This has been a year of Fire Walk With Me commemorations as the film turns thirty. In May, I published my extensive podcast series on the Twin Peaks movie, two weeks' worth of episodes on various aspects timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Cannes premiere. At the same time, I shared a particularly relevant Twin Peaks Cinema episode on The Sweet Hereafter (coincidentally celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of its own Cannes debut). And now, today is the anniversary of the U.S. wide release and I've timed the latest conversation for this occasion. I last spoke to Lindsay Hallam, author of the "Devil's Advocate" series book Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, in 2018 when her study was published (in fact this was the last written interview to be published on my site before I switched over entirely to audio conversations). We dig into that project again in this discussion - her book views Fire Walk With Me as a horror film, trauma film, Twin Peaks entry, and David Lynch film - but I also wanted to discuss a broader range of subjects, some of which were not included in her book (or touched upon only briefly). Chief among these was her fascination with both Fire Walk With Me and the Lynch filmography in general as forms of melodrama, linking the surrealist auteur to the great filmmakers of the fifties like Douglas Sirk and Nicholas Ray. Between my "Small Town Blues" series on Twin Peaks Cinema this past winter and my current "Ray's Haunted Fifties" coverage on the same podcast (which will soon make my Patreon episode on Bigger Than Life public), this is obviously a terrain I like to explore so the second part of our talk particularly hones in on it. We also focus on the horror genre, the analysis of "affect" in cinema, and meta-questions about season three and possible future Peaks that my guests and I always seem to circle back to.
The public discussion begins by tracing her journey toward writing the book, and the form it took...
PART 1 on YouTube
(premieres at 8 pm tonight, August 28)
After that half hour, another fifty-plus minutes are exclusive to the $5/month tier on my Patreon, casting the net wider while teasing out those melodrama connections...
Listen to...
Purchase Lindsay's book Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (Devil's Advocates)
Purchase her commentary on Martyrs, video essay on the Gothic Fantastico boxset & essay in the book Women of Lynch
Read her essays "May the Giant Be With You: Twin Peaks Season Two, Episode One and the Television Auteur" (Senses of Cinema) & "Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: The Return" (New American Notes Online)
(her connection to Lee Harvey Oswald may have been one degree more removed than I remembered)
(overlapping w/ most of Lindsay's categories of analysis)
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