Subject: A positive FWWN reveiw!
From: ww10aac@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Eddie the 'ead)
Date: 1992-08-31, 14:52
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Hey, I found a positive review of FWWM in the San Diego Union-Tribune!
The headline reads "Lynch in top form in disturbing, quirky 'Twin Peaks"
movie."  The reviewer is not a Twin peaks fan and was "not prepared for
the churning, brooding power" of FWWM.  He says it is "Lynch's most disturbing
movie since 'Eraserhead.'

Some excerpts:

Even devout fans of the series may get lost a few times watching the film -
plot is not Lynch's interest - but it's the murky, jarring suction of the movie
that makes it fascinating and very oddly convincing
...
The opening is lullingly familiar.  We're back in the woods nowhere of
Lumberton, where almost everyone seems, under normal skin, like the inbred
cousin of a space alien.
...
The story has heavy shadows in daylight, then plunges past midnight.  Lynch and
cinematographer Ron Garcia, whose images rival Frederick Elmes' work on
previous Lynch films, achieve dramatic delicacies of light that feast on both
ugliness and beauty, so that the two seem to be trading masks, their truer
faces mysteriously hidden.
Lynch achieves more moody grip in a visual instant than most directors do over
an entire film.  He's a preening virtuoso, mannered to excess, but only a fool
would deny that he's an artist (and so is Angelo Badalamenti, whose score
carpets the film with textural touches of great variety).
Lynch's fascination with evil seems more genuine than his candid, boyish sense
of good.  What saves him from being "sick" or provocative is his romance with
movies.  For him the camera is the crystal ball of a disturbed but somehow
elevated world, magically beautiful even in harsh moments, a world that exists
to mesmerize.
As Laura, Sheryl Lee is remarkable.  She has been directed to be a kind of
peachy malt shop virgin, but poisoned by a family life that is hypocritical
hell.  Lee's acting is achingly sincere at moments, and seconds later a knowing
spoof of lousy TV acting, yet she is far beyond a soapster like Susan Lucci.
A preview audience that seemed made up mostly of "Twin Peaks" TV fans came to
giggle and hoot.  Lynch invites that response at first, then pulls the rug out
from under it, exposing the magical rot of Lumberton.




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