Hello! I’m Mark Olsen . Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Arguably the biggest news of the week came from an interview in the British film magazine Sight and Sound that director David Lynch has been diagnosed with emphysema and it has curtailed his ability to circulate in the world.
“I’m homebound, whether I like it or not,” he said. Maker of such bracingly singular films as “Blue Velvet,” “Wild at Heart,” “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive,” Lynch received an honorary Academy Award in 2010. His last feature film was 2006’s “Inland Empire,” but in 2017 he released the 18-episode series of “Twin Peaks: The Return.
” Via social media , the 78-year-old Lynch said he quit smoking two years ago, adding, “I have to say that I enjoyed smoking very much, and I do love tobacco — the smell of it, lighting cigarettes on fire, smoking them — but there is a price to pay for this enjoyment, and the price for me is emphysema.” Lynch continued, “Recently I had many tests and the good news is that I am in excellent shape except for emphysema. I am filled with happiness, and I will never retire.
” 50 years of ‘The Conversation’ In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation ” is being re-released in a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative. While Coppola has tinkered with and reconfigured many of his films for re-release, “The Conversati.