My October patron podcasts took almost as long to complete as my February ones did (longer, in the case of the main episode). In some of the announcements linked below, I explain why - if you haven't already read/heard me talking about it - but by the eve of Thanksgiving* I got there, publishing the first new "Twin Peaks Cinema" discussion since early September. A listener suggested Field of Dreams when re-watching her childhood favorite and I was intrigued by similarities both circumstantial and fundamental. Both capture something about the late eighties/early nineties zeitgeist, its quasi-spiritual yearning for both the comfort of the past and the excitement of a just-on-the-cusp future. And once again Part 18's existential road trip offers a new point of comparison between Twin Peaks and another work, although in this case reclusive writer Terrence Mann and boomer dreamer Ray Kinsella bond more readily than Cooper and Carrie Page. Elsewhere in this episode, I read from one of my favorite essays - an extensively-researched 2010 meditation on Field of Dreams' relationship to the sixties (as well as the later zeitgeist looking back on it nostalgically) - and I use a late season two episode of Twin Peaks as a springboard for several subjects including the show's sprawling mythology. Here's the round-up...
(*November's official podcasts were completed after these, during the last days of the month, and will be cross-posted separately in a couple weeks.)
Other Patreon posts, in chronological order...
Podcast Line-Up for Lost in the Movies #84
INTRO
(no monthly update)
TWIN PEAKS REFLECTIONS
Rusty, Annie / Library, Easter Park / Lodge mythology + Part 14
TWIN PEAKS CINEMA
Field of Dreams
OPENING THE ARCHIVE
Boomer Baseball - Field of Dreams & the American 60s
(after clip from my 32 Days of Movies series)
OUTRO
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