Fire Walk With Me

Critical and fan reaction

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Fire Walk With Me was greeted at the Cannes Film Festival with booing from the audience and met with almost unanimously negative reviews. The film flopped in the United States, partially because it was released almost a year after the television series was cancelled (due to a sharp ratings decline in the second season) and partially due to its incomprehensibilty to the uninitiated. Many people, especially critics, found the film stylish but bewildering.

Related Topics:
Cannes Film Festival - United States

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The film also disappointed many devotees of the TV series due to its darker tone, lack of humor and absence of resolution to the series' cliff-hanger ending.

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However, in recent years, the film has experienced a small resurgence in popularity among Lynch?s fans, some of whom see it as the director at his best.

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Lynch filmed a vast amount of footage, reportedly enough for a four-hour film; much of it never made the final cut (which was still longer than two hours). The missing footage remains the 'Holy Grail' for many Twin Peaks fans. The footage nearly appeared on New Line's Special Edition DVD in 2002 but was nixed over budget and running time concerns. In 2002 a French company called MK2 began negotiations with Lynch to include the missing scenes, properly edited and scored, in an upcoming Special Edition DVD. This has yet to appear.

Related Topics:
Holy Grail - New Line - 2002 - MK2

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After Fire Walk with Me was released, Lynch reportedly planned a second prequel, possibly utilizing footage edited out of the first movie. However, in a 2001 interview he said that the Twin Peaks franchise is ?dead as a doornail.? http://www.davidlynch.de/empire2001.html

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