The coolest part about Fire Walk With Me is that it spends around 20 minutes with Chris Isaak and Kiefer Sutherland having a wacky adventure in a white trash town before it turns into the single most horrifying film of all time
impressive enough for everyone you’ve worked with to speak of you with respect & reverence but it’s really something special for everyone you’ve worked with to speak of you as a friend
Chris Isaak's letter to David Lynch:
"I always had fun working with David. He was an amazing guy. I really liked him a lot. I think I’m gonna always miss him. Nobody like him" (Photo: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
The only reason there’s any mystery at all is because Lynch and Frost prey on our willing to accept images of the family unit at face value, not to mention our unwillingness to look directly at grief. We fool ourselves into the mystery
Dern obviously a regular for Lynch but casting her as Diane was such a masterstroke. Immediately creates a whole history you can glean just metatextually
Fucking pisses me off seeing a transphobe try to adopt Lynch. You can debate a lot of his politics but David Lynch very explicitly was an advocate for trans rights
Twin Peaks season 3 is the only "reboot" ever made that bothered to address the awkward questions of nostalgia, age, and death that other reboots attempt to sidestep: you can't go home again, Lynch insists, and it's insane that you think you should
David Lynch - A huge and sad loss. A remarkably unique and very talented filmmaker. It was such a truly great pleasure to work with him. If his name was in the credits, you knew the film was really worth seeing. I will miss him.
(1) Hard for me to find the words to express the loss of, yes, a masterful genius but more importantly a simply wonderful guy. David Lynch was my mentor. How lucky was I? He was also my dear friend. Always there for a random checkin or life-changing advice. He was my north star…