In a team-up for the ages, the mighty Eileen Jones of Filmsuck and I get a damned fine cup of coffee and discuss what I think could be one of the greatest movies of the 1990s, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. I play the useful idiot, mouthing mindless fanboy blather that tries to “explain” everything down to minute detail. Eileen reflects on her thirty-plus years love affair with David Lynch and how the Twin Peaks experience is much richer when you embrace the director’s beautiful ambiguity.
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Nearly three decades ago, most American film critics trashed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The fact they were simultaneously wetting their pants over the shallow and blatantly transphobic Silence of the Lambs is perhaps the greatest irony of this fiasco.
NY Times film critic Vincent Canby: “It’s not the worst movie ever made; it just seems to be.”
Rolling Stone‘s Peter Travers: “Though the movie ups the TV ante on nudity, language and violence, Lynch’s control falters.”
Variety‘s Todd McCarthy: “Clearly, there is no suspense involved in this story with a preordained outcome. Another significant drawback is that Laura Palmer, after all the talk, is not a very interesting or compelling character and long before the climax has become a tiresome teenager.”
And so I ask, why should we mourn the demise of professional newspaper film criticism? How did these idiots ever have so much influence over the critical, financial and popular success of movies?
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