WILD AT HEART

WILD AT HEART (1990) David Lynch

When WILD AT HEART came out I was already obsessed with Twin Peaks. I loved WILD AT HEART, with reservations. I've seen it one other time since first seeing it all those years ago. I was very young then, so I missed a lot of things.

Around 1989, 1990, 1991, I was very interested in art, especially visual art. I didn't care about the story as much as I cared about how things looked. I was into the Madonna videos that were dirceted by David Fincher and Mary Lambert and I was hearing Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Sugarcubes for the first time (I wish that The Pixies and Throwing Muses were on my radar back then but I didn't find out about them until a couple years later).

Anyway, after all these years, I still apprceiate the visual aspect of WILD AT HEART. And I love Harry Dean Stanton and Diane Ladd- the scene where she's got lipstick all over her face and the music that goes along are still amazing. And the things that bothered me the first time around still make me uncomfortable. I hate when they come across Sherlyn Fenn (it's unbelievably sad) and I hate when the clerk at the feed store gets his hand shot off and the dog runs away with it. It's meant to be funny and it's light-years from funny.

Can we talk about Chris Isaak for a minute? He's had an amazing career. By the way, I think he's great. My favorites are his San Francisco Days and Forever Blue. Anyway, the list of directors that he's worked with, or been associated with, is pretty neat. He had songs in Blue Velvet and WILD AT HEART (plus David Lynch directed one of the videos for "Wicked Game"; Herb Ritts directed the second, better-known one) and he had a role in Fire Walk With Me. Jonathan Demme game him small roles in Married To The Mob and Silence Of The Lambs and Isaak was on the Married soundtrack. His song "Two Hearts" was on the soundtrack for True Romance and Stanley Kubrick choose his "Baby Did A Bad, Bad Thing" for the film and trailers for Eyes Wide Shut. Then he had a starring role in John Waters's A Dirty Shame.