Lost in the Movies: April 2023

April 2023 Patreon round-up including 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances


In an unusually sparse month - which May should make up for - I released three advance TWIN PEAKS Character Series studies (slowing down my pace in the second half of April after picking it up in the first half). With the public series paused at #46 - just shy of the Log Lady - now is a particularly good time to become a $1/month patron and jump ahead of the most recent public entry to reach the outskirts of the top thirty...and beyond (since I'll continue to share entries with patrons as they're written behind the scenes in May).

These full previews include a couple brand new pieces on third season characters and a revised entry on an old favorite to reflect The Return and The Final Dossier...

Spring update for the big Twin Peaks projects & more (status update)


For the first time since resuming my TWIN PEAKS Character Series in January, I've paused the Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule. This make sense for a couple reasons. Firstly, I want patrons to remain a month ahead of the public releases, and I was just beginning to scrape up against that month's distance with my backlog (I hit a snag with #31, initially scheduled for May 19 but now postponed along with the rest of the entries). I could resume the thrice-a-week schedule anytime before the third week of August and still comfortably finish the series in time for my late October deadline, although I hope it will return sooner than that. As revealed in the last entry before the pause, the Log Lady is next - a perfect place to pick up again when the time comes. Secondly, while I have lots of breathing room for the character series, my public release of the Lost in Twin Peaks podcast is approaching a tighter squeeze. If I want to publish a podcast per day, with a week of coverage on each episode of season two plus the season three finale, I need to start doing so by Saturday, May 22 in order to meet that same late October deadline for completion.

Despite the ticking clock, I'm continuing to limit work on both projects to "after hours" outside of the usual time I reserve for online work, as discussed in my end of 2022 update. This way I can prioritize finishing the monthly podcast feeds up through their June hiatus; organizing, preparing for, and ultimately recording Twin Peaks Conversations through September; finally wrapping up the multipart Patreon episode 100; and, with those obligations finally met, shift my focus to Journey Through Twin Peaks, hopefully by early May. I may also publish some written reviews of random films I see along the way (at least as long as the character series is paused), but clearing the way for Journey is the target of all my other work.

For updates on that endeavor, as well as advanced entries of the character series, back halves of conversations, and five years of archive material, I invite you as always to...


Lost Highway as Twin Peaks Cinema #24 - Long Road Home (podcast)



This month I'm launching a new three-month theme, "Long Road Home", but this season's subject obviously ties directly into the previous one's. Like Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, and Blue Velvet, Lost Highway is part of "The Lynchverse" that includes Twin Peaks. In this case, Highway was Peaks' direct successor in David Lynch's filmography, and it shares many obvious and subtle connections, some birthed directly from the experience of making a TV show and prequel feature (while others crystallized in the film and were echoed twenty years later when Peaks returned). However, I'm linking Lost Highway to upcoming films on this podcast, rather than the prior trilogy, for a couple reasons. A road (or several) runs through all of the spring's topics, routes which the characters either take from one place to another, travel in a circuit, or sit by to watch the world go past. These films are all concerned with the question of going home (or staying there), asking who belongs where and with whom. And finally, most explicitly, all three films are crucial to the career of longtime Lynch collaborator Mary Sweeney (whose work with Lynch I covered in a video essay, sampled on this podcast alongside a bonus discussion of Peaks' Evelyn Marsh storyline and its ties to Highway). In all three of the movies we'll be covering, Sweeney is editor and producer, in two of these she is writer, and in one she is director. That journey begins here, with Lynch very much in the driver's seat but Sweeney's unique sensibilities already transforming our impressions of their cinema.

UPDATE: I initially forgot to include listener feedback from patrons on this subject before adding this section to the episode five days later.



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LINKS FOR EPISODE 24

The TWIN PEAKS Character Series (directory)


The directory will be updated as each entry is published/re-linked at a new ranking.



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Bonus entries (less than 10-minute screentime)




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New entries or links to old entries are published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from January 2 - April 14, 2023; on the same schedule from July 17 - August 18, 2023; and will resume and conclude on a yet-to-be-announced schedule around 2024.


YOU CAN PREVIEW ENTRIES AT LEAST A MONTH IN ADVANCE ON PATREON.
(as of April 15, full entries up to #18 are already available to patrons)

This new directory reflects a combination of old and new material that is up-to-date as of 2024. Original versions of revised entries are linked here for archival purposes (and for the original reader discussions), but are now officially obsolete.



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