directed by David Lynch
France / USA 1992

"We Live Inside a Dream"


 The television show began famously with the discovery of high-school coed Laura Palmer's (Sheryl Lee) plastic-wrapped body. Fire Walk with Me is the story of how she got that way. It is a necessarily grim story as the promiscuous and increasingly hysterical Laura juggles two teenage boyfriends, bad boy Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and sensitive James Hurley (James Marshall); S&M playmates Jacques Renault (Walter Olkewicz) and Leo Johnson (Eric DaRe); and the many men she picks up while hooking. That list doesn't include "Bob" (Frank Silva), the man who she claims has been sneaking in through her bedroom window since she was 12 to rape her, and who she is beginning to suspect is actually her father, Leland (Ray Wise).

Like the series, Fire Walk with Me is filled with symbolism and dream imagery, much of it connected to the show's Man from Another Place (Michael J. Anderson) and the Red Room. In the film, the line between the everyday world and the Red Room is hazy with Laura meeting two of the room's denizens, Mrs. Tremont (Frances Bay) and her grandson; and FBI agents Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), Gordon Cole (Lynch), and Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) receiving a visitation from long-lost agent Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie) who claims to have visited there.

Excerpt from Pam grady's review on Reel.com found HERE

Posters

Theatrical Release: June 3rd, 1992

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DVD Comparison:

New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. mk2 (French) - Region 2 - PAL

Big thanks to Guillaume Mareri for all the Screen Caps!

(New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian) - Region 1 - NTSC - LEFT vs. mk2 (French) - Region 2 - PAL - RIGHT)

DVD Box Covers

    

Same as the New Line Home Entertainment Edition

   

Distribution

New Line - Alliance Atlantis

Region 1 - NTSC

 mk2
Region 2 - PAL
Runtime 2:14:42 2:09:08 (4% PAL speedup)
Video

1.85:1 Original Aspect Ratio

16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 6.60 mb/s
NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s

1.85:1 Original Aspect Ratio

16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 6.72 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate:

New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian)

 

Bitrate:

mk2 (French)

 

Audio English DTS, DD 5.1, DS 2.0 & French DS 2.0

English DTS, DD 5.1 & French DD 5.1
Subtitles English, French, none French (removable), none
Features Release Information:
Studio: New Line - Alliance Atlantis

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 1.85:1

Edition Details:
• Theatrical Trailer
• Documentary

DVD Release Date: February 26, 2002
Amaray

Chapters 41

Release Information:
Studio: mk2

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 1.85:1

Edition Details:
• Collector Booklet (40 pages)
• Electronic Press Kit (interviews) 20'
 

DVD Release Date: December 8, 2004
Digi-pack

Chapters 59

 

 

Comments

VIDEO

The Region 1 is unquestionably sharper, but has some excess blue ( see the TV screen in 3rd capture) and it is slightly zoomed on with some picture being lost on all 4 edges. Saying that though skin tones and contrast levels are far superior on the NTSC edition and that is our recommendation.

AUDIO

Both have a DTS English track. But the sound on Jacques Renault' bar scene is still far to low, and not subtitled on the PAL edition (if French subs are not displayed). The NTSC does offer an additional 2.0 track for the original English.


EXTRAS

There are too few. I'm still waiting for a sizeable edition (announced by MK2 for 2005) with a David Lynch's commentary track, but the PAL release has a 40 page booklet and some interviews. 

-Guillaume and Gary Tooze

 

 

 




DVD Menus

(New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian) - Region 1 - NTSC - LEFT vs. mk2 (French) - Region 2 - PAL - RIGHT)


 

 

 

Subtitle sample

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Screen Captures

(New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian) - Region 1 - NTSC - TOP vs. mk2 (French) - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM)

 

 

(New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian) - Region 1 - NTSC - TOP vs. mk2 (French) - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM)

 

 

(New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian) - Region 1 - NTSC - TOP vs. mk2 (French) - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM)

 

 

(New Line - Alliance Atlantis (Canadian) - Region 1 - NTSC - TOP vs. mk2 (French) - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM)

 

 

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Report Card:

Image:

NTSC

Sound:

NTSC - original 2.0 option
Extras: PAL
Menu: -

 

DVD Box Covers

    

Same as the New Line Home Entertainment Edition

   

Distribution

New Line - Alliance Atlantis

Region 1 - NTSC

 mk2
Region 2 - PAL

 



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