Iconic filmmaker Gregg Araki brings us into the singular, surreal world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Universally panned when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992, the film has since become a cult classic. Starring Sheryl Lee and Kyle McClachlan, with cameos from David Bowie and Harry Dean Stanton, the film is Lynch’s answer to the question posed by his Twin Peaks television series: Who killed Laura Palmer? Gregg makes the case for the movie as an uncompromising representation of Lynch’s genius, and as being distinct among his films for its emotional resonance. 

We learn about Gregg’s early influences, from graphic novels to the Sex Pistols and Rainer Fassbinder, and how the commercial bomb of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me intersected with his own first film, The Living End. Plus, how copy machines fueled the early days of American independent film.

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