Subject: Re: Newspaper Article on THE MOVIE!!!
From: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Downing)
Date: 1991-08-20, 15:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <6975@tellab5.tellabs.com> jfr@tellabs.com (John Ryder) writes:
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> >By Elaine Dutka (Los Angeles Times)
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> >First, however, is the re-release of Lynch's first feature, 1978's "Eraserhead",
> >by Miramax Films in late October. Described by the company as an "eerily erotic
> >sci-fi parable of the responsibilities of parenthood," the movie focuses on
> >a man whose hair stands permenantly on end in the shape of an eraser. After
> >impregnating his girfriend, he is forced to marry her and becomes the father
> >of a strange inhuman creature.
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> >Why dredge up "Eraserhead" now? "There's a lot of interest in David Lynch,"
> >says Russell Schwartz, executive vice-president of Miramax. "And we think
> >it would be fun taking a cult classic which for years played only at
> >midnight shows and turning it into a mainstream picture."
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> >Lynch's camp agrees. "Those people who are familiar with David are more in
> >touch with `Blue Velvet' and `Wild At Heart' than his earlier work," Gaye
> >Pope says. "Bringing `Eraserhead' out again for a whole new audience who've
> >never seen it before is a great idea."
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> >Industry observers say that it makes good commercial sense, as well. And not
> >only because Lynch is a brand name these days or that, in an era of belt-
> >tightening, re-release is a way of sidestepping an expensive production
> >budget.
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> >"It feeds the public's hunger for `hip'", one notes, "which right now, is
> >coming primarily from the black filmmakers. Gus Van Sant, the Coen Brothers,
> >Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch contribute their one film a year, but anything
> >out of the mainstream is an increasingly rare commodity in an industry
> >that feeds on junk food."
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Great news about ERASERHEAD. Maybe I'll finally be able to see it. Up
until now, it's been relegated to one or two night midnite showings at
the local "art" moviehouses, and never when I'm around, of course :-)

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