"No more blue tomorrows" – MovieJawn remembers David Lynch
As a way of tribute, we at MovieJawn offer our own creativity as a memorial to this beautiful dreamer.
Read MoreA Tour Through 10 David Bowie Movies
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
The upcoming release of David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream may prompt those who aren’t that familiar with David Bowie – The Actor – to want to explore some of his film roles. Fear not, for we at MovieJawn have all you pretty things covered.
Twin Peaks: The Return - Episode 12
by Francis Friel
“Let’s Rock.”
- seen by Cooper scrawled on the windshield of a car, 1988
- The Man From Another Place, 1989
- Diane Evans, 2017
We need to talk about Evans. Seriously. Something is drastically wrong here. Not only is she still communicating with someone (Mr. C? Jeffries?), but in Part 12 she gets officially deputized into the Blue Rose Task Force. Her response: “Let’s rock.” But it’s the way she says it that’s interesting.
Read MoreTwin Peaks: The Return - Episodes 10 & 11
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
In honor of the RR Diner almost turning into a bullet festival this week, let’s take these episodes point by point.
Read MoreBehold a Pale Horse: Twin Peaks The Return - Episodes 8 & 9
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
“Through the darkness of future’s past, the magician longs to see
One chants out between two worlds: Fire walk with me.”
“This is the water and this is the well
Drink full and descend
The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.”
As much as it’s been said that Part 8 was Lynch’s “Fuck you” to critics or anyone attempting to describe or break down just what exactly went on during this episode, the truth is that it’s actually pretty straightforward. Only a few things really “happen” on screen, and all of them are directly tied to existing Twin Peaks mythology and Lynch’s own obsessions stretching all the way back to his childhood.
Read More“Trouble Til The Robins Come”: Lucasfilm, Marvel, Lynch, and The Serialization Issue
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Right up front, I’ll tell you the truth. This is not really a review of Twin Peaks. I will touch on Episode 7 at the end, but my agenda here is different that usual. This is about storytelling. It’s about all the ways modern serialization fails to live up to its own standards, and how Twin Peaks: The Return is absolutely just fucking crushing it week after week.
Read MoreTwin Peaks: The Return - Episode 6
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist and Hanna Lesky
This episode was the first that seemed to perfectly balance the dark and moody aspects with the tightly-structured narrative momentum of Season One. I think the biggest misconception about Twin Peaks is that Frost is the structure and character guy, while Lynch picks up the thematic and atmospheric side of things. While this is largely true, and is the reason they got together in the first place, it’s a fallacy that Lynch is the “weird” one. He wouldn’t be where he is today if he was just a cult underground director making one Eraserhead after another (and that movie is as tightly plotted and executed as a film of its kind can really be). His films always follow their own internal logic, and operate on a level of cinematic storytelling that is emotionally probing and feel almost like epic poems. One thing leads to another, then that thing follows a new thread, leads over here, over there, until it may even circle around to the beginning again, but never forget where they started and never (or rarely) feel like work lacking focus or a sure hand behind the camera. And Frost is a wacko. Have you seen Hill Street Blues?
Read MoreTwin Peaks: The Return - Episode 5
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
“It’s not easy being green.”
Okay. So. That dead body in South Dakota. We still aren’t getting any textual evidence that it’s Major Briggs, despite the entire internet insisting that it must be him. We aren’t getting much from this storyline at all right now, really, but I open with it because what we do get is interesting.
Read MoreTwin Peaks: The Return. Episodes 1 - 4
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Meanwhile, 25 years later...
In the lead-up to the third season of Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, a lot of behind-the-scenes intrigue surrounded the production. Lynch, throughout the years, announcing that the project was “dead as a doornail”; Showtime swooping in and acquiring the rights to the title and characters (they are co-ventured with CBS, which has owned the distro rights for years); Frost and Lynch telling the world that the series would be back, as a limited run; Lynch saying he’ll direct every episode, then demanding more money for the production budget, Showtime balking, and Lynch saying “it’s do or die time.” Lynch threatened to quit the project, then actually quit the project, then returned once his demands were met; Michael Anderson’s bizarre falling-out with Lynch, following accusations made on social media that the plot of Twin Peaks was maybe not so fictional after all (specifically, he accused Lynch of sexually abusing his own daughter, director Jennifer Lynch, which Jennifer immediately denied. He also alleged that the director has murdered people. David has made no statements whatsoever on the subject); Frost publishing The Secret History of Twin Peaks, a HUGE DEAL that everyone I know was excited about when it arrived on their doorsteps, yet no one talks about anymore; the deaths of many actors involved with the project, some years past, some very recently (some even died during production); and finally, the episode count expanding from the originally announced nine episodes to a stunning EIGHTEEN full hours of this thing.
Read MoreCan't Care - Week of April 25, 2016
Welcome to this week’s installment of Can’t Care, Moviejawn’s weekly roundup of all the entertainment news we just can’t care about.
Rosalie Kicks!, Old Sport
Listen, I know the suspense has almost darn near killed you guys but now we can all have a sigh of relief: Elf has his next movie lined up. Phew! you guys have no idea how many winks I have lost, rocking back n' forth waiting to hear about the latest Elf project.
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