Jen, the copies are decent. I think everybody's pulling from the same source pool anyway, and once it's digitized there's not much degradation. Most are at the level of a second generation video dub. Completely watchable.

If you were expecting a Twin Peaks movie, I totally understand how you'd feel this way, but I absolutely adore FWWM as a David Lynch movie.

Hella disturbing, and Sheryl Lee was absolutely amazing. But decidedly not the fun ride (no matter the occasional odd digression) that Twin Peaks was overall.

As with most movie opinions, Frank and I are in agreement.

As with most movie opinions, Frank and I are in agreement.

Ah, I discovered one big area here of disagreement - I adore LAST TANGO, and admire a lot of the Cassavettes, although I prefer his more genre oriented movies, like GLORIA and CHINESE BOOKIE (and MIKEY AND NICKY which is Elaine May channelling Cassavettes for all she's worth), to his suburban/domestic dramas.

Yeah, I've been meaning to watch Chinese Bookie. I did like Gloria a lot. Enough to understand what Mark Eitzel was singing about when he sang "The thing that holds the world together / is the wind in Gena Rowlands hair."

I had a copy of Too Late Blues that I loaned to Scrappy (and never saw again....tap tap tap). He sort of disavowed it, but it's still his second movie. And it's got Bobby Darin, Connie Stevens, Seymour Cassell and a cameo by Slim Gaillard.

I will admit I love Cassavettes as an actor more than a director. And his really love his more disreputable films at that: ROSEMARY'S BABY (a classic, I know, but still), THE DIRTY DOZEN, THE FURY.

I will admit I love Cassavettes as an actor more than a director.

Which is why I own two tape collections of his detective/jazz pianist TV show Staccato.

Also, my dislike of Last Tango is probably driven (in part) by my having seen it when I was 20. I suspect it would have much more resonance for me now in my 40s.

However, my deep annoyance with Actor Improv Movies is a constant.

(Also, Scrappy, I'm just teasing. I know I foisted that tape on you.)

Thanks, Hec.

(ETA: OK, so we've moved on from TP. Still.) Twin Peaks. We used to have viewing parties. I remember the ep I watched alone had the most disturbingly violent scene that I'd seen on TV up to that point... where whosit gets beaten to death by possessed father-guy, smashed into mirrors (I particularly remember that), dragged and slammed from wall to wall. God. Still gives me shivers. It was so viscerally evil. Man, it's been so long since the series, I can't even remember what the scene was... was that a flashback to the original murder, or is that what happened to the cousin by her possessed uncle, who was the father of the original murdered girl? I can't even remember names now. Laura?

Ahem, but... loved the show!

Man, it's been so long since the series, I can't even remember what the the scene was... was that a flashback to the original murder, or is that what happened to the cousin by her possessed uncle, who was the father of the original murdered girl? I can't even remember names now. Laura?

Oh yeah. I think Matt has cited this scene as one of the scariest in TV history.

Loved Twin Peaks - so many incredible scenes. My most disturbing was the one when Rhonda Pulasaki (I think that's her character's name - the other girl that survived from the freight car) came back to consciousness.

Matt and I are one on that, for sure. Hmm. I think maybe I'll add TP to the Netflix queue. It'd almost be like new again. Heh, my roomate from those days still occasionally asks for her coffee "...black as midnight on a moonless night," even though, yeah, I know how she takes her coffee.

Oh, and since we've been jabbering about upcoming DVD releases in Minearverse, I should note that Lois and Clark S1 is finally coming out on DVD this year. I don't think Tim wrote for it until S3, however. Still!

Twin Peaks was the only show to ever creep me out so much that I had to double check the locks on the front door, back door, garage door and basement door AND lock my bedroom door before I could sleep. I never lock my bedroom door.