Chris Isaak, Dana Ashbrook, David Bowie

Originally filmed as a prequel to director David Lynch's cult television series "Twin Peaks," this movie appeared in theaters after the show was canceled. Lynch attempts to answer the big questions fo...( read more  read more... )r diehard fans: Who would have wanted to kill high school prom queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) -- and why? The usual suspects (Grace Zabriskie, Ray Wise and Kyle MacLachlan) reprise their roles alongside guest stars Kiefer Sutherland and David Bowie.

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Directed by: David Lynch

Release Date: August 28, 1992

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DVD Release Date: February 26, 2002

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  • August 4, 2009
    This film actually got me into Twin Peaks, simply because I wanted to find out what it meant. I was a fairly staunch David Lynch fan, though, which should explain why it hooked me. Even though it has its flaws and redundancies, I'd rate this as one of Lynch's best movies, on a pa...( read more)r with Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story (that set of five movies should testify to his oft-overlooked versatility).

    Either way. The strength of Twin Peaks lay in its defamiliarisation of Twin Peaks the town, the strength of the movie (from that baffling, caustic opening half-hour on) is about defamiliarising Twin Peaks the show. Of course, this could explain why it was a bomb at the box office. Nevertheless, there's a whole new sense of tragedy to the series after watching this. We know already that Laura Palmer is not the perky, confident, lovable girl the inhabitants of Twin Peaks tell us she is in the pilot episode of the TV show. That makes it even more wrenching to watch. Are they lying, or just in denial?

    For understanding the difference between films and TV so adeptly, this is probably the best TV-film transfer in the history of those two mediums. Many great set-pieces, including one in a traffic jam that, like all Lynch's best moments, makes you feel terrifically uncomfortable without allowing you to understand why.

    Yet underneath all the strangeness, overdone dream sequences and inexplicable David Bowie cameos, this is about Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a genuine tragic heroine. Incest victim, cocaine addict and prostitute, the film never glamourises or eroticises her torment, keeping the uneasy edge while Lynch observes with purest sympathy. And there's nothing weird about sympathy, is there?
  • April 25, 2009
    Do you know who I am?

    I am 'the arm'.
  • April 17, 2009
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me can be both nightmarish and beautiful and both at the same time. Far from consistent or meaningful structure, but like most of David Lynch's films it relies on other methods than plot, storyline and performance to achieve its effect. This however,...( read more) makes no allowance for a viewer unfamiliar with the characters and the information needed. Such scenes as a bloodied Annie Blackburn, or references to the Bad Dale in the Black Lodge, will be meaningless or at least less effective to anyone unfamiliar with events of the TV series.

    The films of David Lynch are an acquired taste. Some people are entertained by some of the quirks and impressed by the creepiness, while still so irritated by the character hysteria and irrationality, and dense episodic events, that they fail to be won over. You'll really have to see this one and decide for yourself.
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  • December 5, 2008
    I've seen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me dozens of times and feel like a total jagweed for not reviewing it sooner. Fire Walk With Me is a great, great movie filled with absolutely beautiful imagery and chock full of David Lynch's trademarked random lunacy. The problem is that Fir...( read more)e Walk With Me is by no means a standalone movie. You'd probably be lost regardless but if you haven't seen at least half of the Twin Peaks series you're pretty much out of luck. This movie's got a great cast even though most of the characters from the show are barely in this movie if they're even in it at all. Rumor has it that Lynch's original cut was 3 1/2 hours and was going to wrap up the whole show--too bad we couldn't take it...
  • October 31, 2008
    If you liked the series then this is just more of the same freakshow.
  • October 5, 2009
    ANNIE BLACKBURN: [to Laura] My name is Annie. I've been with Dale and Laura. The good Dale is in the lodge and can't leave. Write it in your diary.
  • October 1, 2009
    i haven't seen it but my sis told me that it is very scaryyy
  • September 17, 2009
    A very nice achievement and a shocking conclusion to arguably the best American mini-series ever made: Twin Peaks. The direction by Lynch is still present in this film with his genius and style throughout. Surreal and suspenseful, Fire Walk With Me is a unique film. Although not ...( read more)spectacular and definitely far from his best, it's a very unique thriller.

    70/100
  • September 9, 2009
    Uneven, but at times fascinating. The DVD has a rather unconventional featurette -- suitably Lynchian in its nonlinear approach.
  • August 29, 2009
    Peut-être le film de Lynch le plus barge. Malheureusement pas le meilleur en revanche. Je suis un immense fan de la série Twin Peaks et ce film possède en comparaison quelques vrais défauts: le plus important est la présence de deux parties (celle concernant le FBI et la 1ère enq...( read more)uête, et celle concernant Laura Palmer, de loin la meilleure). Dommage que l'actrice qui joue Dana ne soit pas la même que dans la série. Le film reste très bon, mais j'avoue que je me serais bien passé de la première partie, qui n'apporte finalement pas grand-chose. Et puis surtout, le premier épisode de la série (qui fait 1h30) est meilleur que ce film...

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