FIlmcap: The week of Feb 20-27

We now have gone two straight weeks without an A- or A movie. Doesn't mean these have been bad, but nothing amazing yet and it's been the longest since I started this thing. This week comes three very different B movies and two other interesting yet lackluster films. 

Filmcap: The week of Jan 30-Feb 6

This week somehow happened to a pretty good movie watching week with four legitimately great films, one Polish, one British set in Australia, one French in English, and one French and Austrian in French. The two not as great movies were (coincidentally?) both American and both big Academy Awards winners, though admittedly one of which, as you'll see below, was actually pretty good. Read all about it.

Thoughts on "Twin Peaks"

Twin Peaks (1990-1991): Besides "Arrested Development" another series I watched over the past semester and just recently finished is "Twin Peaks." The best way to describe it would be I guess to say it's a David Lynch soap opera, and all the expectations that go with that. It's written as a show with a central mystery of who killed Laura Palmer, but it's directed and acted with a sense of weirdness and off-the-wall humor and dialogue. The latter is what made this show so great and unique. Creating a mood on television is very rare on television, and only when you get a gifted film director like David Lynch did television finally get a show that combined great writing with a great sense of mood and atmosphere.