Twin Peaks: The Return, or What Isn’t Cinema?


"1: Where You Find It. Any port in a storm. In 2017, faced with the most ignominious slate of theatrical releases in memory, a few of us belonging to the small cabal of film world types who engage in the curious ritual of year-end listmaking, decided to recruit a television show to the ranks of cinema, or at least tried to. Enough agreed that the resurrected 2017 season of Twin Peaks, also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, was the artistic apotheosis of one of the greatest living filmmakers, David Lynch, who directed and cowrote every episode, to place it on the top tens of both Sight & Sound and Cahiers du cinéma, cinephile publications which allowed it in the running. Elsewhere, its non-eligibility revived a periodic kerfuffle over whether a work made for and aired on 'television,' much less a serialized one, could ever take its place among the year’s best 'films.' ..."
Reverse Shot - (Part One), (Part Two), (Part Three), (Part Four)

2008 September: Twin Peaks, 2010 March: Twin Peaks: How Laura Palmer's death marked the rebirth of TV drama, 2011 October: Twin Peaks: The Last Days, 2014 October: Welcome to Twin Peaks, 2015 June: David Lynch: ‘I’ve always loved Laura Palmer’, 2015 July: Twin Peaks Maps, 2016 May: Hear the Music of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Played..., September: Twin Peaks Tarot Cards For The Magician Who Longs To See Through The Darkness Of Future Past, 2014 September: David Lynch: The Unified Field, 2014 December: David Lynch’s Bad Thoughts - J. Hoberman, 2015 March: Lumière and Company (1995), 2015 April: David Lynch Creates a Very Surreal Plug for Transcendental Meditation, 2015 December: What Is “Lynchian”?, 2017 March: Anatomy of a Fascinating Disaster: Fire Walk With Me, 2017 April: Trading Card Set of the Week – Twin Peaks (Star Pics, 1991), 2017 April: Your Complete Guide to Rewatching "Twin Peaks"

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