approached him to direct a film based on Anthony Summers’s biography of Marilyn Monroe, Goddess (1985). By the end of 2017, she appeared in four films- The Book of Henry (Colin Trevorrow, 2017), Chuck (Philippe Falardeau, 2017), The Glass Castle (Destin Cretton, 2017) and 3 Generations (Gaby Dellal, 2017)-and starred in the Netflix drama Gypsy (2017).Īmong its many riches, Chris Rodley’s book-length interview with Lynch offers two bits of insight apropos of Mulholland Drive: 1.) Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950) is one of Lynch’s all-time favorite films, and 2.) Warner Bros. Naomi Watts, the star of the film and a member of the new Twin Peaks cast, was more visible than ever. The related publicity was already at fever pitch. ![]() This renewed interest in Mulholland Drive coincided with the 2017 return of Twin Peaks, the ABC series Lynch co-created with Mark Frost, about to return on Showtime after its aborted run on ABC from 1990 to 1991. The French production company Studio Canal picked up the rights and granted Lynch the funding to shoot new scenes and give the pilot an ending, allowing him to release it theatrically as a feature film. The film’s thriving afterlife is particularly impressive considering it began in 1999 as an open-ended television pilot rejected by ABC. Writer-director Lynch had just supervised a 4K restoration for the 2015 Blu-ray premiere and DVD re-release, courtesy of The Criterion Collection, as well as the 2017 Digital Cinema Package release in the U.K. ![]() Ranked in first place was Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001). In 2016, BBC Culture listed the 100 greatest films of the twenty-first century voted by critics from around the world.
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