David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was released in the United Kingdom on November 20, 1992. As part of publicity for the film, a fantastic Red Room-themed press kit was produced. The kit contained a film synopsis, a chart tracking all the relationships in the film and several black and white publicity photos taken by…
The death of David Lynch did not go unnoticed here in the UK. Since March, two national cinema chains, Everyman and Picturehouse, have embarked on year long retrospectives of his theatrical work, re-releasing one film a month each in order. Picturehouse are even pairing each one with another film that could be said to have…
On Oct. 23, 1990, Twin Peaks mania descended on the United Kingdom as David Lynch and Mark Frost’s show began airing on BBC2. Just like several months earlier in the United States, interest in Julee Cruise’s music piqued once the wonderful and strange sounds filled the air. Nearly a month later, she was performing her…
I recently shared how Julee Cruise’s first single from her “Floating Into The Night” album was ‘Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart,” a modern song with a nod to the 1950s that famously played in Twin Peaks episode 2.007. A video for the song would begin playing on VH-1 in North America around Dec. 22, 1989, followed…
In 1993, I fell in in love with David Lynch and Mark Frost’s “wonderful and strange” show by watching reruns of Twin Peaks on Bravo TV. But that Bravo TV was the cable channel found in the United States. Two years later in April 1995, a different Bravo TV began airing reruns of the show…
Leading up to the UK release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on November 20, 1992, the Daily Mirror Xtra ran a contest for readers to win a trip to the real Twin Peaks of Snoqualmie Valley, Washington. They also were giving away tickets to a special advanced screening of David Lynch’s masterpiece being…
While other parts of the world experienced Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me earlier in 1992, the United Kingdom wouldn’t see David Lynch’s masterpiece until November 20 that year. Interestingly, the film’s release was almost three years after the Twin Peaks pilot was released in the country on December 8, 1989. Here’s a look back…