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Twin Peaks and Manchester. One and the same.

fucking idiot.

PLEASE keep me posted!

Am a huge TP fan and live in Mancs.

PS Manchester aint as bad as Philly!

Cheers :-)

"There is no need for medicine. I am not in pain."

"There is no need for medicine. I am not in pain."

 Ooh, you managed to kiss the arses of people who organise an event you've yet to attend and offend the inhabitants of Manchester and the North East of England generally at the same time. Well done you! If it wasn't for Manchester I wouldn't have been able to see INLAND EMPIRE at a cinema. And people from Manchester are generally lovely...

Since Snoqualmie's likely to disappear under housing estates and casinos within the next ten years you'd best get a move on. Sitting at a computer bitching about Manchester isn't going to get you to Walla-Walla.   

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My dear Douglas Ferns, I didn't compare seeing INLAND EMPIRE in a cinema to the Twin Peaks festival, thus the idiocy you speak of is entirely your own. You've missed the point so completely I don't know what to say... And to be honest you won't see much of anything, fun or otherwise, sitting at your laptop complaining...      

wizardofxenia, ditto humour + irony + a dash of genuine warmth for Manchester. I like INLAND EMPIRE a lot and seeing it in a cinema was a joy. Seeing any Lynch film in a cinema is a joy because they rarely make it outside of London. I can't stand cinema purists either but I saw INLAND EMPIRE in the cinema (twice) and found the whole experience thrilling (twice). The curtains opening, the stylus at the beginning of the film, everybody walking out of the cinema backwards as the end credits rolled, staggering dazed into the street afterwards, daydreaming about what it all meant... I'm not saying it's better in a cinema, just that I personally found it very enjoyable. 

I've been a Twin Peaks fan since 1990 and I didn't visit Snoqualmie until 2007. It's a long way to travel (24 hours of non-stop travel either way) and it ain't cheap. If people don't have the time or the money to travel to Seattle and they want to have a convention in Manchester I think that's wonderful.   

To me this forum is itself a fine continuous convention for Twin Peaks fans, but I'm all for any kind of celebration of my beloved show  However, I would love to see the trees of Twin Peaks and explore the woods with "Into the Night" playing on my MP3 player...that, for me, would be the ultimate Twin Peaks experience...

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And on the subject of Inland Empire -

It saddens me that there's a Lynch film that doesn't work for me in the slightest.  Maybe it's because Mulholland Dr. is my favourite film of all time.  But I just didn't respond emotionally to Inland Empire at all.  I found it frustrating as hell.  I am willing to give it another try in the future.  It's not that I have a problem with digital video or anything, I mean it's worked brilliantly in so many films like Tarnation and Julien Donkey-Boy.  But I didn't feel anything for Inland Empire...I felt there was something missing from it that had suffused most of his other films...maybe a balance between humanity and abstraction...

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And going on from the idea of balancing humanity and abstraction, in my view Leland Palmer is the personification of Lynch's greatest work.  There's the waltzing duality in him, great good and extreme evil co-existing and interchanging as they do in Blue Velvet, the mystery, the tragedy that suffuses his films...Leland Palmer is the great Lynch film personified...

Not that he shouldn't be seen as a character on his own as well...he could be seen as both, more detachedly as the personification of the great Lynch film, and more emotionally as a tragic man...

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The only reason I continue to defend INLAND EMPIRE rather than slinking away to enjoy it in the privacy of my own home is that I was horrified the first time I saw Fire Walk With Me and loathed Mulholland Drive and they're my two favourite Lynch films. There's only a few Lynch films (The Straight Story, Lost Highway, INLAND EMPIRE) that I've liked from the beginning.

"There is no need for medicine. I am not in pain."

And there's also a facebook group - 'welcome to twin peaks'.

 I believe tickets are selling fast so get a move on - its ticket only.

while im not even going to address the criticism of IE(i have done it to death already, and those who dont like it arent going to be changed by anything i could say(other than i got your back faceintheleaves!)

andrew, assuming you were being sincere, do you really understand what you meam by this?
"And besides, seeing a film in the cinema isn't so special!"

WHAT?!?!?!?!?
the cinema was THE PLACE where film was first shown,
the large screen or cinema are the intended and idealized medium for viewing film. TV and computer screens are like a class of students reading aloud A Comedy of Errors, while all sitting at their desks in a circle and everyone gets lines to speak even if they dont want to.
Cinema is like front row of King Lear at the globe theater.
im almost offended by the dicotomy you are missing. :)
almost.