monday /\/\ twin peaks

[pirate cinema berlin]

The Twin Peaks sequel was supposed to be many things, but not the surprise hit
it turned out to be. All it needed to do was to meet expectations: David Lynch 
had to recreate the retro charm of the original series' own retro charm in a
contemporary environment, retain its palette of warm reds and browns and maybe 
add a little digital blue, reapply the magic formula of Blue Velvet one more 
time and send Kyle MacLachlan on yet another journey to the dark underside of 
American normality, but sprinkle it with a bit of Mulholland Drive -- with a 
new generation of twins and doubles, a few fresh faces, and hopefully some 
adult sex. (In 1991, Twin Peaks didn't have to compete with Game of Thrones.)

David Lynch, wisely, chose to play deaf: not just to ignore the demands of 
contemporary television, but also to demolish 25 years of established Twin 
Peaks orthodoxy. The new season is very black, sometimes mauve, and brightly 
yellow in between; it opens in New York, then moves to South Dakota, continues 
in Las Vegas, and even though it sporadically returns to Twin Peaks, it feels 
more like an 18-hour version of Inland Empire: a series of experimental short 
films, a rapid succession of really slow scenes, interlaced with the potential 
pilots for several new TV shows. A few motifs are borrowed from Lost Highway, 
but otherwise, Lynch goes all the way back to Eraserhead, and beyond: returns 
to animation, stop-motion, and some very early cinema. (Not to mention Episode 
8, which, in both content and form, remains a bizarre, beautiful and, even by 
the standards of the new Twin Peaks universe, entirely unexpected outlier.)

On Monday morning, the season finale is going to hit the torrent trackers, and 
we're going to screen it right away, on Monday night. As an extra adventure in 
copyright infringement, the program will be preceded by our own two-hour edit 
of the past 16 episodes, which is intended to serve the needs of three types of 
viewers: those who don't want to see the series at all (but, absent the cake, 
don't mind the icing), those who still want to watch it (but trust our verdict 
that the new season is unspoilable by design), and those who have already seen 
it (but, given the rather anachronistic weekly rhythm of releases, probably the 
show's only major flaw, feel entitled to an extended recap). Anyone who happens 
to belong to neither of these categories is welcome to just hang out at the bar.

Trailer: https://piratecinema.org/trailers/september4.mp4

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                                                                          monday
                                                                     september 4
                                                                    from 7:30 pm

                                                                            8 pm
                                         twin peaks e01-e16 (pirate cinema edit)
                                                                        120 mins

                                                                           10 pm
                                              twin peaks e17+e18 (season finale)
                                                                        120 mins

                                                            pirate cinema berlin
                                                                u kottbusser tor
                                                           e-mail for directions

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