Twin Peaks (TV Show)

A Bitter End

Cinema Weirdité

Bistro World

Atmosphere trumps cuisine at Cosmo Rouge

Strange World

Get in touch with Blue Velvet

Fantasyland

Escaflowne plays like anime stereotype

Hollywood Hells

David Lynch crashes on Mulholland Drive, but the wreckage is smashing

Garageland

Do What You Want (Foodchain)

Evil Twin

Sam Raimi peaked long ago, and The Gift proves that now he's coasting downhill

Fest intentions

USA Film Festival: Amargosa, Committed, The Devil's Swing, Dropping Out, Hamlet, Lush, The Natural History of the Chicken, Split Decision, The Target Shoots First, Steal This Movie

Playing it Straight

David Lynch, The King of Weird, shows his sunny side

Sadness on the steppes

Xiu Xiu shows the sorry fate of one teenage girl during and after China's Cultural Revolution

A better mousetrap

The wonderful worlds that Walt built are rendered at the Modern in Fort Worth

Asian invasion

As the Hong Kong movie industry collapses, scads of Chinese filmmakers and actors are landing big jobs in Hollywood

Stake tartare

John Carpenter sinks his fangs into the screen's vampire tradition

On the fringes

Most of the year's best films were from the outside looking in

Working on a building

Last Beat is the local scene's full-service stop

Events for the week

Last Beat is the local scene's full-service stop

A bumpy ride

David Lynch barrels down the Lost Highway and crashes into twisted brilliance

Ghost in the machine

The documentary Theremin captures--with occasional success--the surreal moods of an electronic pioneer