Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: David Lynch David Lynch

Overview

"David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series ""Twin Peaks"" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top honors student at the local high school. By night, she is a sex-crazed cokehead, prostituting herself at a sleazy sex club to get money to feed her drug habit. Her race to oblivion is fueled by her father, Leland (Ray Wise), who, as his alter ego Bob (Frank Silva), has been sexually abusing Laura since she was a child. But Laura has an attack of conscience when she realizes that she is leading her best friend Donna (Moira Kelly) down the same rocky road. Leland, however, discovers Laura's nocturnal debauchery when, during a business trip out-of-town, his mistress for a sexual tryst sets him up with his own daughter. In a fit of jealous rage, Leland follows Laura as she travels to a sex party in an abandoned railroad car. Consumed by insatiable longing, Leland transforms himself into Bob, with tragic results for Laura and her friends."

Product Details

Release Date:	10/17/2017
UPC:	0715515204118
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	R
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:15:00
Sales rank:	1,186

Special Features

Restored 4K digital transfer with 7.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised by director David Lynch; Alternate original 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; The Missing Pieces, ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from the film, assembled by Lynch; Interview from 2014 by Lynch with actors Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, and Grace Zabriskie; New interviews with Lee and composer Angelo Badalamenti; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sheryl Lee	Laura Palmer
Ray Wise	Leland Palmer
Moira Kelly	Donna
Kyle MacLachlan	Cooper
Chris Isaak	Chester
Harry Dean Stanton	Carl
David Bowie	Phillip
Dana Ashbrook	Bobby
Kiefer Sutherland	Sam
Peggy Lipton	Norma
Phoebe Augustine	Ronette Pulaski
Grace Zabriskie	Sarah Palmer
Pamela Gidley	Teresa Banks,Teresa Banks
David Lynch	Gordon Cole
Miguel Ferrer	Albert Rosenfield
Heather Graham	Annie Blackburn
Jurgen Prochnow	Woodman
Gary Bullock	Sheriff Cable
Frank Silva	Bob
Al Strobel	Phillip Michael Gerard
Frances Bay	Mrs. Tremond
Eric DaRe	Leo Johnson
Rick Aiello	Cliff Howard
Catherine E. Coulson	Log Lady
Chris Pedersen	Tommy
Victor Rivers	Buck
Jon Huck	FBI Agent
Mike Malone	FBI Agent
Joe Berman	Bus Driver
Yvonne Roberts	1st Prostitute
Audra L. Cooper	2nd Prostitute
John Hoobler	Pilot
Kimberly Ann Cole	Lit the Dancer
Elizabeth Ann McCarthy	Giggling Secretary
C.H. Evans	Jack at Hap's
Paige Bennett	French Girl at Hap's
G. Kenneth Davidson	Old Guy at Hap's
Ingrid Brucato	Curious Women
Chuck McQuarry	Medic
Margaret Adams	Fat Trout Neighbor
Carlton L. Russell	Jumping Man
Calvin Lockhart	The Electrician
Jonathan J. Leppell	Mrs. Tremond's Grandson
David Brisbin	Second Woodman
Andrea Hays	Heidi
Steven Hodges	Band at Roadhouse
William Ungerman	Band at Roadhouse
Joseph 'Simon' Szeibert	Band at Roadhouse
Gregory 'Smokey' Hormel	Band at Roadhouse,Band at Roadhouse
Joseph L. Altruda	Band at Roadhouse
James Parks	Service Station Mechanic
Jane Jones	School Teacher
Karin Robison	Angel in Train Car
Lorna MacMillan	Angel in Red Room
Julee Cruise	Roadhouse Singer
Gary Hershberger	Mike Nelson
Sandra Kinder	Irene at Hap's
Lenny Van Dohlen	Harold Smith
Michael J. Anderson	Man from Another Place
Walter Olkewicz	Jacques Renault
Mädchen Amick	Shelly Johnson
James Marshall	James Hurley
Anne Gaybis	Actor
Everett McGill	Ed Hurrly
Chris Pederson	Tommy
Lenny Von Dohlen	Harold Smith
Chuck McQuary	Medic
Kimmy Robertson	Lucy Moran (scenes deleted)
Angelo Badalamenti	Composer

Technical Credits

David Lynch

Robert Engels

David Lynch	Director,Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Producer
Francis Bouygues	Producer
Gregg Fienberg	Producer
Mark Frost	Executive Producer,Producer
Robert Engels	Screenwriter
Johanna Ray	Casting

Editorial Reviews

The banal and the bizarre are exquisitely intertwined in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch's prequel to his groundbreaking TV serial, Twin Peaks. Darker and more violent than its TV predecessor, Fire Walk with Me follows the last days of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a small-town Oregon high school student whose murder -- and its subsequent investigation -- provided the main tension in the TV series. The film reprises a number of main characters from the show, including FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), whose offbeat good-guy persona bound the series together. But Fire Walk with Me is ultimately Laura Palmer's story, and Lee gives a riveting performance as a teen torn between innocence and lust who is victimized by a mysterious sexual abuser. A plethora of eccentric characters swirl around Palmer: Their similarly fractured psyches provide fodder for the director’s characteristic exploration of unspeakable secrets lurking beneath the mundane fabric of small-town life. Lynch's outrageously strange vision, rife with dream symbols, is perfectly complemented by a haunting score from his regular musical collaborator, composer Angelo Badalamenti. The result is an intense, head-spinning psychological thriller -- darkly sexual, breathtakingly enigmatic, and quintessentially Lynchian.