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Song of the Day #6,143: ‘Laurens, Iowa’ – Angelo Badalamenti

In Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, an art dealer played by Adrien Brody says this about an abstract artist:

“One way to tell if a modern artist actually knows what he’s doing is to get him to paint you a horse or a flower or a sinking battleship or something that’s actually supposed to look like the thing it’s actually supposed to look like. Can he do it?”

If you apply that theory to David Lynch, then 1999’s The Straight Story is the movie that proves — beneath all the arthouse trappings and freaky dream logic — he actually knows what he’s doing.

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Song of the Day #6,141: ‘Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me’ – Angelo Badalamenti

Continuing my appreciation of filmmaker David Lynch’s career, the next film up is 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a big-screen prequel to the hit TV show.

The movie was greenlit after Twin Peaks was cancelled, its second season having ended on a grisly cliffhanger. But rather than resolve that story, Fire Walk With Me is a prequel to the series that depicts the week before Laura Palmer was found dead.

The film was a commercial failure, not surprising given that it’s a spin-off of a TV show that was cancelled due to low viewership.

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