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Tuesday May 22, 2018
David Lynch - Wild at Heart
Tuesday May 22, 2018
Tuesday May 22, 2018
Fasten your seatbelts, we're goin' for a ride!
1990s Wild at Heart is an adaptation, yes, but it's filled with Lynchian quirkiness and oddities and the unshakable sensation that nothing you see is quite as it seems. While neither of us can call this our favourite Lynch film, we tried our best to see past the goofy madness and over-the-top qualities to get to the (wild) heart of it all...
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem DafoeDirected by: David LynchWritten by: Barry Gifford (novel), David Lynch (screenplay)Produced by: Michael Kuhn
Notes:
Auteur Theory: 'Wild at Heart' Deleted Scenes Somewhere Over The Rainbow – How Lynch made Wild At Heart his own Deleted Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-sESAtq5o&app=desktop
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Lynch and Frost - On The Air
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Let's take it back.
Way back.
It's the Summer of 1992. The viewing public had long since learned the answer to the question of "Who Killed Laura Palmer?"; Twin Peaks had been off the air for a year, and all hope for a revival and answers to the plethora of questions raised by the Season 2 finale had been thoroughly and hopelessly dashed (or piqued even further) by Fire Walk With Me.
For some bewildering reason, the suits at ABC entrusted Lynch and Frost to come up with another TV show. A sitcom. Based on the mid-century variety shows that had long gone out of favour, and the hilarious hijinks going on backstage at the fictional Zoblotnick Broadcasting Company. Predating 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip by a good dozen or more years, On the Air was a baffling collection of 7 episodes (3 of which aired between late June/early July on ABC before the show was cancelled).
It's surreal. It's bizarre. It's utterly weirdly fantastic. And it's the subject of this week's Bickering Peaks. (Recorded in early 2017, re-released with a new intro. We hope you enjoy!)