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

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)


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