Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition (R1) in October

Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition on 30th October 2007 priced at $108.99 SRP. The highly-anticipated Definitive Gold Box Edition of the series that became one of television’s most acclaimed events finally arrives – with all 29 episodes plus both the original and European versions of the pilot – on October 30, 2007 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. Considered both technically and artistically revolutionary when it debuted, Twin Peaks garnered 18 Emmy nominations over the course of its two-season run with its cast of memorable characters, stunning cinematography and intriguing plot. Co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost and a large number of the cast and crew have returned to participate in this extraordinary new collection.

"Finally the pilot is together with the series. The picture looks clean with good color correction. The sound is really good," said David Lynch. "I think this is a great definitive Twin Peaks Gold Set – the Gold represents the highest quality. A lot of work has gone in to this, and in my opinion it has really paid off."

"Working closely with David Lynch, I believe we've put together the ultimate Twin Peaks DVD box set with the most unique, interesting and comprehensive collection of content possible that will more than excite the ardent fan and engage new ones," commented Ken Ross, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CBS Home Entertainment. "And we drank some damn good cups of coffee along the way.'"

This 10-disc set includes "Greetings from Twin Peaks" collectable postcards and a plethora of special features, including hours of newly-minted bonus content, featuring exclusive cast and crew interviews and rare footage never before released on DVD, produced by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika (Alien Quadrilogy, Spider-Man 2: Special Edition, Blade Runner: The Final Cut.)

"Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks" is a collection of four new documentaries exploring the origins, production and impact of the show. The cast and crew, including co-creator Mark Frost, composer Angelo Badalamenti, singer Julee Cruise, actors Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Piper Laurie, Ray Wise, Sheryl Lee, Kenneth Welsh, Mädchen Amick, Miguel Ferrer and many others share their memories of creating the show in this in-depth piece covering the sensational and tumultuous evolution of Twin Peaks in four parts: "Northwest Passage: Creating the Pilot," "Freshly Squeezed: Creating Season One," "Where We’re From: Creating the Music" and "Into the Night: Creating Season Two."

Co-creator and four-time Academy Award nominee David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan and Mädchen Amick take an amusing look back at the series in "A Slice of Lynch," an all-new get-together of friends over piping hot coffee and sweet cherry pie.

"Return to Twin Peaks" follows a group of devoted fans to the 2006 Twin Peaks Festival, where the show’s faithful have been regularly gathering for costume contests, celebrity sightings, trivia games and other wildness in the woods outside of Seattle. And an Interactive Map allows viewers to revisit the show’s unforgettable locations as they appear today…and how to find them in real life.

Thought to have been lost forever, a selection of deleted scenes has been unearthed for this collection and approved by David Lynch, offering viewers additional clues and background on some of their favorite characters and locations in the series.

The collection showcases the phenomenon that was Twin Peaks with such archival nuggets as the Saturday Night Live opening monologue and Twin Peaks sketch featuring Kyle MacLachlan, the "Falling" music video featuring Julee Cruise, the Richard Beymer behind-the-scenes photo gallery, original network promo spots and many more rare gems!

Newly remastered from the original negative and personally approved by David Lynch, the episodes have never looked better. Moreover, viewers will have the option of enjoying the episodes in either new 5.1 Surround Sound or the original 2.0 network television audio.

Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition is a 10-disc collection presented in full screen with English 5.1 Stereo Surround and English 2.0 Stereo. A content break-down follows…

Disc 1: Pilot
Log Lady Intro For Pilot
International Version With Alternate Ending

Disc 2: Episodes 1-4
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc 3: Episodes 5-7
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc 4: Episodes 8-10
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc 5: Episodes 11-14
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc 6: Episodes 15-18
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc 7: Episodes 19-22
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc 8: Episodes 23-26
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc 9: Episodes 27-29
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode
Deleted Scenes (4 scenes)
Production Documentary

Disc 10: Special Features
A Slice of Lynch
Northwest Passage: Creating The Pilot
Freshly Squeezed: Creating Season 1
Where We’re From: Creating The Music
Into The Night: Creating Season 2
Saturday Night Live Featuring Kyle MacLachlan (Monologue and Twin Peaks Sketch)
Return To Twin Peaks
Interactive Map (8 Pods)
"Falling" Music Video
Georgia Coffee Commercials (5 Spots)
Image Galleries
The Richard Beymer Gallery
Unit Photography
Twin Peaks Trading Cards
TV spots
Premiere Spots (8 Spots)
There’s No Place Like Home Spot
1-900 Promo Ad
T-Shirt Ad
Holiday Greeting
Patriot Greeting

Source: DVDTimes

Happiness

"Todd Solondz's Happiness is a film that perplexes its viewers, even those who admire it, because it challenges the ways we attempt to respond to it" wrote critic Roger Ebert in his Chicago Sun-Times review on october 23d in 1998 and he adds "Is it a portrait of desperate human sadness? Then why are we laughing? Is it an ironic comedy? Then why its tenderness with these lonely people? Is it about depravity? Yes, but why does it make us suspect, uneasily, that the depraved are only seeking what we all seek, but with a lack of ordinary moral vision?

In a film that looks into the abyss of human despair, there is the horrifying suggestion that these characters may not be grotesque exceptions, but may in fact be part of the mainstream of humanity. Whenever a serial killer or a sex predator is arrested, we turn to the paper to find his neighbors saying that the monster 'seemed just like anyone else.' Happiness is a movie about closed doors--apartment doors, bedroom doors and the doors of the unconscious. It moves back and forth between several stories, which often link up. It shows us people who want to be loved and who never will be - because of their emotional incompetence and arrested development. There are lots of people who do find love and fulfillment, but they are not in this movie."

"Joy (Jane Adams) is the classic Solondz misfit - think Dawn Weiner in Dollhouse all grown up. Turning 30 and directionless, she has a perpetual deer-in-headlights look, a frustrated songwriter toiling away at telephone sales. But she's not a total loser; she has the power to dump her fat, melancholy suitor (Jon Lovitz in a great cameo) as the film opens.

Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is a beautiful, famous writer whose problem is that everyone loves her ("You don't know how exhausting it is to be wanted all the time," she says). Then there's Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), a housewife who tells everyone she "has it all" - two kids and, joyously, no sex with her psychologist husband."

I'm still waiting for the perfect dvd edition of this perfect but politically incorrect movie. Happiness celebrated its dvd premiere way back in 1999 from Trimark Pictures (Review). New Line re-issued it as part of their Signature Series in 2003 but with no remarkable extras, picture and sound quality. If you take a look at the dvd being published down under by Good Machine or in the Netherlands there's nothing worth writing about them. Finally, the german edition of Todd Solondz' movie has been out of print for several years. But at least you can catch the UK version from Entertainment Video which provides an artificial menu style.

Candid

Beach

Event

Keep Smiling - August 1999

Charlie's Angels

It would have been a sweet taste of choice to cast these three ladies as Charlie's Angels but unfortunately only Lucy Liu (right) got the job whereas Marla Sokoloff (left) and our lovely Lara Flynn Boyle didn't. Sigh!

The Practice and Marie Claire

For the April issue of Marie Claire magazine in 2001 Lara Flynn Boyle and her co-stars of the award-winning tv serie The Practice posed together for a promotional photo shoot.

LA Auto Show

In December 2006 Lara Flynn Boyle joined the Los Angeles Auto Show and she seemed to be interested in buying a new car, doesn't she?

Candid

Lara Flynn Boyle as seen at a Santa Monica restaurant, Nov. 11, 2006.

Working out

Random

Charity

Lara Flynn Boyle, Rachel Nasuti, Carmen Electra at the grand opening
of the Ken Paves Salon in Beverly Hills, CA September 29, 2006

The Practice

Finally, it's been arrived: The dvd boxset of The Practice. Please find enclosed some impressions of the artwork, the menus and the special feature of this edition starring - of course - Lara Flynn Boyle:

Artificial Style

Credits to the original publisher. I found these at babes-board.ch.