TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full, and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within.
Films in this Program
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minues
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
David Lynch
120 minutes
The premiere of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on Showtime in 2017 was a moment of anticipation—and some trepidation—for admirers of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s two-season cult series. Was it going to be a return to form of the show’s first season on ABC, the Lynch-directed finale episodes, and the terrifying deathwatch that was 1992’s prequel Fire Walk with Me? Or would there be more of the dead-end subplots and general sense of diminishing returns that marred swaths of season two? The answer, as it happened, was neither: The third series was an all-of-a-piece Gesamtkunstwerk, totally disinterested in playing games of “fan service,” impossible to anticipate from one episode to the next, a devastating meditation on death and aging, and perhaps the apotheosis of Lynch’s genius for blighted Americana and far-out spiritual exploration. Lynch and Frost thought of the work as a continuing movie and, not ones to second guess them, we’re playing the whole thing on the big screen, in all its baleful and beautiful splendor.
Stay after the screening for a discussion lead by UW Cinema and Media Studies instructor and graduate student Anna Parkhurst!
Stay after the screening for a discussion lead by UW Cinema and Media Studies instructor and graduate student Anna Parkhurst!
