Lara Flynn Boyle Movie:

		List Price: $39.98		Label: Republic Pictures Salesrank: 36065 Released: December 18, 2001
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Twin Peaks - The First Season (Special Edition) Reviews:
twin peaks vhs box set
2009-05-14 - The ad said "sealed in original packaging" And indeed, it sure LOOKED like it was sealed, but the tapes were not in "like new" condition. There was static during the opening credits of each episode and a line at the top of the screen during the rest of them. This set was obviously played alot and was fast-fowarded while in play mode. It may not be the sellars fault, they may have recieved it themselves in this condition. This product was not what it was advertised to be.

Don't buy this if you want the complete first season.
2009-04-05 - I received this item as a gift and was shocked to discover that "episode 1" is not the pilot. This is an amazing series, and I was looking forward to enjoying it all over again, but it looks like I'll have to shell out $75 for the gold edition if I want to see the pilot. I guess I can make some kind of DVD sculpture out of these 4 disks.

great tv show
2009-02-05 - great show, but the first season just isn't enough to be satisfied with. you never find out who kills laura palmer in this season...

Dense with allusions and truthfulness
2008-02-19 - David Lynch is a genius. A mini series is a very difficult genre because each episode is rather long and must end with some unsolved suspense. Moreover altogether it is many hours on one single essential piece of suspense and it runs the risk of getting boring, of slowing down and of losing interest for the audience. What's more that genre is used quite a lot on American television with the soap operas. That miniseries also runs the risk of being compared today with the film, and of course it is. The film is short, dynamic and to the point all the time, perfectly concentrating on one single line of suspense. So what can David Lynch do to rejuvenate the genre, to regenerate the rules and inspiration of that genre? He does a lot and that's where he becomes a genius. First he embeds in his own miniseries short scene of a standard soap opera as the counterpoint of his own work. Then he multiplies allusions, visual or not, text or images or music, to many other series and authors. For one example the appearing of a black raven here and there is similar to the use of that animal in some of Stephen King's films or books. But these allusions are never comical, never derogatory. They are always there to provide the film with more depth, a cultural depth that I call a cultural ellipse. Those who see the ellipse get to that depth. Those who don't see it don't miss anything in the meaning of the film itself. But the best part of this series is the way the actors are directed. The scenes are systematically banal, standard, very trite even, especially the dialogue, and these scenes and these dialogues have been used many times in many TV series or films. But the actors are directed in such a way that the satire that could appear in these scenes is totally defused because the actors play them in an absolutely serious, truthful and even sincere way. Finally the various episodes are so inventive in surprises and even shocking revelations that we are really taken along in quite a dynamic way. So that watching the series after the film is quite interesting because of all the levels the film was obliged to push aside and that are developed here in full length, particularly all the elements showing the ugliness of life in this small community torn apart by rivalries and hatreds among the people, especially those who have some responsibility as for the future of the community itself. So get to it and enjoy it, especially if you like the succulent and over-ripe style that David Lynch uses so often.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines


Great DVD but, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY THE NEW GOLD EDITION COMES OUT 10/30/07!!!
2007-09-05 - I don't care if people don't like this but, DON'T BUY THIS DVD SET!!! A BRAND NEW SET WITH BOTH SEASONS IS COMING OUT OCT 30,2007. It includes both seasons of twin peaks,the pilot episode plus an extras disk. The picture has also been redone to look much better and the sound has also been remastered. Don't take this the wrong way I'm a huge Lynch fan and I just don't want people to waste their money on this if they want the whole series. If you don't want all the episodes then by all means by this thing it's the only way you can get the first season on it's own. By the way if you want the new edition of both seasons w/ all the bells and whistles you want the "TWIN PEAKS GOLD EDITION" thats the newest edition. thanks for reading my review.