Twin Peaks: Tuli, kõnni minuga (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me)

David Lynch's surrealist fever dream

We’re not going to talk about Judy, okay?

With the mainstream success of David Lynch and Mark Frost's massively influential television series Twin Peaks, a feature film should have been a slam-dunk success. Instead, FIRE WALK WITH ME was despised when it came out, met with boos at its Cannes premiere, a commercial flop at the box office, and derided as some sort of paranoid fever dream by critics.

But three decades later, the critical tune has changed. FIRE WALK WITH ME, a time-shifting prequel to the series, is now regarded as one of Lynch's best films – a masterpiece alongside BLUE VELVET and MULHOLLAND DRIVE. That's not to say it isn't a fever dream at times – it’s a tonal-shift companion piece that shades in detail missing from the overall Twin Peaks grand narrative, acting as an epilogue and a bridge to the third season…which only took another 25 years or so to arrive.