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I post a good deal about the arts, & about David Lynch / Twin Peaks. (Pic: “Gray and Gold,” John Rogers Cox.)

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@amberveils really good!

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@choppingwoodpod https://t.co/No2FYP7gZM

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The double Dern Double:
TWIN PEAKS Part 18 (2017) x
INLAND EMPIRE (2006)

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@dreampunkLA Lower level of PAFA, Philadelphia.

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Seeing some really sick art today.

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@JacquesDemyfan Leaving everything else aside I'll note that the idea Lynch didn't "incorporate[] ideas improvised on set a great deal" during the filming of ERASERHEAD is ridiculous. (Tho, throughout his filming career, "improvise" is a word he detested. It's more that he was open to rewrites.)

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The posts on here minimizing the artistry of Lynch's writing call to mind Paul Schrader's story of being asked by De Laurentiis to rewrite Lynch's then-unfilmed BLUE VELVET script & replying it was "one of the best scripts I’d ever read... there was no way I could improve it."

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DAVID LYNCH’s daughter, Jennifer, says his UNRECORDED NIGHT script, which was supposed to be his final project, will be published soon

https://t.co/TXd6pIgUBy

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Also, Lynch only read Kafka in translation; i.e., another writer’s reinterpretation of every word. Of an unfinished work, to boot.
And it still deeply affected him!

Who knows how many a published Lynch script might deeply move, even absent his sui generis audiovisual language.

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Kafka in 1924, dying, asked Max Brod to burn his uncompleted works, like The Trial. Yet Brod published them.
David Lynch, 62 yrs later: "The one artist that I feel could be my brother... is Franz Kafka.... I'd like to direct a movie of The Trial."
Uncompleted works have merit.

[Dear Thommy 💘 @thom_weights]

You know what, I'm going to go so far as to say they SHOULDN'T do this. He's gone, it never happened, leave it be.

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Note that Lynch identified *a writer* as the single person that he felt could be his artistic brother. Not someone who worked w/ visuals or sounds.
Also, the screenplay for UNRECORDED NIGHT was completed, & it's the people who knew him best that are making a publication decision.

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@aperfectstrange The script was completed, per Sabrina. Of course, the script is 1 part of an uncompleted film, which is other people's point (& also, Lynch always made changes while filming).
The deciding q to me is whether the script has artistic merit (obvs yes), not whether it's "completed."

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@PetreRaleigh Lynch’s works need to be seen as part of an audio-visual filmmaking tradition, but they also should be seen as part of a writing tradition that engages with and builds upon ideas of abstraction, allegory, psychodrama, & other concepts, all of which start with the screenplays.

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@PetreRaleigh The answer is obviously yes! And I think it’s very dismissive of screenwriting as an artistic practice and trivializing of Lynch’s work as a writer and conceptualist to suggest it isn’t more than a curiosity absent the rest of the filmmaking process.

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Jen Lynch recently affirmed that UNRECORDED NIGHT's scripts "are likely to be published by myself and my siblings as a way to offer what could not be realized, to those who would have loved it.... we are great fans of our father’s work, and wish to see it shared and celebrated."

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David Lynch's producer Sabrina Sutherland has revealed that his final work, the 20-25 episode UNRECORDED NIGHT, was set to star Toby Jones, son of his longtime collaborator Freddie Jones. Lynch passed away shortly before he was set to meet w/ Netflix about resuming pre-production

[David Lynch @DAVID_LYNCH]

Dear Twitter Friends, I loved, loved, loved Freddie Jones. Man-o-man will he be missed.

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First reported by Boston Hassle (see https://t.co/DcbxEv9tso).
Sabrina has also said Lynch wrote NIGHT by going "through all of his old writing... he took things that had already been written and kind of combined them, while also writing new stuff" (per https://t.co/5iIPZeJLuF).

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Hopefully the script will still be published one day, as Lynch's daughter Jennifer last year suggested they were looking into doing:
https://t.co/DNag0hRRJJ

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Jennifer Lynch says David Lynch’s children “aren’t sure anyone else can direct” his unproduced work UNRECORDED NIGHT. “We are considering offering that as a published piece, so that people can sit w/ his ideas.” She also says Kyle M, Laura Dern & Naomi Watts would have been in it

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In new interview looking back 1yr after David Lynch's death, Sabrina Sutherland adds a bit more info about his final (unproduced) project, UNRECORDED NIGHT: he expected it to be "maybe 20-25 hours" in length, and was "very close" to trying to move forward with it when he passed.

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David Lynch was still actively preparing UNRECORDED NIGHT when he died:
"It was probably the best thing he ever did...we were still writing up until the point he passed away. We were getting ready to go back to Netflix because he had reenvisioned some things..."

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From The Standard: https://t.co/42MDEFlZHS.
It was publicly known in 2020 that Lynch had copyrighted 13 "episodes" of UNRECORDED NIGHT, but this is the first indication of its expected length. 20-25 hrs exceeds the runtime of every other project solo-scripted by him, combined.