Currentfilm.com has published another review of the recently released dvd boxset of The Practice - Volume One starring Lara Flynn Boyle:
"VIDEO: The Practice is presented by Fox in 1.33:1 full-frame. The presentation quality is about equal to broadcast quality, although there are some minor concerns present. Sharpness and detail are not noteworthy and the picture can sometimes appear a tad soft, but the picture never appeared so soft as to be hazy or blurry. Some minor grain is seen, but no other issues were seen on the presentation. Colors remain a tad subdued by intent and seem accurately presented.
SOUND: The series is presented in Dolby 2.0. Audio is crisp and clear, with no distortion or other issues.
EXTRAS: Only a brief featurette, "Setting up the Practice", which combines new and old interviews with clips to provide an overview of the development and first season of the show. Hopefully, future sets will provide more in the way of supplemental features."
Final Thoughts: I'm not as much of a fan of The Practice as the show that followed it (Boston Legal), but that's not to say that The Practice doesn't make for riveting TV, as the series boasts a marvelous ensemble cast, sharp dialogue and fast pacing. The DVD presentation offers fine audio/video quality, but minimal extras. Recommended.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The Dark Backward on DVD
"Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Dark Backward (Special Edition) on 21st August 2007 priced at $14.94 SRP. Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Wayne Newton and Rob Lowe star in this bizarre cult comedy classic written and directed by Adam Rifkin (Detroit Rock City) about Marty the garbage man who grows a third arm on his back.
Originally released theatrically in 1991, the film has gone on to reach cult status with fans of the comedy and fantasy genres. The DVD will be loaded with all-new bonus material including a Q&A with Bill Paxton, Judd Nelson and Adam Rifkin (from 2006), all-new Audio Commentary, never-before-seen Deleted Scenes and a Behind the Scenes featurette. " (Source: DVDTimes)
Features include
- 1.85:1 Non-Anamorphic Widescreen
- English DD2.0 Stereo
- English and French subtitles
- Cast and Crew Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- 15th Anniversary Q&A featuring Bill Paxton, Judd Nelson, Adam Rifkin and Brad Wyman
- Blump’s Squeezable Documentary
- ”Catch My Dreams” Clip Compilation
- Cannes Promo Shorts
Sunday, June 17, 2007
The Practice Photo Album
As The Practice - Volume 1 is out on dvd I want to share with you my picture collection of this wonderful and energetic drama serie which is worth buying and always watching and re-watching. Credits to the original publishers.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
The Practice on DVD - First Reviews
While surfing and researching I found the first dvd-reviews of The Practice in which Lara Flynn Boyle stars as assistant disctrict attorney Helen Gamble. Blog Critics Magazine writes about the boxset: "Called The Practice – Volume 1 (instead of Season 1) for a reason, the 4-disc set hold 13 episodes which did not actually air in the order you’ll find them in here. Originally written as a complete season, only six episodes aired before summer hiatus. The remaining seven episodes were interspersed throughout the second season. Here you’ll find them back to back, which is far more effective."What about picture and sound quality? Please read the following lines by DVDFanatic: "The best that this set features is slightly better than broadcast quality. The video is rough and grainy, and the audio a simple Dolby Digital Stereo mix. Presented in the show’s original aspect ratio of Full Frame (1.33:1), this transfer is nothing worth noting. Just better than taping the show off air, this is ultimately an underwhelming transfer." And last but not least some external thoughts about the bonus features written by Canmag.com: "The Practice has a featurette on creating the show. Kelley, cast and crew speak about the show's mission statement, characters and the aesthetic of the series. It comes from old EPK interviews, because of the locations (and copyright date), but it's still relevant. It's a solid 18 minute piece."
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Red Rock West
"Red Rock West is a diabolical movie that exists sneakily between a western and a thriller, between a film noir and a black comedy", wrote Roger Ebert about John Dahl's masterpiece in 1994. Please find enclosed three collages I found in which Lara Flynn Boyle shows some of her talent. Thanks to the original publisher for creating such a beautiful artwork.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Target Couture
On may 11th in 2006 Lara Flynn Boyle entered the red carpet for the Target Couture by Intuition Launch. Credits to the original publisher.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Men in Black 2
Lara Flynn Boyle and director Barry Sonnenfeld during a special screening event of Men in Black II in 2002. She seems to have fun, doesn't she?
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Susan's Plan on DVD
On July 20th Lara Flynn Boyle's movie Susan's Plan (1998) which has also been released under the obscurious title of Dying to Get Rich will be published in Germany on dvd. Among the bonus features you find: Photo Gallery, Behind the Scenes-Featurette, Interviews and Trailer. It seems to be a copy of the british dvd edition of this John Landis-comedy. Aspect ratio of the picture is 1,66:1 (anamorphically enhanced), german and english dolby digital sound 2.0 accompanied by german subtitles. In the US the dvd seems to be unavailable at the moment as the amazon marketplace prizes are highly immoral (starting from 52 bucks). Please find enclosed some official pictures of this release.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Insatiable canceled?
According to the geman fan-based but well-informed website serienjunkies.de I found out that Insatiable, the new planned Twin Peaks look-a-like serie, has been cancelled by Showtime. There's only a pilot episode left shot around christmas last year. The results might have been too disappointing for the tv production company. If you have any news about this cancellation please let me know.For some more information concerning Insatiable please read the following news coming from reuters.com a few months ago:
"The pilot of Showtime’s new show ‘Insatiable’ will be chock full of known celebrities if negotiations go well. The comedy, whose cast already includes Peter Facinelli and Beth Riesgraf will center on four families living in a smalltown and struggling with a variety of addictions.
Reuters.com reported that the network is currently working on casting Andie MacDowell, Lara Flynn Boyle and Andrea Martin. MacDowell’s character will play a glamorous woman who married into money and spends most of her time shopping on eBay. Boyle’s character will play MacDowell’s sister who gets off on shoplifting. Martin’s character is a single mother-slash-accountant who enjoys gambling her money away.
The creators of the show describe it as being set to the tone of ‘Twin Peaks’. All of the reports thus far have only mentioned casting for the pilot episode."
Sunday, June 3, 2007
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
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
Saturday, June 2, 2007
On Tour
Smoking, talking. Lara Flynn Boyle is on tour. Nice jeans by the way. Credits to the original publisher.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Lara's Theme
For the US Magazine Lara Flynn Boyle opened her mind and observer James Greenberg wrote a nice article about it. Published in march 1993. Please find enclosed two scanned pages of the result. I apologize for the average quality but I only have a b/w copy of the article at my disposal.
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