Buddy of mine dated the daughter of a longtime Lynch collaborator, and said that Lynch would just send her encouraging e-mails when he would hear that she was down or having trouble with work.

Ah, The Sounds Of Early Cinema! Solid book. However, in most places, I think film exhibition carried over local theatrical conventions. Anyway, the important thing is that it developed as "the only thing people were paying attention," while TV, once the novelty wore off, had to develop as "the thing people should pay…

You're too kind.

Subject synergy!

Here's a fun lesson about the power of a viewer's imagination: You never see the needle go in her chest. It's one of two very effective, editing / misdirection-based low-budget effects in that scene. (Vincent "crashing" in the car in the side of the house is the other.)

Uh, like almost all American TV series of the time, Twin Peaks was shot on 35mm. It's sharp as hell. Here's a screencap from the recent boxed set release: http://images2.static-blura…

I added "full-length" for clarity. Thanks for pointing that out.

Aldrich was in fact one of the original subjects of the auteur theory, as he was a big favorite of the "Hitcho-Hawksian" Cahiers clique.

He actually uses those kinds of close-ups and stares in all of his Fujimoto-shot films. There are even some in Married To The Mob.

I didn't write the hed on this one.

Cinematographers of actual Sandler films:

Can you guess the Rapace character's worst fear? (Okay, it's spiders.)

I kinda love Cat Chaser. Only seen it on the old DVD, which is open matte and has the effect of making it look a lot more like a color noir.

And Walken's really good in it. (All three leads are, actually.)

Yes. And I somehow forgot to mention it.

It's quite an awesome film. I wish it were available in better quality.

IDK, it appears to Google pretty easily.

Cumberbatch was originally set to star, but dropped out. He was replaced by Hunnam.

The funny thing is, the lack of emotional speechifying is the thing people often complain about with Gray's movies. His movies are fairly quiet and short on expository dialogue. What you can't tell is that in the scene they use, he's actually shouting over a jeering crowd.

Tacho (as in the tachometer that measures RPM your car) is the prefix for things related to speed.