1989 ‘Twin Peaks: Northwest Passage’ Directed by David Lynch
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)
Kyle MacLachlan Michael Ontkean Mädchen Amick Dana Ashbrook Richard Beymer Lara Flynn Boyle Sherilyn Fenn Warren Frost Peggy Lipton James Marshall Everett McGill Jack Nance Ray Wise Joan Chen Piper Laurie Sheryl Lee Wendy Robie Russ Tamblyn Eric DaRe Mary Jo Deschanel Harry Goaz Gary Hershberger Michael Horse Grace Zabriskie Troy Evans John Boylan Rodney Harvey Robert Davenport Jan D'Arcy Show All…
Twin Peaks: Pilot, Northwest Passage, Twin Peaks: International Pilot
me, running as fast as i can: "i appreciate your style, i just don't get it! please, leave me alone!"
david lynch, galloping after me and playing a trumpet: "negativity is the enemy of creativity"
its so funny when people call this show "weird" or "terrifying" when its literally just a documentary on what it's like to live here in washington state + the kind of people you meet
me: mr. lynch... please... what's going on in your show??
david lynch: *shrugs* who can never be sure?
one of the most empathetic works of art i've ever experienced, focuses on the grief and emotional responses of everyone who knew laura, their combined grief and brief connection over the death of someone they cared about is tragically beautiful and utterly devastating. the little things are what the people who loved her remember, the sounds her feet made when wandering around and the feeling that she provided every room with disappearing. the stairs in her home just don't seem the same anymore
[season 1 + 2]
"the police didn't love laura, nobody loved laura but us." don't have much to add that i didn't say on my first watch but still absolutely taken with how frost and lynch so vividly depict the strangeness of loss; the messy, contradictory feelings in its wake that can appear absurd or surreal, especially when grafted onto the simplicity of melodrama. interesting too on rewatch to catch more of the groundwork laid out in both the sick, impulsive underbelly of greed and abuse that the town's surface pretends doesn't exist and the more otherwordly abstract/horror elements (mostly deployed here as a yin/yang, good/evil thing) that would ultimately become Fire Walk With Me and The Return's more complex exploration of the arrogance of even well-meaning people and complete uselessness of law enforcement in a world built around swallowing and chewing up women for work and pleasure.
it was a little over two years ago.
i was driving on the pacific coast highway, one of my favorite places to drive. it was a sunny and beautiful day. i was very happy.
i got a call from claire. that was odd. i remember thinking to myself, “she’s calling, that’s strange.” i answered the phone and she asked me what i was doing. she sounded upset. i said, “i’m driving, is everything okay?” she told me no, everything wasn’t okay and that i should pull over as soon as possible and call her back. knowing it was going to be serious i said okay and hung up. but even before i had the chance to pull over and call her back, i knew that shelby was dead. my best friend was dead.
lynch knows this feeling. so does every character in twin peaks that’s close to laura. before they really know she’s dead, they know.
