Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore feature is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family in the adult film industry of the late 1970s.
After his cult TV series ended with a cliffhanger, filmmaker David Lynch turned the feature film spin-off not into a conclusion but a prequel that explored the final week in the life of Laura Palmer.
Steve Martin’s tribute to shoestring filmmaking and big-screen dreams is a loving lampoon that gamely straddles the chasm between cynical con-artistry and benign innocence.
David Lynch’s surreal murder mystery / soap opera changed our ideas of what kinds of stories and storytelling was possible on television years before cable created the new prestige TV era.
