This cross-post was scheduled and ready for 8am this morning, but accidentally remained in draft mode. Better late than never.
My three-month "Lynchverse" theme concludes (sort of) with the biggest topic of all: connections between Twin Peaks and the film that led directly to the pilot, Blue Velvet. This nearly ninety-minute episode, easily the longest I've released for Twin Peaks Cinema, serves as a companion to two episodes on my Lost in the Movies feed: the standalone Blue Velvet review from a couple years ago and this month's entry on Blue Velvet Revisited, a striking documentary about the film's production. (Incidentally, the above illustration is from a Wrapped in Plastic magazine cover designed by Craig Miller.) In this case there's so much ground to cover that I break the podcast into different sections, followed here by timecode for easy access...
COMPARISONS (7:06)
CONTRASTS (18:00)
FLUID PSYCHODRAMATIC CONNECTIONS (24:24)
CHARACTERS (40:58)
SETTING (52:54)
MOTIFS & MINOR CHARACTERS W/ CONNECTIONS TO DELETED SCENES (1:01:05)
+ BONUS: COMPARISON TO "JEAN FRAMING COOPER" STORYLINE (1:07:45)
+ BONUS: CRITERION SUPPLEMENTS INCLUDING MORE ON DELETED SCENES (1:16:33)
The links between these two iconic works begin behind the scenes with Blue Velvet's launch of so many collaborations with Lynch, often lifelong (RIP Angelo Badalamenti). And of course the world onscreen - a small town with dark secrets beneath the surface - is what lent itself so well to the surreal soap treatment suggested to Lynch and Mark Frost a few years later. But these close ties also make the differences between the works that much more fascinating - a sprawling TV series leaning toward a more rural aesthetic vs. a contained feature (albeit cut down from a much larger template) that evokes an urban milieu more often than one might expect. Aesthetically, narratively, and otherwise, Blue Velvet serves as a key passage between the intense focus of Lynch's earlier films like Eraserhead (last month's Twin Peaks Cinema subject) and his later films - which I'll be covering soon on this podcast, as part of a new theme overlapping with this one.
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LINKS FOR EPISODE 23
David Lynch & Mary Sweeney: Dream Souls (my video)
MY OTHER WORK ON BLUE VELVET
(Listen to a Patreon audio archive of all my previous work/mentions: as well as public readings/clips 1 / 2 / 3)
In a complete survey of Lynch's filmography up to 2014 w/ individual review & in a broader essay
In my non-narrated video essay Take This Baby and Deliver It to Death on Lynch's early work
(including Blue Velvet mentions not listed above)
Listen to my readings & clips from these & other pieces in the Blue Velvet archive
(including public archive episodes & an archive section in the patron episode)
Recently on Twin Peaks Conversations - "Twin Peaks Grammar"
Recently on Lost in the Movies patron podcast ($1/month) - Episode 99 ... Prologue - Zeitgeist fiction (10s Archive) ... A: 50s bonus / Concluding the 00s & 60s... All That Heaven Allows (capsules on Jailhouse Rock, Sweet Smell of Success, Shane, From Here to Eternity, Bell, Book, and Candle, The Manchurian Candidate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Departed, Mystic River, The Descent, Saw, Idiocracy, Anchorman, Zoolander, Fahrenheit 9/11, archive readings of Some Came Running, Kiss Me Deadly, Funny Face + feedback/media/work updates including A Goofy Movie & more) ... B: The 10s in January (& beyond)... Under the Skin (capsules on Jurassic World, Knives Out, American Sniper, Mad Max: Fury Road, It Follows, Personal Shopper, The Phantom Thread, Fahrenheit 11/9, Uncut Gems, Gravity, Straight Outta Compton, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Big Short, Joy, Mother!, Fruitvale Station, Carol, The Witch, Hereditary, The Love Witch, Looper, 13th, Snowden, Birdman, Bridesmaids, Baby Driver, The Great Gatsby, John Wick, archive reading of The Force Awakens & more) ... Epilogue - A Decade of Olympics (10s Archive)
Recently in my NEW TWIN PEAKS CHARACTER SERIES (written entries):
Betty Briggs (#73) / notes on an old entry: Black Rose "Blackie" O'Reilly (#72) / FBI Chief of Staff Denise Bryson (#71) / Carl Rodd (#70) / notes on an old entry: Andrew Packard (#69) / "Hutch" and Chantal Hutchens (#68) / Sam Colby and Tracey Barberato (#67) / Deputy Chad Broxford (#66) / Ernie Niles (#65) / notes on an old entry: Jacques Renault (#64) / Freddie Sykes (#63) / The Singer (#62) + jump ahead at least a month as a patron
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