“I’m not allowed to talk about ‘Twin Peaks,’ ” David Lynch made clear to Time Out, so sorry, you won’t find any juicy bits in the magazine’s interview with the director about the highly anticipated return of his cult series next year. Instead, most of the talk is about transcendental meditation, but the filmmaker did take time to join the chorus of those shouting out television as the medium where today’s best storytelling and creativity can thrive.
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Indeed, we don’t really need to reiterate the top tier talent and excellent TV shows over the past few years that arguably provided more enriching entertainment than much of what is being offered to us on the big screen. As for Lynch, who hasn’t made a feature film since 2006’s “Inland Empire,” that his return behind the camera is for a television series instead of a feature length effort isn’t so much of a surprise.
“The feature film and the form of the feature film is not so pleasing to people these days. A continuing story seems to be what is interesting for people nowadays. Cable television is the new art-house,” he said.
Certainly, we’re getting more intimate, layered and complex storytelling on the small screen, and if this means someone like Lynch would rather crank out multiple hours of TV rather than try to get his distinct vision enacated in the current studio system, that’s just fine by us.
