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.

Twin Peaks S2 was reportedly scheduled for release in region 4 during September 2004. Approximately a month before the release date, the site with the info abruptly changed the year to 2005. Hopefully the reason was so the release could use the remastered video footage.

Twin Peaks is one I was pretty much too young for at the time, but I'd love to watch it from the beginning. But if I rent S1, it'll be missing the pilot?

The pilot is available, but it was released separately. I guess different entities owned the rights or something.