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

Twin Peaks Trio

The following picture was published on the front page of the Rolling Stone magazine back in 1990 and shows three beautiful women, starting from the right side: Mädchen Amick, Sherilyn Fenn, and of course, Lara Flynn Boyle. It was taken as a promotional shot for the mystery hit of Twin Peaks.

Please find enclosed the excerpt of the magazine article concerning Lara as I've found it on an unoffical David Lynch website. By the way, I've never read a sentence about Lara's most adorable feature like "Her face is a serene study in freckled pointillism"! Here we go.

"Donna the good girl gets the rhubarb

James Dean ate here, and then he died. Lore has it that James Dean consumed his last meal at the Du-Par's coffee shop, in Los Angeles's Farmer's Market. A car wreck ensued shortly thereafter. True or not, Du-Par's does pie awfully well, and Lara Flynn Boyle has made it clear that she would like to eat some. She arrives in a new red BMW, as well as in a wide-brimmed hat similar to the one she wore as Donna Hayward at Laura Palmer's funeral. She is, it seems, a hat girl. She is twenty, and her face is a serene study in freckled pointillism. She laughs easily, a laugh not unlike the bark of a seal, which isn't as bad as you'd imagine. (We like it, in fact.) She looks comfortable in a coffee-shop booth, as though she had dimpled the vinyl cushions of many. "I'm Midwestern," she says, and in saying this, she has said enough.

She hates cherry pie. "I hate cherry pie," says Lara Flynn, sweetly, but getting her point across. "I'm gonna have a piece of rhubarb pie." She would prefer strawberry rhubarb, always plentiful and sublime back in Chicago, her hometown, but Du-Par's cannot deliver the goods. We also request wedges of lemon meringue and cherry, despite her remonstrations about the latter. "Really hate it," she says.

Donna weeps because she needs sex. Some basic differences between Donna and the actress who portrays her: The actress smokes heavily and is game and playful; the character has no questionable habits (besides crying frequently) and is somber and conflicted. Donna Hayward was Laura Palmer's best friend, and now she is in love with Laura's secret biker boyfriend, James Hurley. "Donna was a little sad, dull, boring, lifeless and comatose," says Lara Flynn. "But there's a lot of fire underneath. She's one of those girls who took her teenage years a little bit too seriously. Everything Donna does is very urgent. It's life or death. Like Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass." She feels better about Donna's condition this season. "Something fun is happening," she says, teasingly. "Something's going on."

She lost her virginity and never knew it. Lara Flynn says Donna is pure and chaste, albeit frustrated and horny. The men who created her think otherwise. "We don´t even know for sure yet," says Lynch, meaning she probably isn't unspoiled, as it were. "Donna's sort of a mysterious one." Says coexecutive producer Mark Frost. "I don't think anybody's all good. My guess is she's not a virgin."

We later inform Lara Flynn of this. "Really?" she says, stunned.

She is sleeping with Special Agent Cooper. To date, Donna and preternaturally awestruck pie enthusiast Dale Cooper of the FBI have appeared in only one Twin Peaks scene together. And yet in what passes for real life, they cohabit, they share lodging, they are intimate. That is, actors Kyle MacLachlan and Lara Flynn Boyle are conducting a celebrity romance. "Today's our anniversary," she says, like a girl in love. "A year and a half." She calls Cooper "the sexiest geek" and says MacLachlan does not diverge much from his alter ego. "He's just like Agent Cooper," she says. "He says, 'Look at those trees!' Or he'll really marvel over a good cup of coffee, you know?"

Her dreams are sweet and sticky. "It's like I'm having the most beautiful dream and the most terrible nightmare all at once," Donna once said. Lara Flyn, who had her share of nightmares after playing the victim in the TV movie The Preppie Murder, says this about her nocturnal life: "Do you remember that Marshmallow Fluff stuff? That spread? This will sound funny, but I've had this recurring dream since I was eight years old that I'm stuck in Fluff and can't get out. And there's black-and-white TV static all around me. It's frightening."

She tells her secrets. "I paint my dog's toe-nails," she says. "For the fun of it." She cannot tie a cherry stem with her tongue, but she will let her dog eat food that is inside her mouth. She is dyslexic and acutely shy, a combination that prevents her from going into grocery stores or restaurants alone. She has been known to perform Academy Award acceptance speeches in front of the bathroom mirror, clutching a tootbrush. "Really gross, huh?" she says. She was named for the Julie Christie character in Dr. Zhivago and is the unfortunate owner of many music boxes that play "Lara's Theme." She drives atrociously and can wiggle her ears upon request.

Mysteries of David Lynch, director, part two. "He once came over to me and said, 'I want you to purr like a pussycat in this scene,'" she says. "He wanted me to do the whole thing purring." Another time, she says, "He came up to me before my close-up and said, 'Imagine yourself as a fawn in the forest.'"

Of pie reviews and motives for murder.

"The lemon meringue is the best," she says. "The rhubarb is a little too bitter, although I have a stuffy nose and couldn't really taste it that well. And I'm not even touching cherry." As for whether she killed Laura Palmer: "I don´t know," she says, which is a big shock. "But did you ever have a best friend in school who was always just a little more popular than you? And you were in the shadow? And you couldn't stand any more of it? I think maybe Donna had that."

Details of Publication: Rolling Stone, No 588, October 4th 1990, p.68-71, 170

Twin Peaks, Pilot

"Twin Peaks in my opinion probably marked one of the highest points of television drama", writes Mark Boydell in his dvd-review of the tv serie published by DVD Times. And he adds: "it may be the last time we'll see a great director [David Lynch] being given full artistic control over as wide a canvas as a TV series and the result is flabbergasting. The characters are fully developed yet unusually interesting; the setting - the true lead character IMO - becomes so familiar to us it seems like our back garden (albeit a very scary one) and it features some of the most memorable scenes ever committed to celluloid: who can erase the Red Lounge and the Man from Another Place from their memory?"

So, diving into the Twin Peaks universe makes a lot of fun. Rewatching this serie it comes to my mind how strongly Lara Flynn Boyle is acting as Donna Hayward, the best friend of the late Laura Palmer. With this post followed by many others in the future I provide screencaps of the best scenes starring Lara. I apologize for the not-so-good caps quality. But unfortunately, the dvd version from Paramount Home Entertainment doesn't provide a ... let me say ... excellent picture quality. Anyway, let's start with the Pilot of Twin Peaks.