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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 8

Fwiw: THE LEGEND OF THE HAPPY WORKER (dir. by Twin Peaks editor Duwayne Dunham, exec produced by David Lynch, from a screenplay (by others) Lynch gave to Dunham post-BLUE VELVET) is finally being released, after wrapping filming in 2018. Co-stars Amy Shiels.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

‘Dracula’ by Radu Jude, David Lynch-Exec Produced ‘Happy Worker’ Set for Locarno Lineup

New movies from Abdelletif Kechiche, Vincent Grashaw, and Ben Rivers will also premiere at the Swiss fest, with artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro saying: "Let's regain the world one film at a time."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

I was hoping to get a chance to ask Hurley that (understanding that he may well not know since that was before his time) but never got an opportunity, alas.

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Which character that voice is supposed to be on the other side of Mr. C’s call is one of The Return’s thornier questions, and certainly isn’t getting resolved in this thread (indeed, its ambiguity is part of the point), but it’s nonetheless interesting to receive new information about it 8 yrs later

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

That angle is particularly relevant to The Return given its oneiric throughlines.

In Hurley’s case, the fact that he was the Sound/Music Supervisor is of additional salience, given the seemingly critical (if nebulous) role “sounds” play in The Return’s web of meaning.

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Lynch appreciated the suggestive resonance of having creators of the film themselves appear as characters—think, e.g., Cori Glazer, Script Supervisor for Mulholland Dr., appearing as the Blue-Haired “Silencio” lady. Or Lynch as Gordon Cole, the dreamer who lives inside the dream.

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

While fans have previously guessed at any number of performers providing these voices with some technical manipulation (Lynch himself, Sheryl Lee, Grace Z., Al S., Sherilyn F., etc.), I think there’s a certain Lynchian logic in them being Hurley, the TP Sound & Music Supervisor…

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hurley added that there are “quite a number of things” he voiced in The Return, mentioning the voice of Johnny Horne’s teddy bear, but leaving the rest unspecified.

For what it’s worth, my guess is that Hurley also provides the voice for The Evolution of the Arm…

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hurley: “That’s kind of me there. And that was always a confusing plot point to me, because I’m thinking it needed to be Phillip - he’s supposedly calling Phillip Jeffries… It’s so hard sort of figuring out his stuff in general, but I feel like some of those clues are like there…”

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 7

A nugget that real Twin Peaks heads may find interesting: over the weekend at Metrograph, Dean Hurley revealed (I believe for the first time) who performs “the mysterious voice [speaking to Mr. C] on the other end of the box in the hotel room, after shooting Darya” in Part 2: him.

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jul 6

TP Sound/Music Supervisor Dean Hurley at Metrograph’s Twin Peaks (2017) screening: “[Mixing TP] I got a call from [David Lynch], he was just like, ‘I listened to it on my computer speakers & IT FUCKING SUCKS, WE NEED TO FIX ALL OF THIS!’ Filled w fervor, he wanted everyone to experience *the thing*”

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jun 24

More from Kyle (via NPR's Wild Card) re: his last meeting w Lynch:
"He loved a chocolate croissant...So we'd go to Porto's, a great bakery in the valley, & get some croissant there & bring it back, open up the box, & he'd be like, 'YEAH!'...he'd just stuff it in <makes gobbling sounds>. So much fun.

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jun 24

Peter Deming on Lynch's unfinished projects: "In the time I knew him, there were half a dozen projects that almost got off the ground, & I never found out exactly why they didn’t, but I know it’s down to control. If he doesn’t get final cut, he won’t do it."
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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jun 24

Peter Deming on UNRECORDED NIGHT: "We went on one location scout, David hired a produdction designer, & was talking to Laura [Dern] & Naomi [Watts] about parts in it, & then COVID happened.... I know Jennifer [Lynch] & the kids are talking about publishing it as a book."
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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jun 24

Kyle MacLachlan on his last mtg w/ David Lynch: "He was very much about the Next Thing, & trying to figure out a way to direct, but to do it remotely. And that was gonna be an option. Certainly he was not in the best of health, but he was like, We've got more work to do." www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jun 19

David Foster Wallace in '96: "Dentistry seems to be a new passion for Lynch, btw—the photo on the title page of Lost Highway's script, which is of a guy with half his face normal & half unbelievably distended & ventricose & gross, was apparently plucked from a textbook on extreme dental emergencies"

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · Jun 19

Correction, fwiw: the final selling price for all the script copies was actually $760,500. (I failed to realize that the Lost Highway and Wild at Heart lots still hadn't yet come up for final bidding when I posted the initial tweet.)

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