one episode ago.
Thankfully, it’s faster moving than that last episode, which felt mostly like a series of long conversations in rooms and featured the reintroduction of Audrey Horne by way of an over ten-minutes scene (!!!) of her arguing with her diminutive...
Twin Peaks picks up steam and cues the music in its latest season 3 episode, What Story is That, Charlie?
This review contains spoilers.
See related Gotham season 3 episodes 21 & 22 review: Destiny Calling & Heavydirtysoul
3.13 What Story Is That, Charlie?
We continue right where we left off, for better and for worse.
For a while there, every episode of Twin Peaks: The Return almost felt like a non-sequitur to the one preceding it. But Part 13 picks up directly after Part 12, even—and it’s funny to say it, but this feels like a rarity—checking back in with characters who are right where we left them one episode ago.
Thankfully, it’s faster moving than that last episode, which felt mostly like a series of long conversations in rooms and featured the reintroduction of Audrey Horne by way of an over ten-minutes scene (!!!) of her arguing with her diminutive...
- 8/7/2017
- Den of Geek
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return,” Season 3, “Part 13” (Episode 13).]
No part of “Twin Peaks” is predictable, but the predominant theme of “Part 13” unveiled itself in a hurry: pie.
The delicious diner desert and its perfect beverage partner have been staples of David Lynch’s series since its inception, but rarely in “The Return” have we seen such intense focus on the healing power of a good slice and a few sips.
Cooper’s (Kyle MacLachlan) fixation on cherry pie, which already saved his life once, did so again (and from the same shop). A distraught Becky (Amanda Seyfried) calls her mother, Shelly (Madchen Amick), and the mere promise of pie turns her frown upside down. Later, Norma (Peggy Lipton) meets with Walter (Grant Goodeve) about her diner franchise’s performance, and she’s told the other pies aren’t as good as her own. Norma explains why — hers are made from all-natural ingredients — to which Walter responds, “Love doesn’t always turn a profit.
No part of “Twin Peaks” is predictable, but the predominant theme of “Part 13” unveiled itself in a hurry: pie.
The delicious diner desert and its perfect beverage partner have been staples of David Lynch’s series since its inception, but rarely in “The Return” have we seen such intense focus on the healing power of a good slice and a few sips.
Cooper’s (Kyle MacLachlan) fixation on cherry pie, which already saved his life once, did so again (and from the same shop). A distraught Becky (Amanda Seyfried) calls her mother, Shelly (Madchen Amick), and the mere promise of pie turns her frown upside down. Later, Norma (Peggy Lipton) meets with Walter (Grant Goodeve) about her diner franchise’s performance, and she’s told the other pies aren’t as good as her own. Norma explains why — hers are made from all-natural ingredients — to which Walter responds, “Love doesn’t always turn a profit.
- 8/7/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.It's great to be in the know. To have a moment (hopefully more than one) when the veil drops and, per that old song, the mysteries of love (of life) come clear. Part 12 of Mark Frost and David Lynch's revived Twin Peaks opens with just such a scene, as FBI Agent Tammy Preston (Chrysta Bell) is initiated into the Blue Rose Task Force by her superiors Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) and Gordon Cole (Lynch). The references Albert drops—to things like "Project Blue Book" and to people like "Chet Desmond"—will be familiar to any Peaks obsessive who has pored over the original series, the Fire Walk with Me movie, or Frost's 2016 tie-in novel The Secret History of Twin Peaks. But remember that...
- 8/1/2017
- MUBI
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.A study in contrasts. That's the best way to describe Part 11 of Mark Frost and David Lynch's revived Twin Peaks, which opens with a brief moment of doom-laden calm—three young boys playing catch happening upon the bruised and beaten but very much alive Miriam Sullivan (Sarah Jean Long)—then details, for its first half, the many ways in which the titular town, as well as the few-states-over locale of Buckhorn, South Dakota, are coming unglued. But this is dramatic incident Lynch-style, which means that the narrative rhythms are always shifting (violently, unpredictably), as if someone was continually revving a car engine into the red, but never in a calculable way.There's madness in such extremity, as there's insanity in the blood-curdling scream...
- 7/25/2017
- MUBI
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017), Season 3, Episode 11, “Part 11.”]
“Damn good” only begins to describe Part 11 of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” an episode in which a lot of pieces came together both for the series’ central mystery and within its hero’s restricted mind.
First, let’s address what’s in the box. For all the parodies and homages that reference David Fincher’s iconic scene in “Seven,” this one may take the cake– well, the pie. The long drive into the desert. The long row of telephone lines on the side of the road. A mysterious box. An unarmed man held at gunpoint. These are the same images that evoked trepidation in Fincher’s film, but Lynch created a playful tone for “Twin Peaks.”
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From the remixed version of “Viva Las Vegas” that kicks off Cooper’s...
“Damn good” only begins to describe Part 11 of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” an episode in which a lot of pieces came together both for the series’ central mystery and within its hero’s restricted mind.
First, let’s address what’s in the box. For all the parodies and homages that reference David Fincher’s iconic scene in “Seven,” this one may take the cake– well, the pie. The long drive into the desert. The long row of telephone lines on the side of the road. A mysterious box. An unarmed man held at gunpoint. These are the same images that evoked trepidation in Fincher’s film, but Lynch created a playful tone for “Twin Peaks.”
Read More‘Twin Peaks’: David Lynch’s Short Film, The Cast Reacts to Dougie, and More Highlights From Comic-Con
From the remixed version of “Viva Las Vegas” that kicks off Cooper’s...
- 7/24/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.It's worth quoting the latest (perhaps the last?) gnomic pronouncements from Margaret "The Log Lady" Lanterman (the late Catherine E. Coulson), speaking via phone to Deputy Sheriff Tommy "Hawk" Hill (Michael Horse), in full: "Hawk—electricity is humming. You hear it in the mountains and rivers. You see it dance among the seas and stars. And glowing around the moon. But in these days, the glow is dying. What will be in the darkness that remains? The Truman brothers are both true men. They are your brothers. And the others, the good ones, who have been with you. Now the circle is almost complete. Watch and listen to the dream of time and space. It all comes out now, flowing like a river. That which is and is not.
- 7/18/2017
- MUBI
Joe Matar Jul 17, 2017
More plot threads get tied together in the latest Twin Peaks episode, but Lynch doesn’t make it go down easy...
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3.10 Laura Is The One
I wasn’t really joking when I said the gentleness of last week's episode would mean that David Lynch was going to kick our asses this time around, and it seems my fears were warranted. This was another part of Twin Peaks’ return that was alternatingly terrifying, absurd, and obnoxious. That said, the terrifying bits were as gripping as ever, and there were a few hints of hope, not to mention some deeply sad stuff as well. Also, despite the irritating, draggy scenes, a lot of long-dangling plot threads got satisfyingly tied together.
Considering it’s always been a prominent feature of...
More plot threads get tied together in the latest Twin Peaks episode, but Lynch doesn’t make it go down easy...
This review contains spoilers.
See related George A Romero dies, aged 77 George A Romero and the meaning of his zombies
3.10 Laura Is The One
I wasn’t really joking when I said the gentleness of last week's episode would mean that David Lynch was going to kick our asses this time around, and it seems my fears were warranted. This was another part of Twin Peaks’ return that was alternatingly terrifying, absurd, and obnoxious. That said, the terrifying bits were as gripping as ever, and there were a few hints of hope, not to mention some deeply sad stuff as well. Also, despite the irritating, draggy scenes, a lot of long-dangling plot threads got satisfyingly tied together.
Considering it’s always been a prominent feature of...
- 7/17/2017
- Den of Geek
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.There's a brief, very beautiful moment in Part 7 of the new Twin Peaks, during the scene in which hotelier Benjamin Horne (Richard Beymer) and his secretary Beverly Paige (Ashley Judd) are investigating a strange sound emanating from the walls of the Great Northern. Ben points in the direction that he thinks the soft, soothing tone is coming from, and for a second he seems to be pointing right at the camera—past it, really…toward our world, at those of us on the other side of the fiction/fact divide. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it breach, but it lays some subtle groundwork for what follows: The aesthetically and thematically provocative Part 8 fitted the Twin Peaks mythos into our very real history of atomic destruction. And this week's...
- 7/11/2017
- MUBI
Joe Matar Jul 11, 2017
Twin Peaks sets up the second half of the limited series with a mostly coherent episode 9...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.9 This Is The Chair
I’ve read that David Lynch sees this return series as a giant film and that he’s casually dismissed cutting it into episodes as a kind of haphazard affair, simply chopping it into 18 hourly chunks. This rings semi-true. We’re halfway(!) through this limited series and still being introduced to new plotlines and characters with little to no hint of who they are or how they play (if they even do) into what we already know. On the other hand, I think Lynch is downplaying his approach to editing these. Accidental or not, individual episodes do come off feeling like coherent wholes, at least tonally. I’ve come to expect (though...
Twin Peaks sets up the second half of the limited series with a mostly coherent episode 9...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.9 This Is The Chair
I’ve read that David Lynch sees this return series as a giant film and that he’s casually dismissed cutting it into episodes as a kind of haphazard affair, simply chopping it into 18 hourly chunks. This rings semi-true. We’re halfway(!) through this limited series and still being introduced to new plotlines and characters with little to no hint of who they are or how they play (if they even do) into what we already know. On the other hand, I think Lynch is downplaying his approach to editing these. Accidental or not, individual episodes do come off feeling like coherent wholes, at least tonally. I’ve come to expect (though...
- 7/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series."Did you like that song?" the boy (Xolo Mariduena) asks the girl (Tikaeni Faircrest). His words are hesitant and tentative—tinged with naiveté, therefore open and earnest. "Yes," the girl replies, playing along with the courtship ritual. "I did like that song." Yet there's a sense in the slight pause between his question and her answer that she could say anything. That awkward dead space is filled with possibilities—positive, negative and in-between. And what excitement there is in that. This exchange comes toward the end of Part 8 of Mark Frost and David Lynch's revived Twin Peaks, though the quiet beauty of the moment is offset by the many horrors (and wonders) that precede it…and that, will indeed, follow it. It's easy...
- 6/26/2017
- MUBI
[[tmz:video id="0_anzmxc8s"]] Charlamagne tha God's got no problem with teaching people about sexual assault ... but definitely doesn't think Bill Cosby should be leading the charge. "The Breakfast Club" host chatted with us at the Mr. C hotel in Beverly Hills Saturday about Cosby wanting to hold seminars to help young people -- especially athletes -- avoid being accused of sexual assault. He's thinks it's a good idea ... except for the Cosby part. So who should be holding these sex assault chats?...
- 6/24/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.So that's how David Lynch does an info dump. First, with a cheeky, knowing scene featuring the brothers Horne: "Jerry, what's going on?" asks Ben (Richard Beymer) after his cannabis-infused sibling (David Patrick Kelly) phones him from the woods. "I think I'm high!…I don't know where I am!" Jerry screams, perhaps speaking for a good subsection of the Twin Peaks revival audience, who have, over the six prior installments, been given only glimpses of a larger picture. Narrative momentum comes in asides; the more prevalent longueurs are reserved for atmosphere and mood, for full immersion in apparent stasis.Part 7 shakes things up, following the brotherly freak-out with several story reveals that come in quick succession. But there's a niggling sense throughout all the...
- 6/20/2017
- MUBI
Joe Matar Jun 19, 2017
The latest Twin Peaks episode takes some strides towards making sense of what we already know...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.7 There's A Body All Right
This episode was almost the opposite of the last one. Part 6 showed very little interest in illuminating existing plot threads, instead introducing all manner of new madness paired with a heavy dose of disturbing imagery. Part 7 kindly takes strides toward making some sense of what we already know and only a few minorly gross things happen!
Take my use of “strides” and “some sense” with a grain of salt, though. It’s just that, with the pace of this series, getting a few small steps forward in plot feels like a giant leap. Regardless, it was refreshing and appreciated that we got some new, mostly comprehensible developments and also that a lot of it went down, for a change, in the town of Twin Peaks itself.
It’s amazing just how much David Lynch and Mark Frost appear to be dedicated to making all of Twin Peaks a cohesive whole. It was an awesome surprise that Annie Blackburn’s message to Laura Palmer, delivered in a dream in Fire Walk With Me, found its way into the missing pages of Laura’s diary, which have now been dug up by Hawk. However, despite this feeling like a reward for fans who have stuck with Twin Peaks across years and media, the opening scenes in the police station were unfortunately some of the weakest of the episode.
After the diary revelation, the show indulges in going down memory lane by having Frank Truman awkwardly call up his brother Harry and then, even more awkwardly, call up Doc Hayward on Skype. It’s like the show feels it needs to do its duty by acknowledging Harry’s existence, but we all know Michael Ontkean isn’t reprising his role, so we get these forced scenes of Robert Forster having a one-sided conversation with a dormant cell phone. I’m sad Harry’s not in the show, but I don’t know that this way of dealing with it is adding much.
Doc Hayward, I can understand more. The actor, Warren Frost (Mark Frost’s father), died during production, so this Skype appearance is likely the creators’ desire to include him in the Twin Peaks universe one last time. Though I appreciate the sentiment, the scene is a clumsy one. First, we have a conversation between Frank and the doctor about whether he knows what Skype is. Then, once on Skype, Hayward’s only contribution to the mystery is to reaffirm that Coop was acting strangely when he came out of the Black Lodge. Other than that, the two men just make corny jokes about fishing. There’s never even a justification for why this had to be a Skype call when they were already on the phone together previously. And it’s also glaringly odd that Truman doesn’t ask how the rest of Hayward’s family is doing.
I don’t mean to be cold. As mentioned, I see why this is in the show, but, unlike the Log Lady’s scene in the first episode that was both moving and plot-integral, this feels ham-fisted and largely unnecessary (though I guess the information that Evil Coop was seen in the intensive care ward could come back later).
Speaking of reaffirmation, Diane seeing the evil Mr. C doesn’t do much except confirm for the millionth time that it’s not the Cooper we all know and love. But they get away with it because, after finally meeting Diane, we were waiting to see her do something. Plus, we learned that Mr. C did something horrible to Diane that apparently soured her relationship with the entire FBI. I think it’s cool that Diane has turned out to be a surly customer. I don’t know what I expected, but it somehow feels like a subversion of it. However, I found her saying “fuck you” to everyone a bit corny. Still, Laura Dern is a great actor and her scene with Gordon after meeting with Evil Dale is perhaps the best of the episode.
Moving more plots forward, it’s cool and terrifying that the core conflict has been reinvigorated as Mr. C is now out of prison. Horror looms! Further, it was exciting to see the dwarf assassin easily taken down by Dougie/Coop, indicating to us that Coop’s FBI training is still with him. I enjoyed the new stuff we were learning so much that my heart sank a little when the episode ended. I wanted more! (I less enjoyed watching that guy sweep the Roadhouse. I rarely feel like David Lynch is stretching scenes out purely to screw with us, but in this case… come on, David.)
A stray thought: it’s incredible how instantly transporting the old Twin Peaks score is. When Andy was standing on that road and the spooky part of Laura Palmer’s theme kicked in, it was, for that instant, like we were back in the old Twin Peaks. I know I shouldn’t expect too much of the old stuff to return, but I must admit that, going forward, I hope those music cues show up more regularly.
Read Joe's review of the previous episode, Don't Die, here.
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The latest Twin Peaks episode takes some strides towards making sense of what we already know...
This review contains spoilers.
See related James Cameron's Avatar: five years on Avatar review
3.7 There's A Body All Right
This episode was almost the opposite of the last one. Part 6 showed very little interest in illuminating existing plot threads, instead introducing all manner of new madness paired with a heavy dose of disturbing imagery. Part 7 kindly takes strides toward making some sense of what we already know and only a few minorly gross things happen!
Take my use of “strides” and “some sense” with a grain of salt, though. It’s just that, with the pace of this series, getting a few small steps forward in plot feels like a giant leap. Regardless, it was refreshing and appreciated that we got some new, mostly comprehensible developments and also that a lot of it went down, for a change, in the town of Twin Peaks itself.
It’s amazing just how much David Lynch and Mark Frost appear to be dedicated to making all of Twin Peaks a cohesive whole. It was an awesome surprise that Annie Blackburn’s message to Laura Palmer, delivered in a dream in Fire Walk With Me, found its way into the missing pages of Laura’s diary, which have now been dug up by Hawk. However, despite this feeling like a reward for fans who have stuck with Twin Peaks across years and media, the opening scenes in the police station were unfortunately some of the weakest of the episode.
After the diary revelation, the show indulges in going down memory lane by having Frank Truman awkwardly call up his brother Harry and then, even more awkwardly, call up Doc Hayward on Skype. It’s like the show feels it needs to do its duty by acknowledging Harry’s existence, but we all know Michael Ontkean isn’t reprising his role, so we get these forced scenes of Robert Forster having a one-sided conversation with a dormant cell phone. I’m sad Harry’s not in the show, but I don’t know that this way of dealing with it is adding much.
Doc Hayward, I can understand more. The actor, Warren Frost (Mark Frost’s father), died during production, so this Skype appearance is likely the creators’ desire to include him in the Twin Peaks universe one last time. Though I appreciate the sentiment, the scene is a clumsy one. First, we have a conversation between Frank and the doctor about whether he knows what Skype is. Then, once on Skype, Hayward’s only contribution to the mystery is to reaffirm that Coop was acting strangely when he came out of the Black Lodge. Other than that, the two men just make corny jokes about fishing. There’s never even a justification for why this had to be a Skype call when they were already on the phone together previously. And it’s also glaringly odd that Truman doesn’t ask how the rest of Hayward’s family is doing.
I don’t mean to be cold. As mentioned, I see why this is in the show, but, unlike the Log Lady’s scene in the first episode that was both moving and plot-integral, this feels ham-fisted and largely unnecessary (though I guess the information that Evil Coop was seen in the intensive care ward could come back later).
Speaking of reaffirmation, Diane seeing the evil Mr. C doesn’t do much except confirm for the millionth time that it’s not the Cooper we all know and love. But they get away with it because, after finally meeting Diane, we were waiting to see her do something. Plus, we learned that Mr. C did something horrible to Diane that apparently soured her relationship with the entire FBI. I think it’s cool that Diane has turned out to be a surly customer. I don’t know what I expected, but it somehow feels like a subversion of it. However, I found her saying “fuck you” to everyone a bit corny. Still, Laura Dern is a great actor and her scene with Gordon after meeting with Evil Dale is perhaps the best of the episode.
Moving more plots forward, it’s cool and terrifying that the core conflict has been reinvigorated as Mr. C is now out of prison. Horror looms! Further, it was exciting to see the dwarf assassin easily taken down by Dougie/Coop, indicating to us that Coop’s FBI training is still with him. I enjoyed the new stuff we were learning so much that my heart sank a little when the episode ended. I wanted more! (I less enjoyed watching that guy sweep the Roadhouse. I rarely feel like David Lynch is stretching scenes out purely to screw with us, but in this case… come on, David.)
A stray thought: it’s incredible how instantly transporting the old Twin Peaks score is. When Andy was standing on that road and the spooky part of Laura Palmer’s theme kicked in, it was, for that instant, like we were back in the old Twin Peaks. I know I shouldn’t expect too much of the old stuff to return, but I must admit that, going forward, I hope those music cues show up more regularly.
Read Joe's review of the previous episode, Don't Die, here.
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- 6/19/2017
- Den of Geek
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.A man walks into a bar—after cursing out Gene Kelly (because most of the time we don't feel like singin' in the rain). The bar, by the way, is named "Max Von's," surely after Erich von Stroheim's rabidly devoted butler Max von Mayerling from Sunset Blvd (1950). Of his employer, silent-film diva Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), Max once said, "Madame is the greatest star of them all." No more proper locale, then, for a star entrance: "Diane," says FBI forensics specialist Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) to a platinum blond beauty nursing martini and cigarette. Around turns Diane Evans, the heretofore unseen confidante of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), and played (of course, how could there be any doubt?) by Laura Dern.
- 6/15/2017
- MUBI
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.The key image in Part 5 of the revived Twin Peaks is of a woman in ecstasy. Recall, however, the subtitle that series co-creator/director David Lynch appended to his thorny 2006 masterpiece Inland Empire: "A Woman in Trouble." The line separating rapture and anguish is a blurry one, especially for Lynch's ladies, who are as likely to end up exquisitely chiseled corpses (the ubiquitous Laura Palmer; Part 2's doomed henchwoman Darya) as they are world-weary survivors. For the moment, let's focus on Rebecca "Becky" Burnett (Amanda Seyfried), daughter of Rr Diner waitress Shelly Johnson (Mädchen Amick), though Becky's last name—taken from ne'er-do-well husband Steven Burnett (Caleb Landry Jones)—obscures the identity of her father. (Dana Ashbrook's now-law-abiding Bobby Briggs is the most likely candidate,...
- 6/6/2017
- MUBI
From the first glimpse of that weird bird that heralds the arrival of “Twin Peaks,” the television series plunged viewers into the palm of David Lynch’s hand. It’s a weird and wondrous place to be, which makes it prime fodder for fan theories. If ever a show’s symbology deserved an IMDb page, this would be it.
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Thanks to Showtime, Lynch has free rein to complete the “Twin Peaks” story arc, a process that has him referencing his own “Lost Highway,” “Eraserhead,” and, most of all, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.” Of course, it’s Lynch so all of this effectively clarifies nothing — but nature hates a vacuum, and that’s why we have ample fan theories to close the gap.
So, here are six of the best fan theories for the revival series’ first four episodes,...
Read More: ‘Twin Peaks’: Why It Shouldn’t Have Changed Its Opening Titles
Thanks to Showtime, Lynch has free rein to complete the “Twin Peaks” story arc, a process that has him referencing his own “Lost Highway,” “Eraserhead,” and, most of all, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.” Of course, it’s Lynch so all of this effectively clarifies nothing — but nature hates a vacuum, and that’s why we have ample fan theories to close the gap.
So, here are six of the best fan theories for the revival series’ first four episodes,...
- 6/2/2017
- by Jamie Righetti
- Indiewire
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.What's an FBI Special Agent to do after being locked away for 25 years in unearthly purgatory? Episodes three and four of Mark Frost and David Lynch's revived Twin Peaks, which aired on Showtime this past Sunday in a two-hour block (aside from September's two-part finale, it's all single, hour-long episodes from hereon out), follow our besuited, Black Lodge-incarcerated hero Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) as he reintegrates into modern terrestrial society. So this is basically Peaks doing Rectify, just with a sterile death row replaced by an infernal hellscape out of Clive Barker. Or David Lynch, really. What's becoming more and more evident as the new Peaks progresses is that the series is, in large part, a repository for Lynch's subconscious, past and present.
- 5/30/2017
- MUBI
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Twin Peaks recap.
Do you think, way back when Kyle McLachlan signed on to play Twin Peaks‘ buttoned-up Agent Dale Cooper, he could’ve imagined a time when the most interesting thing he’d do in an entire episode would be a spit take?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Because it’s a David Lynchian spittake, it’s elevated to high art. The spittake has meaning that I just don’t understand. It’s a callback to Season 1, when Coop & Co. all were standing outside by the chalkboard outside. All will be revealed.
Do you think, way back when Kyle McLachlan signed on to play Twin Peaks‘ buttoned-up Agent Dale Cooper, he could’ve imagined a time when the most interesting thing he’d do in an entire episode would be a spit take?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Because it’s a David Lynchian spittake, it’s elevated to high art. The spittake has meaning that I just don’t understand. It’s a callback to Season 1, when Coop & Co. all were standing outside by the chalkboard outside. All will be revealed.
- 5/25/2017
- TVLine.com
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from the first four episodes of Showtime’s “Twin Peaks.”]
Much is made of the joy that pie and donuts and coffee bring to the characters on “Twin Peaks.” In the original series, Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) went into raptures over the “damn fine coffee” at the Great Northern Hotel’s restaurant and declared the cherry pie at the Double R Diner was so good it could “kill ya.”
Read More: ‘Twin Peaks’: A Guide to Returned Characters and How They’re Helping Cooper – Parts 1 & 2
Cooper’s obsession with the town’s cuisine could be interpreted as an appreciation of life’s simple pleasures or merely as an extension of series co-creator David Lynch’s love of food. After all, the director notoriously once used a cow as part of an Oscar campaign stunt because without milk, “Inland Empire” would never have been made, since Lynch had eaten a lot of cheese while making the film. And...
Much is made of the joy that pie and donuts and coffee bring to the characters on “Twin Peaks.” In the original series, Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) went into raptures over the “damn fine coffee” at the Great Northern Hotel’s restaurant and declared the cherry pie at the Double R Diner was so good it could “kill ya.”
Read More: ‘Twin Peaks’: A Guide to Returned Characters and How They’re Helping Cooper – Parts 1 & 2
Cooper’s obsession with the town’s cuisine could be interpreted as an appreciation of life’s simple pleasures or merely as an extension of series co-creator David Lynch’s love of food. After all, the director notoriously once used a cow as part of an Oscar campaign stunt because without milk, “Inland Empire” would never have been made, since Lynch had eaten a lot of cheese while making the film. And...
- 5/24/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
One of the most memorable mothers of late on the smallscreen is played by a man — Louie Anderson. Another Louis, Mr. C.K., urged fellow Baskets producers Zach Galifianakis and Jonathan Krisel to contact Anderson for the role of Christine Baskets based on Louie’s lifetime of stand-up and published memoirs. Louie’s character Christine of FX’s noir comedy is a triumph of drawing out the little things in family life for a big effect. It really shows no matter how good the writers are, the person saying the lines matters so very much to pulling off an award-winning role like Christine....read more...
- 3/22/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
John Carpenter, who during a Q&A several years ago called Halloween remake director Rob Zombie a "piece of shit," wants everyone to know that he's "buried the hatchet" with the rocker-turned-filmmaker (nice word choice, Mr. C) and none of us have to talk or worry about it any longer. From Twitter: To everyone fascinated with the Jc/Rz feud, old news. We spoke Sunday, we buried the hatchet. Let's move on. — John Carpenter (@TheHorrorMaster) September 28, 2016 Done.
- 9/28/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
When Tara Lipinski walks down the aisle next year, she'll have one of the most important men in her life by her side - her Bff Johnny Weir. On Monday, Weir shared a beautiful snap of a custom mug Lipinski had made for him to ask him to be her "bridesman." "When @taralipinski asks you to be her bridesmaid, you say yes. Can't wait to go on this amazing journey with you lovebug. And yes, that's totally us on the mug," he captioned the photo. When @taralipinski asks you to be her bridesman, you say yes. Can't wait to go...
- 9/20/2016
- by Melody Chiu, @chiumelo
- PEOPLE.com
When Tara Lipinski walks down the aisle next year, she'll have one of the most important men in her life by her side - her Bff Johnny Weir. On Monday, Weir shared a beautiful snap of a custom mug Lipinski had made for him to ask him to be her "bridesman." "When @taralipinski asks you to be her bridesmaid, you say yes. Can't wait to go on this amazing journey with you lovebug. And yes, that's totally us on the mug," he captioned the photo. When @taralipinski asks you to be her bridesman, you say yes. Can't wait to go...
- 9/20/2016
- by Melody Chiu, @chiumelo
- PEOPLE.com
Tara Lipinski is one step closer to saying "I do!" The former Olympic figure skater, 33, and her husband-to-be, Fox Sports producer Todd Kapostasy, celebrated their engagement party with family and friends at Mr. C Beverly Hills, according to her Instagram. "Todd and I have been living up the engaged life but now to celebrate with all of our friends and family at our engagement party it finally feels so real and official!" Lipinski wrote. She continued, "I say this all the time but you make me happier than I've ever been...here's to forever!" A photo posted by Tara Lipinski...
- 5/22/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
Tara Lipinski is one step closer to saying "I do!" The former Olympic figure skater, 33, and her husband-to-be, Fox Sports producer Todd Kapostasy, celebrated their engagement party with family and friends at Mr. C Beverly Hills, according to her Instagram. "Todd and I have been living up the engaged life but now to celebrate with all of our friends and family at our engagement party it finally feels so real and official!" Lipinski wrote. She continued, "I say this all the time but you make me happier than I've ever been...here's to forever!" A photo posted by Tara Lipinski...
- 5/22/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
This guide to Oscar parties will be updated on an ongoing basis until the week of the big event. It is a good thing 2016 is a leap year. The bleary morning after the Oscars, the quadrennial February 29, will be a recovery day after nominees, their teams, partners, and co-celebrants dry out after a week spent celebrating the Academy Awards. Before and after the Chris Rock-hosted telecast on February 28, industry festivities will spread from Hollywood to the beach. Here is TheWrap’s navigational guide. Wednesday, February 24 Stevie Wonder Performs at Global Green Mr. C Beverly Hills Wednesday, February 24 Two guys who will both.
- 2/6/2016
- by Mikey Glazer
- The Wrap
Chicago – Thomas Haden Church has the recognizable name, and a long career of character roles in comedy and drama. His laid-back persona gets a bit more intense as a conflicted father in the new film “Max,” about a military dog who comes home to an uncertain future with a grieving family.
What may look like a standard family film is actually an exploration of the mourning and the healing process, and the waste of war. Church is Ray Wincott, an early 1990s “Desert Storm” veteran, who sees his son Kyle (Robbie Arnell) follow in his Marine Corp footsteps to the Afghanistan conflict. One of the Kyle’s duties is to care for Max, a German Shepard who sniffs out bombs in the region. When Kyle is killed in action, Max is sent back to the Wincott family to get over his companion’s demise, but will only respond to Ray’s other son,...
What may look like a standard family film is actually an exploration of the mourning and the healing process, and the waste of war. Church is Ray Wincott, an early 1990s “Desert Storm” veteran, who sees his son Kyle (Robbie Arnell) follow in his Marine Corp footsteps to the Afghanistan conflict. One of the Kyle’s duties is to care for Max, a German Shepard who sniffs out bombs in the region. When Kyle is killed in action, Max is sent back to the Wincott family to get over his companion’s demise, but will only respond to Ray’s other son,...
- 6/25/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sofia Vergara was honored with the 2,551st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, and she was surrounded by family and friends for the special occasion. A whole group of loved ones traveled from Colombia to witness the ceremony, which was also attended by Sofia's son, Manolo, her boyfriend, Joe Manganiello, and her Modern Family costars Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen, and Eric Stonestreet. Sofia, who is the first Colombian actress to receive a star, celebrated the new plaque with a big bash at Mr. C Beverly Hills' Starlight Ballroom where she and Joe danced to traditional music and guests indulged in a spread of sweets, including a star-shaped cake. Scroll through to see Sofia's exciting day as she chronicled it on Instagram. Mi estrellita is almost ready for tomorrow!!!! A photo posted by Sofia Vergara (@sofiavergara) on May 6, 2015 at 8:14am Pdt The Colombian crew taking off to La!
- 5/8/2015
- by Lauren-Turner
- Popsugar.com
Is it ever too late to change directions? To mend broken fences, even build new ones? These are the main themes and ideas in the new release that’s being sold as a cutesy look at a mature “quirky” character, a chance to watch some screen vets grabbing some laughs at the expense of their Aarp status. But it goes much deeper than that. The past is not so easily erased and no “free passes” are issued. Oddly something from the long ago past is the catalyst for the title character’s turn-around. Kudos for the film makers for admitting in the post-opening title card that this isn’t a strictly adhered “inspired by true events” work. This gives them much more license for that humor provided by a screen icon now in his fifth decade of stardom. That’s reason enough to make the movie’s title his character’s name,...
- 4/3/2015
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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