Remember that episode of Twin Peaks: The Return that sort of established an origin story for all of the show’s unhinged weirdness, with several sustained minutes of exposition-free black-and-white footage of an atomic bomb test followed by what seemed to be a depiction of otherwordly evil being birthed into our…
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David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune doesn’t have nearly as many fans as the weirdo filmmaker’s other flicks, but his Kyle MacLachlan-starring take has its fans (like us). Among them, apparently, is Call Me By Your Name star and Hollywood darling Timothée Chalamet, who’s signed on to star as hero Paul…
There are probably more eloquent ways to say it, but the fact that Kyle MacLachlan didn’t get an Emmy nomination for his performance in Twin Peaks: The Return absolutely sucks. Over the course of 18 episodes, MacLachlan embodied three distinctly different characters and delivered performances that ranged from…
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David Lynch famously hates having to explain himself, preferring instead to let some confounding nonsense on Twin Peaks or in his movies stand on its own, but that was before he came up against the wall of mindlessness that is Donald Trump. Recently, Lynch offered an ill-conceived and easily misunderstood comment on…
In what has to be the stupidest celebrity feud of the second half of June 2018, Jimmy Fallon and Donald Trump are still fighting over whether or not Fallon should have apologized for touching Trump’s hair back in 2016. That is a real and factual sentence about the time in which we live. What began as a simple mea…
David Lynch has built his career on bizarre films and TV shows that simultaneously become more meaningful and more confounding as you dive in deeper, but it seems like his current political leanings are annoyingly familiar. Speaking with The Guardian (via Deadline), Lynch says he voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016…
David Lynch loves making stuff. Movies are cool, but he’d much rather talk to you about the table he’s building. Lynch has also released his own line of coffee, collaborated on Twin Peaks-themed beer and skateboards, and created his own festival. His latest endeavor? T-shirts, which is wild because it’s hard to…
“It’s impossible to really tell the story of somebody’s life, and the most we can hope to convey here is a very abstract ‘Rosebud,’” David Lynch writes near the very end of Room To Dream, marveling at the failure of the preceding 500 pages to truly capture him. This is the inevitable upshot of all biographies, of…
Stranger Things and Hellboy star David Harbour seems like a pretty cool guy; he does funny commercials, he helps kids take senior photos, he’s apparently happy to let Twitter retweets dictate every aspect of his day-to-day life. But a dark question lurks beneath all of Harbour’s charming antics: Does he act handsome …
Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.
David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption, an annual event benefitting the Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director’s quasi-New Age David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (specifically, it encourages the practice of transcendental meditation, which Lynch believes is essential to creativity…
To be a David Lynch fan is to have patience. His more abstract films treat narrative like a piece of Play-Doh, twisting it around into different shapes while tearing off little bits that, at one point, seemed integral to the overall structure. Last summer’s Twin Peaks: The Return—which premiered a year ago today—was…
Although she acted for many years, on both stage and screen, Catherine E. Coulson—who died in 2015, just days after filming her final scenes for the revived Twin Peaks— was best known for her association with director David Lynch. The two met on the set of Lynch’s first film, Eraserhead, where Coulson—then married to…
David Lynch’s reticence toward interviews is famous. He’s always refused to provide any explanation or analysis of his films, even as those same films send audiences scrambling for answers in their wake. Much has been made of this over the years. If you’re a fan of David Lynch’s work, you’ve just come to enjoy…
Anyone who’s read an interview with David Lynch knows that he’d pretty much love to talk about anything but his films. Despite being one of the greatest filmmakers of this generation, the man is also a prolific painter, musician, and woodworker, as well as a distributor of some damn fine coffee and beer. It’s not too…
The following contains real, canonical spoilers for Twin Peaks: The Return and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier, both in the sense that it describes what happened in the revival and in the sense that it will also explain what happened. Like, for real. If you’d rather be Dougie Jones and remain blissfully…
Twin Peaks: The Return ended with an existential cry of anguish, the voice of Laura Palmer echoing into the void of an uncertain but potentially eternal purgatory outside of time. Who wouldn’t want that sensation canned and provided to you in drinkable form?
Harry Dean Stanton’s death not even two weeks ago can’t exactly be called unexpected, given that he was 91 years old. Still, it’s almost as if he deliberately timed it to coincide with the release of Lucky, a film expressly about coming to terms with the prospect that you will soon no longer exist. The directorial…
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