Anatomy of a Fascinating Disaster: Fire Walk With Me

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8311326/twenty-things-david-lynch-fire-walk-its-20th-anniversary
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> David Lynch
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> http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/48bgm5fa9780252036934.html
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=GdXeLQIhYJQC

 3. 2666, the mammoth final novel by the late Chilean novelist Roberto
Bolaño, includes a conversation about Lynch's filmography between a
journalist and a border-town motel manager who's giving him directions
to a cyber-café called Fire Walk With Me. This strikes the reporter as
odd. "The clerk shrugged and said that all of Mexico was a collage of
diverse and wide-ranging homages."

 ‎4. The opening credits roll over what turns out to be a close-up of
static on a TV screen; then somebody smashes the TV with an ax. The
killing of a television — it seems like a rare moment of obvious
symbolism for Lynch, the auteur about to wrap up his series on his own
terms. (Analog-TV snow, after all, is how HBO slyly informs you that
you're not watching TV.) But it's also a clue that this will be a
movie in which screens and other seemingly flat surfaces —
photographs, curtains, mirrors — are actually porous borders between
one reality and the next

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