Films by Twin Peaks episode directors - The Wizard, Frances, Pay the Ghost, Heaven (TWIN PEAKS CINEMA podcast #4/LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #21)

As a follow-up to my first "Twin Peaks Cinema" podcast, exploring four films by directors of Twin Peaks episode (I also discussed co-creator Mark Frost's Storyville and director Tim Hunter's River's Edge in standalone podcasts) I am gathering another four such titles. This time all the filmmakers debuted on Twin Peaks during its second season and they provide a wide range of genres and approaches. Todd Holland's The Wizard (1989) is a Nintendo advertisement disguised as a family film (or maybe vice versa) with a wacky, bombastic flair akin to his own Twin Peaks episodes 11 and 20; Graeme Clifford's moving Frances (1982) tells the story of troubled Hollywood star Frances Farmer in a fashion that anticipates both the tragedy of Laura Palmer and some of the climactic moments in his episode 12; Uli Edel's horror film Pay the Ghost (2015) uses similar horror/thriller techniques he utilized when Leo woke up in episode 21; and Diane Keaton's Heaven (1987 - not 1986 as I kept saying for some reason) is unmistakably in the same style she employed in her off-the-wall episode 22.

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ADDITIONAL LINKS FOR EPISODE 21

Journey Through Twin Peaks - Chapter 34 (seasons 1 & 2 collaborators): A Candle in Every Window (my video essay with clips from all of these films in juxtaposition to the directors' Twin Peaks episodes)

Listen to the rest of my Twin Peaks director coverage on the earlier public episode: 

Halloweentown, Zelly & Me, Now and Then, The Escape Artist - Twin Peaks Cinema #1

Mark Frost's Storyville - Twin Peaks Cinema #2

River's Edge - Twin Peaks Cinema #3

& on Patreon:

Episode 63B: Twin Peaks Cinema - What Did Jack Do?/Wiseguy's Lynchboro arc & Twin Peaks directors' films (After Dark My Sweet, Code Name: Emerald, Losing Isaiah, Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher & more)

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Episode 79 bonus - Reader/Viewer Feedback: Art Spiegelman & An American Tail, Q2 Fire Walk With Me fanedit, the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Mark Frost's narratives, East German "ostalgie", Lynchian identity loss & more

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