Julien's is auctioning a screenplay titled VOLUNTEERS it claims David Lynch wrote in 1971; it's purportedly "a military satire" that "follows a group of young men who have been drafted to go to Vietnam" & engage in "various hijinks" to get out of it. I don't know if I believe them...

Fwiw: THE LEGEND OF THE HAPPY WORKER (dir. by Twin Peaks editor Duwayne Dunham, exec produced by David Lynch, from a screenplay (by others) Lynch gave to Dunham post-BLUE VELVET) is finally being released, after wrapping filming in 2018. Co-stars Amy Shiels. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A nugget that real Twin Peaks heads may find interesting: over the weekend at Metrograph, Dean Hurley revealed (I believe for the first time) who performs “the mysterious voice [speaking to Mr. C] on the other end of the box in the hotel room, after shooting Darya” in Part 2: him.

TP Sound/Music Supervisor Dean Hurley at Metrograph’s Twin Peaks (2017) screening: “[Mixing TP] I got a call from [David Lynch], he was just like, ‘I listened to it on my computer speakers & IT FUCKING SUCKS, WE NEED TO FIX ALL OF THIS!’ Filled w fervor, he wanted everyone to experience *the thing*”

Kyle MacLachlan on his last mtg w/ David Lynch: "He was very much about the Next Thing, & trying to figure out a way to direct, but to do it remotely. And that was gonna be an option. Certainly he was not in the best of health, but he was like, We've got more work to do." www.npr.org/transcripts/...

David Foster Wallace in '96: "Dentistry seems to be a new passion for Lynch, btw—the photo on the title page of Lost Highway's script, which is of a guy with half his face normal & half unbelievably distended & ventricose & gross, was apparently plucked from a textbook on extreme dental emergencies"

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" Sabrina Sutherland, via t.co/8XF0YJoUHD

Copies of scripts from David Lynch's personal collection sold at auction for $612,000 today. (Note: This auction of a subset of his possessions is happening per David's wishes, w/ proceeds split among his family. His creative archives will be relocated to a school or museum TBD.)

Mark Frost on the Empire Film Podcast today re: how he & David Lynch discussed bringing back Josie in Twin Peaks: The Return - “I pitched, okay somebody’s walking through the basement of The Great Northern, where they store old used furniture…And somebody hears somebody yelling for help...

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 with his ideas.” She also says Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern & Naomi Watts would have been in it.

The full (great) interview with David Lynch DP Peter Deming… Fun quote about watching Part 8 of Twin Peaks (2017) for the first time during the grading process: “I was like, ‘Wowee zowee.’ Just silent. I was flabbergasted by it…”

Mark Frost says he & Lynch had talked of making more TWIN PEAKS, & leaves open that he may add more to TP sans Lynch: “We had a little bit of a recipe forming; nothing terribly formal...It’s still kind of too soon, but it’s something I’ll get around to thinking about…” www.nme.com/features/tv-...

David Lynch DP Peter Deming on his unmade UNRECORDED NIGHT: “It took me three sittings to read it because it was so thick, but it was definitely not Twin Peaks. It was definitely a really interesting… mystery, I would say. Yeah, it’s too bad. [Laughs] It really is. Because it would’ve been good.”

ANDOR-creator Tony Gilroy on the show's biggest inspiration, BABYLON BERLIN (which I highly recommend): "That show blew me away—how beautiful it was, how rich and complex...yet it was an amazing adventure story.... That was kind of a benchmark for me like, Man... we have to be that."

Jarmusch & Cronenberg remember David Lynch as “a strange, beautiful gift to cinema & expression in general,” praise TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN as “one of the best things in a number of years” & “pretty hypnotic,” & both agree that “It’s really an 18-hour film.” Via Interview Mag: t.co/oV9LlY93Zy

Jennifer Lynch on her late father David Lynch's art practice: "If he was curious about it, or had an idea about it, he did it. He was not fearless, but he was so curious that the fear didn't matter. He just loved being here. He loved being alive. He loved it." Via Blue Rose mag—

That Drummond-Mark fight scene in the climactic moments of the #Severance S2 finale... "It's the same guy fighting himself, defeating his own psyche. Ego death."

So someone apparently posted my below Severance thread on its main subreddit, where it attracted >300 comments, a number of them extremely negative (ahh, Reddit). I thus quickly wrote a follow-up comment (reddit.com/r/SeveranceApp… ) where I elaborate on some of its points. See here, fwiw:

"Child-fucking-labor" struck me as suggestive phrasing in the latest Severance. As a child Cobel left her home b/c a powerful grown man, Jame, took an interest in her. Soon after, she invented a revolutionary method of dissociation. It's all redolent of a certain type of abuse...

Gemma x Helly parallels, Severance

SEVERANCE (S2E7, 2025) x LOST (pilot, 2004)

Laura in TWIN PEAKS (dir. Lynch, 1990-92) x Lolita in LOLITA (dir. Kubrick, 1962)

BROKEN HEART, by David Lynch, 2013 (Oil and mixed media on canvas, 71 x 55 inches).

Severance is a metaphor (in part) for how we deal w painful parts of ourselves like shame, grief: we repress them. "That's not me." But of course it IS you. If you argue the opposite—"Helena & Helly are not the same person"—then you're endorsing Helena's position here:

Happy birthday to David Lynch. Four brief snippets from TWIN PEAKS, all directed by him:

RIP David Lynch (1946- You know about death, that it's just a change— not an end. Never, never! Nothing will die. The stream flows, the wind blows, the cloud fleets, the heart beats. Nothing will die.

Jack Nance in TWIN PEAKS pilot (1990) x ERASERHEAD (1977): It's always seemed to me no accident that TWIN PEAKS opens with Laura Palmer's body being found by a man best known in Lynch's work for playing a father who kills his child amidst a strange dreamscape...

Does your friend or family member love TWIN PEAKS? This holiday season, you can buy them one of these lovely Nordstrom’s Twin Peaks jackets for the low low price of $3,160…

Notwithstanding the "gobble gobble gobble" FWWM scene from below, the true most Thanksgiving-y scene in all of TWIN PEAKS is the below, featuring pie, a gathering of friends, and no less than six (6) expressions of thankfulness in quick succession...

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

David Lynch's producer Sabrina Sutherland clarifies he did the below interview "just... to warn smokers & [in] hope that maybe he could stop someone from getting [emphysema]. He is actually quite healthy otherwise and the article sounds a bit more dramatic than real life. He’s not preparing to die."

Father John Misty, in recent interview, says David Lynch met with him about something "a few years ago" & Lynch made him sign an NDA. Did Lynch want him for either UNRECORDED NIGHT or TWIN PEAKS (2017)? I know Lynch has covered FJM's work musically, but presumably that wouldn't have merited an NDA.

David Lynch, in new interview, says in 2022 he realized he was going to die in a week if he didn’t quit smoking. His message to smokers now: “Think about it. You can quit these things that are going to end up killing you. I owe it to them — and to myself — to say that.” people.com/david-lynch-...

The parallel mirror-image framing of the two BOB reveals in TWIN PEAKS (Ep. 14 x Ep. 29), each culminating in an identical turn over the left shoulder to the camera. It seems fitting that these reveals should be accompanied by a breaking of the fourth wall; the illusions have been shattered.

David Lynch liked Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of A Fall” so much that he’s lent his services to illustrate the annotated edition of the film’s screenplay www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/11...

Note the cat statuette in: -TWIN PEAKS, S2E7 (1990, dir. Lynch, wr. Frost) x -LOLITA (1962, dir. Kubrick, wr./adapting Nabokov) x -THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945, dir./wr. Lewin, adapting Wilde) A short thread on this point of influence, which I haven't seen discussed before...

Impossible challenge time! Using subtle context clues, can you identify each of the works below based on seeing just these one or two enigmatic shots and/or lines from them?

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961, Ingmar Bergman) x THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS... (1871, John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll) While Bergman's title is very close to Carroll's, it has an independent, Biblical origin—and yet the similarity of the below sequences is striking, suggesting clear influence...

David Lynch on his new album w Chrystabell, CELLOPHANE MEMORIES, via The Wire mag: "Cellophane is transparent. You see through one layer & you get another layer, & you see through that & you see another" The layered vocals/imagery continue his longtime interest in doubles, & multiplicity of the self

Something for you to see & hear, directed & photographed by David Lynch: the music video for “Sublime Eternal Love,” the new single by him & Chrystabell, out today. The album, CELLOPHANE MEMORIES, is out August 2. m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bm...

TWIN PEAKS (2017) || Part 18 x Part 8. "This would look nice on your wall." 🧵 on this painting above the bed in P18's motel, & how it evokes specific desert imagery from P8...

ICYMI: David Lynch producer Sabrina Sutherland says David "has more ideas for another season" of TWIN PEAKS and she "hope[s] there will be more." Via a Sabrina Sutherland Q&A at the Tulpa TP fan forum today: tulpaforum.com/threads/memb...

TWIN PEAKS, S2E1 (1990, dir. David Lynch) x PERSONA (1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman) Note the image mirrored here is the beginning of one of the most symbolically potent sequences of Bergman's film, the moment of disjunction when the film literally breaks down & erodes from within...

TWIN PEAKS (2017), Part 18 x Part 3 Diane trying to unsee x Diane-as-Naido trying to see (Worth remembering: "Naido" is almost "Diane" backwards.)

DUNE (Lynch, 1984) x WIZARD OF OZ (Fleming et al., 1939) Everyone knows David Lynch loves OZ, but I haven't seen anyone note just how much that film's imagery of Dorothy's dream-traveling influenced the depiction of Paul's "traveling without moving" in DUNE...

DUNE (Lynch, 1984) x TWIN PEAKS (Lynch, 1990-92, 2017) The sleeper must awaken / We live inside a dream

Given Lynch's well-known attention to numerology, it seems worth noting this parallel: In TWIN PEAKS: FWWM, Jeffries appears in a seq. that begins w/ Coop stating the time as 10:10. In INLAND EMPIRE, Sue creates a portal (by pushing a cigarette thru silk) at... 10:10. [cont]

ZONE OF INTEREST (Glazer, 2023) x BLUE VELVET (Lynch, 1986) Flowers covering a fence/wall in two films exploring themes of psychological repression or self-deception. In each, the more menacing sounds and/or images of insects are also used to suggest the darkness being papered over.

PSA: someone uploaded an upscaled version of David Lynch's seldom-seen 1993 directorial effort HOTEL ROOM: BLACKOUT, with Alicia Witt & Crispin Glover. Likely the cleanest-looking version of this you'll find. Barry Gifford wrote it (Lynch has no writing credit). www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEDl...

More recent David Lynch news, from an interview in the Feb 24 Empire mag: "I have emphysema. And so I've had to quit [smoking] now for 2 yrs, or maybe a little bit more now... So, smoke, for me, is real dangerous. But I just LOVE it so much... [Cheetos is] a better option."