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It was an historic night at the Governors Awards on Sunday, and not just because Lina Wertmuller wants Oscar to go through a gender change. Ninety-one-year old Wertmuller was honored in part as a ground-breaker by being the first Oscar-nominated female director. Geena Davis took the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award…

In television, the TV series role Robert Forster is probably best known for is in starring turn in David Lynch’s 2017 Twin Peaks revival. It was 25 years in the making. Oscar-nominated Forster, who died Friday at age 78, revealed in 2016 that Lynch had approached him to co-star in the original 1990 Twin Peaks series…

The AFI Conservatory, one of the crown jewels of the American Film Institute, celebrated its 50th anniversary in style Thursday night at the place where it all started, the fabled Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. One of the first “colleges” for filmmakers (there were only four at the time), it opened at Greystone…

Jennifer Fox has been set to return to produce the 11th Annual Governors Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy President David Rubin announced today. Honorary Awards will be presented to director David Lynch, actor Wes Studi and director Lina Wertmüller, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian…

In another show of increasing diversity for all things Oscar, actors Wes Studi and Geena Davis and directors David Lynch and Lina Wertmuller are the winners of the 11th Annual Governors Awards. The honors, as voted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Board of Governors in a special Saturday session, were…

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on June 13 as Emmy nomination-round voting began. After David Lynch’s Twin Peaks bowed on ABC in April 1990, it became a cultural phenomenon, producing two Emmys and 18 nominations. All these years later, Lynch is back in the running with three nominations for Showtime’s…

Director of photography Peter Deming, who shot the entire 18-episode series of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return, has been working with the Los Angeles-based auteur since his ABC summer comedy series On the Air. In addition, Deming has worked on Lynch’s HBO series Hotel Room and the movies Lost Highway, Inland Empir…

Poldark and Valley Girl star Josh Whitehouse will lead cast in blockchain outfit SingularDTV’s The Happy Worker alongside Thomas Haden Church, Colm Meaney and Meagan Holder. Production is under way in Utah on the movie, which is executive-produced by David Lynch and is being directed by Lynch’s long-time collaborator…

It’s a fine day for Laura Dern, who is celebrating not just her own Emmy nomination, but also nods for Ted Danson—the godfather to her children—and David Lynch, with whom she most recently reunited for Twin Peaks. Of her own nod, Dern says, “I’m grateful that The Tale has been acknowledged because it gives more of a…

After a 26 year wait in between seasons, a Cannes Film Festival premiere and a marquee cast that included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ashley Judd, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, David Koechner, and of course Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, Showtime’s third season of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return was passed up by Emmy voters…

Nothing in David Lynch’s world is ever as it seems — “What year is this? as Twin Peaks: The Return might say — so Lynch’s not-so-fast-Mr. President missive today shouldn’t seem as shocking as, say, a winged frog creeping into the mouth of a sleeping woman. After the Twin Peaks co-creator recently was quoted saying…

During a campaign rally in West Columbia S.C. for Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, Donald Trump continued his opus of bashing late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, but added  Jimmy Fallon to his hit list after the Tonight Show host essentially apologized to the public for having him on his show three years…