MOVIE BARS

*Bang Bang Bar 

 

The humble Bar, a place to meet friends, drown sorrows and shoot the breeze. In the movies though a Bar can be a place of drama, intrigue and humour. There are famous Bars; Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca for example and then there are the not so famous Bars, Bars in which plot and exposition are the fulcrum. So join me for a quiet drink in a few movie Bars.



Torchy’s

 

The Last Resort

Bob's Country Bunker

Vroman's

The Purple Pit

 

The Titty Twister

Golden Horn

Ratskeller

 

Trees Lounge

The Bamboo Lounge

Tony's Bar

 

Sonny's Bar

A Bar in Santa Rio

A bounty hunter enters a dimly-lit saloon looking for Josey Wales and announces, "You're wanted, Wales." Josey replies "Reckon I'm right popular.

You a bounty hunter?" The gunman answers, “Man’s got to make a living” to which Josey replies, “Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.”

 

**A Redneck Bar

*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

48 Hours
Total Recall

The Blues Brothers
48 Hours
The Nutty Professor
From Dusk til Dawn
Barfly
Inglourious Basterds
Trees Lounge
Goodfellas
Mean Streets
A Bronx Tale
The Outlaw Josey Wales
**Near Dark

 

GREAT INTROS #12 TWIN PEAKS

http://youtu.be/eSSJTPEMmdU

Twin Peaks

The strains of Falling (Instrumental) by Angelo Badalamenti introduce us not only to the town of Twin Peaks but take us gently and serenely into it's unique, dark and mysterious world.

Lynch's vastly underrated movie Twin Peaks:Fire walk with me featured a credit sequence that was almost a counterpoint to the TV shows serenity; again featuring the music of Badalamenti it is haunting and disturbing; much like the film.

http://youtu.be/LasYely-11k
Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me 

Welcome to Twin Peaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lkvrMa27c

Cherry Pie, , The Log Lady, Killer Bob, Agent Cooper, Sheriff Truman, The Red Room, The Beautiful Audrey , Laura, Josie and Donna, Prostitution, the backwards talking Dwarf, Murder, Obsession, Hit men, The FBI, Giants with revelations and Damn fine coffee.

These things characterised the surreal world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, a landmark in Television is released in a definitive gold version this month. From the opening bars of Angelo Badalamenti’s score we were drawn into the town of Twin Peaks to both be immersed into and bear witness to unfathomable events both horrifying and humorous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PcoMrwEa5o

David Lynch incorporated elements of improvisation that came about by accident, into his world view and the narrative defies pigeon holing. The casting was a split between Lynch discoveries and , prior to Tarantino, the use of veteran actors. The results made for must see TV, particularly during Season 1 but less so as season 2 stumbled to its conclusion. The thing about Twin Peaks was that it seeped into a public consciousness that, at the time, was extremely rare for what was essentially a cult BBC 2 show.

Twin Peaks incorporated the paranormal, horror, oblique comedic overtones, melodrama, Murder mystery and Soap Opera to tremendous effect. Due to it’s success other shows came in it’s wake attempting to subvert the mainstream, notably the unsuccessful Wild Palms, but these shows lacked the guiding force of David Lynch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_vlZha7bg

Lynch remains an enigmatic figure and the movie that followed; Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me is greatly under rated. In Film terms David Lynch is one of the few genuinely unique movie makers and this foray into TV was an inspiring example of how to challenge a TV audience and probably led the way for the rise of HBO.Damn fine TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmS29HNc5fI