Bit by bit, I fell back into the world of Twin Peaks and David Lynch in the spring of 2014. At first this growing fascination hummed beneath the surface and in the background but within a few months, it dominated all of my work. After a year of breadth, this was the time to plumb depths: not only my return to a filmmaker whom I'd absorbed in the early months of my site, but a return to writing analytical essays and editing video montages, all with a laser-sharp focus on a particular area.
Subjects include reviews of every single Lynch feature, my extensive media round-up of early Twin Peaks coverage, an ongoing conversation on Fire Walk With Me with Tony Dayoub, a visual tribute to an unforgettable killer's reveal, and a final round-up of albums with emphasis on early nineties grunge and early teens hip-hop - and, of course, some Twin Peaks music.
Take This Baby and Deliver It to Death: a video tribute to David Lynch, my highlight of this period, was delivered at the midpoint of David Lynch Month in June; it conveys the director's treatment of abuse and denial in his early films, and even tells a kind of cohesive story, by weaving together many of his most troubling and haunting moments.
MARCH
What I listened to in the second month of the year
Visual examples of repetition and variation from a film that's full of both
All kinds of plans, soon to be delayed, transformed, or altogether abandoned in favor of a growing obsession with Twin Peaks
My first Twin Peaks post in four years was a visual tribute to the killer's reveal episode
The last listening post includes early nineties grunge and recent hip-hop
APRIL
Martin Scorsese offers superficiality as spectacle - is there a "there" there?
My favorite Jesus film is this late sixties TV play by Dennis Potter
Interviewing a filmmaker about his out-of-time action hero
I contributed some old reviews to the first in a series of e-books about directors
MAY
And so it begins. My conversation with Tony starts with the history of Laura and the TV show, launching two months of David Lynch material...
The Fire Walk With Me conversation continues as Tony explores his own Twin Peaks fandom and how Teresa Banks reveals Lynch's aim
I begin to dig into the mystical side of Fire Walk With Me in my reply to Tony
To conclude our conversation, Tony discusses how Fire Walk With Me and Lynch's fascination with its heroine changed the course of his career
JUNE
My history with David Lynch, a bunch of screenshots, and an introduction to a full month of very lengthy Lynch posts
Gathering samples from over a hundred media responses to Twin Peaks from 1989 to 2014 - news reports, reviews, interviews, scholarly analyses, blog posts, and more
My first video essay in a year and a half, a non-narrated montage exploring how Lynch handles themes of abuse in his early work - this remains one of my strongest pieces of work
One of my most ambitious pieces, a complete anthology of full-length reviews of every David Lynch feature, with shorter reviews of his TV episodes, shorts, videos, and commercials
A comprehensive essay examining how David Lynch's work evolved narratively, thematically, and stylistically over half a century - this concluded "David Lynch Month" on the site
(I covered this period on Episode 19 of my Patreon podcast)
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