Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me finally has the reputation it deserved

polygon.com:

When Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992, director David Lynch had been experiencing a period of mainstream cultural interest in his art. This was a strange position for a surrealist such as himself to be in, but then again, his career never followed a predictable trajectory. After his independent filmEraserhead (1977) took off on the midnight movie circuit, he was brought over to Hollywood with Mel Brooks as his personal cheerleader and producer. He was then Oscar nominated forThe Elephant Man in 1980, and was offered the gig of directing the thirdStar Wars film, which he turned down to directDune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure. Lynch believedDune taught him an important lesson about filmmaking — he realized he didn’t want to make big movies, and the mainstream was never going to afford him the complete creative control he so cherished when makingEraserhead.

But the mainstream wasn’t finished with Lynch, and fate would have it that he’d fall in love with Isabella Rossellini on his next film,Blue Velvet (1986), where she stars. Lynch was suddenly of tabloid interest, because Rossellini was Hollywood royalty — the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. Their coupling wasn’t meant to last, but during their relationship, Lynch became a mainstream phenomenon and a household name when his television pilot for Twin Peaks exploded in popularity. He and co-creator Mark Frost captured lightning in a bottle, but the show’s mass appeal burned out like a falling star, vanishing almost as soon as it appeared. With pressure from ABC executives to reveal who killed Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), Lynch and Frost acquiesced, and in doing so the