Funny to read this thread now! I guess this would have been around the time lynch and frost first started talking about a revival?

I'm afraid I've only seen it on YouTube as I don't have a blu-ray player, but those scenes had subs in the version I watched. Weirdly, when I saw FWWM in the cinema recently there were no subs in the entire film, so the lengthy pink room scene had pretty much unintelligible dialogue throughout, and ...

This is the best thread on this board.

btw:

Robert Engels: "Judy - the name is [from] my sister-in-law. I think that is where it came from. The Thing behind Judy has to do with where David Bowie came from..."

obtuse is about right but I wouldn't assume deliberate tbh

Like most here I don't have a problem with the concept of Earle, and when he was still unseen they did a good job setting up this dark shadow in cooper's past. The execution was awful, though - as people have said, this is a show that has had BOB, the Laura/Maddy murders, and genuinely sinister char...

Parts of this episode are among the best bits of TP; love how the director imbues so many scenes with this eerie dread, this wrongness . Unfortunately, a couple of things really bug me: as ever, the prolix Windom Earle, about as "menacing" as Dick Tremayne; and even more irritatingly, a fu...

the abuse is def there in the series (as early as the "WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS HOUSE" stuff in s1) but the film really spells it out, doesn't let you look away I almost mentioned this in my previous post, but there is a 1994 film directed by Atom Egoyan called Exotica that shares simila...

In a similar vein to the Donna's-quick-recovery thing upthread: in the (otherwise flawless) finale, Norma is shown at the beginning blissfully dancing and making goo-goo eyes at Ed - all very nice, but shouldn't she be at least slightly concerned by the fact that she has just seen her sister abduct...

yeah, or another tricky example would be the character of Leo. He is a figure of fun, arguably you are supposed to find him funny and absurd, but at the same time his scenes are really nasty depictions of domestic violence. The audience in my screening laughed at "this is where we LIVE, Shelley...

Similarly, when I watched Inland Empire on MUBI, there were no subtitle for the Polish scenes, which I assumed was a deliberate aesthetic decision on lynch's part. To this day I have no idea what they were talking about! Still adored the film tho.

yeah. I know this sounds douchey - who am I to dictate how ppl respond to art? - but I can't help being annoyed/contemptuous when ppl laugh at anything incongruous orweird, like humour is their only frame of reference for why a filmmaker would be surreal. It makes me think "this is prob not the...

I think the other area where FWWM suffers as a standalone film is Cooper. If he had been part of the Deer Meadow sequences it could still work as its own thing (albeit a pretty unconventional "own thing", structurally speaking). But when we ONLY see him in Philadelphia and then Laura's dr...

We see BOB's face laughing (in the same lightning as the monkey that whispers Judy) as Jeffries is zapped back to Buenos Aires. Why is BOB teleporting him to Philadelphia and back? I noticed that Argentinian man fearfully asks, “Are you the man?" to Philip and then the next scene has Mike Nels...

like no amount of mickey finn'd milk and white horses accounts for the hand-washing scene