Twin Peaks Conversations podcast with guests Scott Ryan (cross-post), Mark Givens, Courtenay Stallings, Julie Grossman & Will Scheibel, Mya McBriar, Andreas Halskov, Cameron Cloutier, Counter Esperanto hosts, Lindsay Hallam, John Thorne, Creamed Corn and the Universe host, Vera Drew, Twin Peaks: Evangelion hosts • Mad Men viewing diary concludes with season 7 • public podcast seasons on directors & classic Hollywood • patron podcast concludes "Twin Peaks Cinema" & "Twin Peaks Reflections" • most of Olympic Series including conclusion • public Twin Peaks Cinema themes: "Small town blues", "Traumatic transformations", "Ray's haunted fifties" & "Disordered stories" • "Unseen" popular film series 2010 - 12 • Lost in Twin Peaks podcast on Fire Walk With Me & most of season 3 goes public including Part 8 with Em & Steve of No Ship Network • podcast guest on Uncut Gems, Obnoxious & Anonymous, Windom's Cabin & Creamed Corn and the Universe for Sarah Palmer • patron podcast launches decade theme with 80s, 90s, 70s, 00s & 60s plus Halloween & Christmas specials • final Neon Genesis Evangelion post
continuing Chapter 39: Rise and Fall of the Grand Plan (September 2021 - January 2022)
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JANUARY
With a new Fire Walk With Me book on the horizon for the thirtieth anniversary, we explore Scott's personal relationship to the film and some of his issues with season three
A computer messes with Michael's mind (and body) while Don heads to California expecting to find an old friend but several surprises are in store
Amidst all my conclusions and catch-up, there's also this fresh beginning - a loosely themed season focused on a trio of directors, starting with Jane Campion's most acclaimed work as it makes its Criterion debut
Ending the old year and kicking off the new with one of the closest films to Fire Walk With Me, plus finally offering some brief thoughts on Denis Villeneuve's Dune months after abandoning my rollout for the "new release" podcast
Peggy second-guesses her family-friendly approach to a fast food commercial so Don - brooding after a wistful, melancholy visit from Megan - joins her for a classic, boozy brainstorming session
Don's nine lives appear to be up while pitching hamburgers with Peggy in the Midwest (meanwhile, a Midwesterner lands on the moon)
Chapter 40: Winter is for Wrapping Up (January - April 2022)
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The Olympic Films, part 2 of 7: Summer 2004 / 2000 / 1996 & Winter 1948 / 1952 / 1956
Interrupted like many other projects in the fall, my coverage finally resumes as a weekly rather than monthly series of round-ups, interweaving forward-moving Winter Olympics, including the gorgeous White Vertigo, and backward-moving Summer Olympics (in this case, a trilogy of Bud Greenspan films)
Kings Row as TWIN PEAKS CINEMA #9 (podcast)
My "Small Town Blues" trilogy begins late in the nineteenth century as a young man falls in love with a troubled, mysterious young woman whose father mentors him in psychoanalysis
Mad Men - "Severance" (season 7, episode 8 / part 2 premiere)
Sterling Cooper & Partners enters the seventies crooning "Is that all there is?" as Don grieves an old friend and finds himself intrigued by a moody waitress
The Olympic Films, part 3 of 7: Summer 1992 / 1988 / 1984 / 1980 & Winter 1960 / 1964 / 1968
Carlos Saura's talk-free Marathon, Greenspan's heavily narrated Los Angeles debut, and Yuri Ozerov's whimsical, innovative peek behind the boycotted Soviet games accompany a couple uber-sixties French docs set in Grenoble and a trio of South Korean films celebrating Seoul
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #6 w/ Murder at Teal's Pond author Mark Givens (YouTube & extended PATREON)
The turn-of-the-century world of Kings Row and the shocking murder of Twin Peaks are given nonfictional form by a book about the unsolved mystery of Hazel Drew
Mad Men - "New Business" (season 7, episode 9)
As he pursues another lonely soul, Don must deal with the wreckage of a past relationship; meanwhile, Peggy and Stan are entrapped by a charming, manipulative fashion photographer
FEBRUARY
The two seasons cross paths in the seventies for some of the series' most striking entries, including a fun James Coburn-hosted exploration of winter sports and an eclectic anthology approach to the dark Munich games in the multi-director Visions of Eight
Holy Smoke! w/ guests Em & Steve of No Ship Network (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #37)
Fellow podcasters join me to analyze this nineties outback power struggle between a stubborn young woman and an arrogant older man determined to break her faith in a religious cult, re-presented just a month before Jane Campion would win Best Director for the first time
January 2022 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN THE MOVIES #87 - Twin Peaks Cinema: On Dangerous Ground (+ Twin Peaks Reflections: Pete, Doc, Spirits, Glastonbury Grove, Mystery box/Mulholland Drive & more) plus TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS
One of my last podcasts in this format completes the past year's look at Nicholas Ray and uses David Lynch's original Twin Peaks finale as a springboard to discuss some heady mythological concepts
Mad Men - "The Forecast" (season 7, episode 10)
In one of the series' last calm moments, Don tries to figure out where he's going, Joan meets cute in California, and an unexpected reunion takes an even more unexpected turn in the shadow of Vietnam
The Olympic Films, part 5 of 7: Summer 1964 / 1960 / 1956 & Winter 1984 / 1988 / 1992 / 1994
Kon Ichikawa's masterful Tokyo Olympiad adopts an unusual perspective, a happy Sarajevo plays host a decade before being torn to pieces, and my Winter Olympics trajectory finally reaches events I can personally remember
Mad Men - "Time & Life" (season 7, episode 11)
With massive change in the air, Don launches another last-minute campaign to avert business disaster...but will it work and, more importantly, is what's being averted really a disaster?
The Olympic Films, part 6 of 7: Summer 1952 / 1948 / 1936 (+ 1932 bonus) & Winter 1998 / 2002 / 2006
The Nazis host the last games in a dozen years before the war that they'll start, London and St. Moritz welcome the postwar era in glorious Technicolor (the only documentary to include both summer and winter events), and Americans are determined to win in the wake of 9/11
Our Town as TWIN PEAKS CINEMA #10 (podcast)
The original "Small Town Blues" drama left a deep impression on Mark Frost, and its community spirit can be felt in his contributions to Peaks (especially his books)
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #7 w/ Laura's Ghost author Courtenay Stallings (YouTube & extended PATREON)
A moving literary tribute to the legacy of Peaks' portrait of abuse and survival launches a broader discussion about the shape of season three, including the mysteries entangled with Laura's mother
Mad Men - "Lost Horizon" (season 7, episode 12)
The show unveils some of its most iconic and evocative imagery when Peggy finds her sea legs in an abandoned office, Joan falls through the cracks in a new environment, and Don decides to go on an impromptu "sales call"
The Olympic Films, part 7 of 7: Summer 1928 / 1924 / 1912 (+ 1920 & 1896 - 1908 bonus) & Winter 2010 / 2014 / 2018 / 2022 (broadcast)
Summer coverage stretches back beyond the reach of motion picture cameras and the winter thread unravels into immediate Olympic drama in the present day (passing, in this process, an ominous celebration of Putin's Russia)
February 2022 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN THE MOVIES #88 - Twin Peaks Cinema: The Sweet Hereafter w/ book & podcast recommendations (+ Twin Peaks Reflections - Cliff, Jeffries, Carl, Mo's Motor, Oregon FBI office, Annie's message/Season 3 Part 7 + bonus: Bobby killed a guy/Season 3 Part 9, Affliction archive reading & more) plus LOST IN TWIN PEAKS - Fire Walk With Me for all patrons & TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS
I bid farewell to the Patreon template I've used since 2019, opening the last part of Lost in Twin Peaks for the $1/month tier and presenting the final monthly editions of my patron-exclusive "Twin Peaks Cinema" and "Twin Peaks Reflections" by connecting Fire Walk With Me to a sad, snowy film and exploring some of its more peripheral characters, locations, and storylines
Mad Men - "The Milk and Honey Route" (season 7, episode 13)
A door opens for Pete, a door closes for Betty, and Don's breakdown strands him in a town offering both camaraderie and savagery
MARCH
After covering a couple Campions, my season of director miniseries shifts to Darren Aronofsky and the austere but expansive vision of his debut feature
Mad Men - "Person to Person" (season 7, episode 14)
The finale follows through with Pete's and Betty's closing arcs as set in the previous episode, offers Roger a grace note, and asks at least three more questions: Where does Peggy belong? Will Joan choose comfort over ambition? And can Don discover a lifeline?
After months of delay - a year in the case of podcast recommendations - I finally pack together long-promised bonus sections into several episodes' worth of commentary, linked by a concern with history, politics, the passage of time, and the frustrations of the present moment
Peyton Place as TWIN PEAKS CINEMA #11 (podcast)
"Small Town Blues" reaches the film whose cultural imprint and portrait of domestic dysfunction most directly shaped Twin Peaks, even if Lynch and Frost were not fans
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #8 w/ TV Milestones - Twin Peaks authors Julie Grossman & Will Scheibel (YouTube & extended PATREON)
Two scholars' multifaceted book explores all three seasons in depth, particularly evoking the spirit of noir and the femme fatale
Requiem for a Dream (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #39 - bonus)
Another early Aronofsky captures the turn-of-the-millennium Gen X zeitgeist in its extreme visions of delusion and addiction
APRIL
Not for the first time, but hopefully for the last, I lay out a plan to get through several projects and reach Part 6 of Journey Through Twin Peaks
The Wrestler (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #40)
Third entry in my Aronofsky podcast trio examines his late zeroes "comeback" against the background of its cultural moment, gritty but still with a streak of romanticism
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #9 w/ Twin Peaks Fanatic creator Mya McBriar (YouTube & extended PATREON)
Shared on the thirty-second anniversary of the pilot - a chat about the different eras of the fan community, Mya's memories of growing up with Peaks, and the highs and lows of season three
Catching up with comments on various platforms including a compelling fairy tale/Twin Peaks comparison, this wraps my unfinished business from the previous year so that I can move on to more long-term projects and new approaches across the board
Belladonna of Sadness as TWIN PEAKS CINEMA #12 (podcast)
Three months of "Traumatic Transformations" are initiated by the dark Japanese tale of a woman who uses the power of witchcraft to carve a space apart from the king who assaulted her
TWIN PEAKS Character Series previews begin on Patreon
My plans to renew the character series result in monthly patron rewards
The Avengers (The Unseen 2012)
Resuming my written Unseen series for the Marvel movie on its tenth anniversary (whereas the last entry was published just six and half years after its premiere): for better or worse, one of the biggest blockbusters and gamechangers in film history
The Prestige (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #41)
After a Campion duo and Aronofsky trio, my season of directors introduces Christopher Nolan as its final subject, beginning with his film about rival magicians
Trouble with the Schedule (status update on Lost in Twin Peaks, The Unseen & more)
As the character series gets bogged down, and the Fire Walk With Me coverage struggles to catch up, I determine my schedule for the coming season
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #31: Fire Walk With Me (the film & The Missing Pieces) podcasts & illustrated companion
Fourteen daily episodes cover every aspect of the Twin Peaks movie on its thirtieth anniversary, from production to plot to mythology to deleted scenes to historical context (including a culture war speech in 1992 and a shaky economic recovery in 2014)
The Sweet Hereafter as TWIN PEAKS CINEMA #13 (podcast)
Continuing the "Traumatic Transformations" theme in one of the longest episodes, about a quiet Canadian town devastated by a tragic accident (whose only survivor harbors her own dark secret)
Summer schedule: Lost in Twin Peaks season 3 begins tomorrow, TWIN PEAKS Character Series postponed & the next conversation
Status update on multiple fronts, but most importantly I resolve to continue with the Lost in Twin Peaks episodic podcast and delay the character entries
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #10 w/ TV Peaks author Andreas Halskov (YouTube & extended PATREON)
Andreas discusses his past and upcoming books as well as what it was like to grow up a Danish fan of this faraway world
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #32: Season 3 Parts 1 & 2 (The Return - "My Log Has a Message for You" & "The Stars Turn and a Time Presents Itself") podcasts & illustrated companion
Five years after the season three premiere juggled New York, South Dakota, Las Vegas, and a certain Washington town, my patron rewatch goes public (re-formatted to fit the weekly/daily spoiler-free Lost in Twin Peaks structure including historical context like Trump's Middle Eastern orb)
Interstellar (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #42)
The season of director pairings ends with Christopher Nolan's vision of space travel and planetary colonization
Status update: The House is Black on Wonders in the Dark, barely keeping up w/ public podcasts, Patreon delay
As I struggle to maintain multiple deadlines, I share an old piece featured on another site and offer progress reports on other projects
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #33: Season 3 Parts 3 & 4 (The Return - "Call for Help" & "...Brings Back Some Memories") podcasts & illustrated companion
Another two-parter dips into extreme avant-garde fantasy and droll comic relief among other modes (historical context includes a monsoon in Sri Lanka)
Status update: "Remembering the Class of 2002" & getting ahead on Lost in Twin Peaks
On the twentieth anniversary of the characters' high school reunion in my short film, I re-share Class of 2002 and offer encouraging news on my podcasts
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #34: Season 3 Part 5 (The Return - "Case Files") podcasts & illustrated companion
Dougie goes to work in Vegas while we meet many Twin Peaks residents for the first time (for historical context, Ariana Grande pays tribute to victims of a terror attack on her concert)
belated May 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #91 - The Morning Show (+ feedback/media/work updates: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Belfast, Benjamin Franklin, Latin American history, The Office finale, Joan Chen's career, the Oscars slap, generational shifts, archive reading: making my movie Class of 2002 & more) + 7 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Between its #MeToo and Covid-19 topicality and its compelling parallels with the Laura Palmer story, the Apple TV+ series provides a strong center for this otherwise random round-up of topics
Mysterious Skin as Twin Peaks Cinema #14 (podcast)
Completing the "Traumatic Transformations" trilogy, two young men grapple with the memory (repressed or otherwise) of sexual abuse in dramatically different ways
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #35: Season 3 Part 6 (The Return - "Don't Die") podcasts & illustrated companion
Bloodshed and grief haunt this episode (while historical context explores the life of the retiring Japanese emperor)
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #36: Season 3 Part 7 (The Return - "There's a Body All Right") podcasts & illustrated companion
Indulging viewers hungry for the bigger picture, Lynch and Frost offer breadcrumbs back to the original series (and the podcast checks in on Jared Kushner for 2017 historical context)
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #37: Season 3 Part 8 (The Return - "Gotta Light?" w/ guests Em & Steve of No Ship Network) podcasts & illustrated companion
The only guest discussion on Lost in Twin Peaks sweeps across the legendary Part 8's New Mexican opus (while in a grim coincidence, a Pakistani tanker explosion features as historical context)
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #11 w/ Queen of Hearts director Cameron Cloutier (YouTube & extended PATREON)
After years of work on an epic, four-hour fan film about Annie Blackburn, Cameron is finally ready to present the finished result
The Ballad of Laura Palmer • discussing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me w/ the Uncut Gems podcast
As part of their yearlong Lynchography, I join several hosts to consider the prequel's merits and flaws
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #38: Season 3 Part 9 (The Return - "This Is the Chair") podcasts & illustrated companion
A message from a dead parent highlights this episode (and historical context covers an ISIS defeat)
Announcement: Considering the "Generations" video essay (& series) for the end of 2022
Describing my ambitions for a video series covering different eras and generations, as well as deadlines for the end of the year
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #39: Season 3 Part 10 (The Return - "Laura Is the One") podcasts & illustrated companion
Brooding material for my last episode coverage until the fall, accompanied by Game of Thrones-themed historical context
On Dangerous Ground as Twin Peaks Cinema #15 - Ray's Haunted Fifties (podcast)
New season explores Nicholas Ray's connections to Peaks, beginning with the noir in which a city detective arrives at a remote rural outpost to investigate a murder
Live From Twin Peaks • discussion w/ the Obnoxious and Anonymous podcast
Soon after he appeared on my podcast, I join Cameron Cloutier for a "Twin Peaks Thought of the Day" episode to talk about the recent losses of Lenny Von Dohlen and Julee Cruise (in a year full of such Peaks passings)
Pausing Lost in Twin Peaks again (+ my plans going forward)
Stopping my episodic podcast coverage allows me to catch up with several other delayed deadlines
What's that noise in Windom's Cabin? (podcast panel)
A virtual Twin Peaks conference included me among several podcast hosts for a group discussion
belated June 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #92 - The Power of Nightmares (+ feedback/media/work updates: King Kong vs. Godzilla, In the Line of Fire, political shifts, the Iraq War, archive reading: An American in Paris & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Adam Curtis' lucid, hypnotic breakdown of the War on Terror mythology relates to other political topics on my radar
Monkey Business (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #44)
Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, and Ginger Rogers share the screen with a chimpanzee in a Howard Hawks comedy as my Classic Hollywood coverage continues
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #12 w/ Counter Esperanto hosts Jubel Brosseau & Karl Eckler (YouTube & extended PATREON)
The cross-section of weird fiction and Twin Peaks is a specialty of the Counter Esperanto podcast, whose hosts join me to discuss that nexus as well as their familiarity with the Washington region where the show talks place
Rebel Without a Cause as Twin Peaks Cinema #16 - Ray's Haunted Fifties (podcast)
Chapter 41: Podcast Immersion (April - December 2022)
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Three months of "Traumatic Transformations" are initiated by the dark Japanese tale of a woman who uses the power of witchcraft to carve a space apart from the king who assaulted her
TWIN PEAKS Character Series previews begin on Patreon
My plans to renew the character series result in monthly patron rewards
MAY
Resuming my written Unseen series for the Marvel movie on its tenth anniversary (whereas the last entry was published just six and half years after its premiere): for better or worse, one of the biggest blockbusters and gamechangers in film history
The Prestige (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #41)
After a Campion duo and Aronofsky trio, my season of directors introduces Christopher Nolan as its final subject, beginning with his film about rival magicians
Trouble with the Schedule (status update on Lost in Twin Peaks, The Unseen & more)
As the character series gets bogged down, and the Fire Walk With Me coverage struggles to catch up, I determine my schedule for the coming season
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #31: Fire Walk With Me (the film & The Missing Pieces) podcasts & illustrated companion
Fourteen daily episodes cover every aspect of the Twin Peaks movie on its thirtieth anniversary, from production to plot to mythology to deleted scenes to historical context (including a culture war speech in 1992 and a shaky economic recovery in 2014)
The Sweet Hereafter as TWIN PEAKS CINEMA #13 (podcast)
Continuing the "Traumatic Transformations" theme in one of the longest episodes, about a quiet Canadian town devastated by a tragic accident (whose only survivor harbors her own dark secret)
Summer schedule: Lost in Twin Peaks season 3 begins tomorrow, TWIN PEAKS Character Series postponed & the next conversation
Status update on multiple fronts, but most importantly I resolve to continue with the Lost in Twin Peaks episodic podcast and delay the character entries
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #10 w/ TV Peaks author Andreas Halskov (YouTube & extended PATREON)
Andreas discusses his past and upcoming books as well as what it was like to grow up a Danish fan of this faraway world
JUNE
Five years after the season three premiere juggled New York, South Dakota, Las Vegas, and a certain Washington town, my patron rewatch goes public (re-formatted to fit the weekly/daily spoiler-free Lost in Twin Peaks structure including historical context like Trump's Middle Eastern orb)
Interstellar (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #42)
The season of director pairings ends with Christopher Nolan's vision of space travel and planetary colonization
Status update: The House is Black on Wonders in the Dark, barely keeping up w/ public podcasts, Patreon delay
As I struggle to maintain multiple deadlines, I share an old piece featured on another site and offer progress reports on other projects
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #33: Season 3 Parts 3 & 4 (The Return - "Call for Help" & "...Brings Back Some Memories") podcasts & illustrated companion
Another two-parter dips into extreme avant-garde fantasy and droll comic relief among other modes (historical context includes a monsoon in Sri Lanka)
Status update: "Remembering the Class of 2002" & getting ahead on Lost in Twin Peaks
On the twentieth anniversary of the characters' high school reunion in my short film, I re-share Class of 2002 and offer encouraging news on my podcasts
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #34: Season 3 Part 5 (The Return - "Case Files") podcasts & illustrated companion
Dougie goes to work in Vegas while we meet many Twin Peaks residents for the first time (for historical context, Ariana Grande pays tribute to victims of a terror attack on her concert)
belated May 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #91 - The Morning Show (+ feedback/media/work updates: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Belfast, Benjamin Franklin, Latin American history, The Office finale, Joan Chen's career, the Oscars slap, generational shifts, archive reading: making my movie Class of 2002 & more) + 7 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Between its #MeToo and Covid-19 topicality and its compelling parallels with the Laura Palmer story, the Apple TV+ series provides a strong center for this otherwise random round-up of topics
Mysterious Skin as Twin Peaks Cinema #14 (podcast)
Completing the "Traumatic Transformations" trilogy, two young men grapple with the memory (repressed or otherwise) of sexual abuse in dramatically different ways
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #35: Season 3 Part 6 (The Return - "Don't Die") podcasts & illustrated companion
Bloodshed and grief haunt this episode (while historical context explores the life of the retiring Japanese emperor)
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #36: Season 3 Part 7 (The Return - "There's a Body All Right") podcasts & illustrated companion
Indulging viewers hungry for the bigger picture, Lynch and Frost offer breadcrumbs back to the original series (and the podcast checks in on Jared Kushner for 2017 historical context)
JULY
The only guest discussion on Lost in Twin Peaks sweeps across the legendary Part 8's New Mexican opus (while in a grim coincidence, a Pakistani tanker explosion features as historical context)
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #11 w/ Queen of Hearts director Cameron Cloutier (YouTube & extended PATREON)
After years of work on an epic, four-hour fan film about Annie Blackburn, Cameron is finally ready to present the finished result
The fifth season of my public podcast focuses on "Classic Hollywood" and begins with this bouncy Astaire/Rogers musical
The Ballad of Laura Palmer • discussing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me w/ the Uncut Gems podcast
As part of their yearlong Lynchography, I join several hosts to consider the prequel's merits and flaws
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #38: Season 3 Part 9 (The Return - "This Is the Chair") podcasts & illustrated companion
A message from a dead parent highlights this episode (and historical context covers an ISIS defeat)
Announcement: Considering the "Generations" video essay (& series) for the end of 2022
Describing my ambitions for a video series covering different eras and generations, as well as deadlines for the end of the year
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #39: Season 3 Part 10 (The Return - "Laura Is the One") podcasts & illustrated companion
Brooding material for my last episode coverage until the fall, accompanied by Game of Thrones-themed historical context
On Dangerous Ground as Twin Peaks Cinema #15 - Ray's Haunted Fifties (podcast)
New season explores Nicholas Ray's connections to Peaks, beginning with the noir in which a city detective arrives at a remote rural outpost to investigate a murder
Live From Twin Peaks • discussion w/ the Obnoxious and Anonymous podcast
Soon after he appeared on my podcast, I join Cameron Cloutier for a "Twin Peaks Thought of the Day" episode to talk about the recent losses of Lenny Von Dohlen and Julee Cruise (in a year full of such Peaks passings)
Pausing Lost in Twin Peaks again (+ my plans going forward)
Stopping my episodic podcast coverage allows me to catch up with several other delayed deadlines
What's that noise in Windom's Cabin? (podcast panel)
A virtual Twin Peaks conference included me among several podcast hosts for a group discussion
belated June 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #92 - The Power of Nightmares (+ feedback/media/work updates: King Kong vs. Godzilla, In the Line of Fire, political shifts, the Iraq War, archive reading: An American in Paris & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Adam Curtis' lucid, hypnotic breakdown of the War on Terror mythology relates to other political topics on my radar
AUGUST
Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, and Ginger Rogers share the screen with a chimpanzee in a Howard Hawks comedy as my Classic Hollywood coverage continues
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #12 w/ Counter Esperanto hosts Jubel Brosseau & Karl Eckler (YouTube & extended PATREON)
The cross-section of weird fiction and Twin Peaks is a specialty of the Counter Esperanto podcast, whose hosts join me to discuss that nexus as well as their familiarity with the Washington region where the show talks place
Rebel Without a Cause as Twin Peaks Cinema #16 - Ray's Haunted Fifties (podcast)
Iconography and thematic echoes of Nicholas Ray's (and James Dean's) most famous work can be found all over Twin Peaks
belated July 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #93: Coffee and Cigarettes (+ feedback/media/work updates including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Russian Revolution, failures of the decadent right, history of malls, archive reading: Lady and the Tramp & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Jim Jarmusch's anthology of sketches is my film in focus for the last un-themed, simple Patreon podcast before I launch a more ambitious run to the 100th episode finish
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #13 w/ Devil's Advocates - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me author Lindsay Hallam (YouTube & extended PATREON) premieres tonight
Thirty years after Fire Walk With Me's American wide release, and four years after we discussed her book for the first time in a print interview, Lindsay returns for a podcast
August 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #94: The 80s in August... Desperately Seeking Susan & Top Gun (capsules on Stranger Things, Poltergeist, Beverly Hills Cop, Witness, The Breakfast Club, Wall Street, Twins, The Hunger, archive readings on Fast Times at Ridgemont High, E.T., Muppet Babies, An American Tail, Brave Little Toaster, The Secret of NIMH, The Last Unicorn + feedback/media/work updates including Captain America: Civil War & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
My decades project focuses on two eighties pop classics alongside a collection of capsules and archive readings covering the Reagan era
Melodrama, Crime, Fantasy, and War: 17 Classic Capsules (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #45) - brief reflections on Ah, Wilderness!, A Letter to Three Wives, Invitation, Morning Glory, Parnell, Little Caesar, Dick Tracy, Nightmare Alley, Gilda, The Woman in White, It Came From Outer Space, Pinocchio, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Enchanted Cottage, The White Cliffs of Dover, The Fallen Sparrow & The Angel Wore Red
The Classic Hollywood coverage transforms into a daisy chain of capsules grouped roughly by genre
Bigger Than Life as Twin Peaks Cinema #17 - Ray's Haunted Fifties (podcast)
Finishing three months of Nicholas Ray/Twin Peaks exploration with the story of a megalomaniacal father in the throes of drug addiction
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #14 w/ Ominous Whoosh author John Thorne (YouTube & extended PATREON)
belated July 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #93: Coffee and Cigarettes (+ feedback/media/work updates including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Russian Revolution, failures of the decadent right, history of malls, archive reading: Lady and the Tramp & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Jim Jarmusch's anthology of sketches is my film in focus for the last un-themed, simple Patreon podcast before I launch a more ambitious run to the 100th episode finish
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #13 w/ Devil's Advocates - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me author Lindsay Hallam (YouTube & extended PATREON) premieres tonight
Thirty years after Fire Walk With Me's American wide release, and four years after we discussed her book for the first time in a print interview, Lindsay returns for a podcast
SEPTEMBER
My decades project focuses on two eighties pop classics alongside a collection of capsules and archive readings covering the Reagan era
Melodrama, Crime, Fantasy, and War: 17 Classic Capsules (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #45) - brief reflections on Ah, Wilderness!, A Letter to Three Wives, Invitation, Morning Glory, Parnell, Little Caesar, Dick Tracy, Nightmare Alley, Gilda, The Woman in White, It Came From Outer Space, Pinocchio, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Enchanted Cottage, The White Cliffs of Dover, The Fallen Sparrow & The Angel Wore Red
The Classic Hollywood coverage transforms into a daisy chain of capsules grouped roughly by genre
Bigger Than Life as Twin Peaks Cinema #17 - Ray's Haunted Fifties (podcast)
Finishing three months of Nicholas Ray/Twin Peaks exploration with the story of a megalomaniacal father in the throes of drug addiction
OCTOBER
My first official Conversations repeat guest, John is back for an in-depth exploration of The Return as analyzed in his brand new book
The Shanghai Gesture (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #46)
The Shanghai Gesture (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #46)
After discussing films from the thirties and fifties, the Classic Hollywood season shifts to the forties where class, sex, and race mix in a Chinese casino under Josef von Sternberg's direction
Back to the Future Part II as Twin Peaks Cinema #18 - Disordered Stories (podcast) + Back to the Future capsule
Back to the Future Part II as Twin Peaks Cinema #18 - Disordered Stories (podcast) + Back to the Future capsule
Narrative twists and turns provide a throughline for the remaining three months of the year, starting with the lighthearted if at times dystopian time travel of Marty McFly and Doc Brown through 1955, 1985, and 2015
The Vulnerable Throne: capsule on The Bitter Tea of General Yen + brief reflections on Knights of the Round Table, Land of the Pharaohs & Rasputin and the Empress (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #47)
NOVEMBER
With most of the focus on Frank Capra's portrait of Oriental intrigue, this Classic Hollywood episode also includes tangents on three other films in which rulers fall due to seductive interlopers
The Many Faces of Sarah Palmer • discussion w/ the Creamed Corn and the Universe podcast (+ status update: Lost in Twin Peaks returns)
The Many Faces of Sarah Palmer • discussion w/ the Creamed Corn and the Universe podcast (+ status update: Lost in Twin Peaks returns)
Stretching chronologically from the New Mexico girl to the last words of the season three finale, host Colin and I consider the broad spectrum of Sarah's contributions to Twin Peaks, often forgotten but always crucial
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #40: Season 3 Part 11 (The Return - "There's Fire Where You Are Going") podcasts & illustrated companion
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #40: Season 3 Part 11 (The Return - "There's Fire Where You Are Going") podcasts & illustrated companion
Action-packed in its first half, focused on a single Vegas storyline in its second, this unique episode provides a comeback for the podcast after a long break (historical context resumes with the simultaneous premiere of Dunkirk)
belated September 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #95: The 90s in September (& beyond) + 70s bonus & Concluding the 80s ... Pulp Fiction, Klute, Red Dawn, Do the Right Thing & Hail Mary (capsules on Stranger Things, Top Gun: Maverick, The Goonies, Gremlins, Midnight Run, Scarface, Thelma & Louise, Scream, Gremlins II, Romeo + Juliet, Set It Off, The Firm, Exotica, Network, Superman, Magnolia, Saturday Night Fever, Reality Bites, Boogie Nights, Nashville, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Ice Storm, Dangerous Minds, archive readings of The Conversation & Enemy of the State + feedback/media/work updates including Encanto & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
belated September 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #95: The 90s in September (& beyond) + 70s bonus & Concluding the 80s ... Pulp Fiction, Klute, Red Dawn, Do the Right Thing & Hail Mary (capsules on Stranger Things, Top Gun: Maverick, The Goonies, Gremlins, Midnight Run, Scarface, Thelma & Louise, Scream, Gremlins II, Romeo + Juliet, Set It Off, The Firm, Exotica, Network, Superman, Magnolia, Saturday Night Fever, Reality Bites, Boogie Nights, Nashville, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Ice Storm, Dangerous Minds, archive readings of The Conversation & Enemy of the State + feedback/media/work updates including Encanto & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Wrapping up the eighties with the diverse trio of John Milius, Spike Lee, and Jean-Luc Godard, my decade series moves in two directions at once - into the seventies with a thriller about a troubled call girl and the nineties with a zeitgeist-defining postmodern crime film
The Vanishing as Twin Peaks Cinema #19 - Disordered Stories (podcast)
The Vanishing as Twin Peaks Cinema #19 - Disordered Stories (podcast)
A mystery told out of order, with frontloaded reveals and deeper questions beyond "whodunit"
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #41: Season 3 Part 12 (The Return - "Let's Rock") podcasts & illustrated companion
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #41: Season 3 Part 12 (The Return - "Let's Rock") podcasts & illustrated companion
Several female characters have notable parts to play in an otherwise male-dominated season (meanwhile, a Venezuelan political controversy anchors historical context)
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #15 w/ Colin, host of Creamed Corn and the Universe (YouTube & extended PATREON)
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #15 w/ Colin, host of Creamed Corn and the Universe (YouTube & extended PATREON)
Following my recent appeareance on his podcast, Colin joins me for a wide-ranging discussion - including what it's like to be a post-Return fan who discovered the entirety of Twin Peaks in recent years
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #42: Season 3 Part 13 (The Return - "What Story Is That, Charlie?") podcasts & illustrated companion
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #42: Season 3 Part 13 (The Return - "What Story Is That, Charlie?") podcasts & illustrated companion
Confrontations both passive and physical face Cooper(s), plus a Tulsa tornado marks my historical context discussion
belated October 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #96: Halloween Special / Continuing the 90s... Bram Stoker's Dracula (+ archive readings of Dracula, Frankenstein & The Wolf Man, feedback/media/work updates including Cooper's identity, the Professional Managerial Class & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
belated October 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #96: Halloween Special / Continuing the 90s... Bram Stoker's Dracula (+ archive readings of Dracula, Frankenstein & The Wolf Man, feedback/media/work updates including Cooper's identity, the Professional Managerial Class & more) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
Holiday and nineties theme meet in the form of Francis Ford Coppola's gloriously flamboyant vampire myth
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #43: Season 3 Part 14 (The Return - "Who Is the Dreamer?") podcasts & illustrated companion
DECEMBER
The mystic flavor of late season three blossoms with Monica, Sarah, Freddie, and Andy (aired in the wake of Charlottesville, which is covered here as historical context)
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #16 w/ The People's Joker director Vera Drew (YouTube & extended PATREON) premieres on Wednesday
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #16 w/ The People's Joker director Vera Drew (YouTube & extended PATREON) premieres on Wednesday
This podcast's first guest from outside the Twin Peaks commentator community, Vera is a big Peaks fan whose recent film The People's Joker went viral when Warners and DC disapproved of its high-profile festival debut
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #44: Season 3 Part 15 (The Return - "There's Some Fear in Letting Go") podcasts & illustrated companion
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #44: Season 3 Part 15 (The Return - "There's Some Fear in Letting Go") podcasts & illustrated companion
Joyous reunion and sorrowful death dot an episode that coincided with the historical context of Jerry Lewis' passing
belated November 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #97 coming this week: The 00s in November (& beyond) + 60s bonus & Concluding the 90s & 70s... Godard's Weekend & Southland Tales w/ guest Andrew Cook (w/ his feedback & my capsule on 300, more capsules on Bonnie & Clyde, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, The Swimmer, Dr. Strangelove, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Darjeeling Limited, The Dark Knight, Gangs of New York, 500 Days of Summer, The Ring, Donnie Darko, The Box, Dog Day Afternoon, The Muppet Movie, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Witches, Heat, The Blair Witch Project, Edward Scissorhands, Election, Groundhog Day, Total Recall, Dick Tracy, archive readings of my reflections on the 00s decade, To Kill a Mockingbird, Breathless & much, much more including feedback/media/work updates) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
belated November 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #97 coming this week: The 00s in November (& beyond) + 60s bonus & Concluding the 90s & 70s... Godard's Weekend & Southland Tales w/ guest Andrew Cook (w/ his feedback & my capsule on 300, more capsules on Bonnie & Clyde, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, The Swimmer, Dr. Strangelove, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Darjeeling Limited, The Dark Knight, Gangs of New York, 500 Days of Summer, The Ring, Donnie Darko, The Box, Dog Day Afternoon, The Muppet Movie, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Witches, Heat, The Blair Witch Project, Edward Scissorhands, Election, Groundhog Day, Total Recall, Dick Tracy, archive readings of my reflections on the 00s decade, To Kill a Mockingbird, Breathless & much, much more including feedback/media/work updates) + 3 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances
My decade series reaches its apotheosis with a couple apocalyptic auteur visions rooted deeply in their respective eras, as well as two archives of my own work on the sixties and zeroes
Temporarily resuming the Unseen series for one last Marvel, a self-consciously nostalgic throwback to World War II
Marie Antoinette from 1938 (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #48)
Marie Antoinette from 1938 (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #48)
Continuing the "fallen royal" theme from the previous episode, this 1938 biopic concludes a season of Classic Hollywood
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #45: Season 3 Part 16 (The Return - "No Knock, No Doorbell") podcasts & illustrated companion
LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #45: Season 3 Part 16 (The Return - "No Knock, No Doorbell") podcasts & illustrated companion
As always when this pre-finale comes up, my eye is on the Cooper and Diane storylines (while historical context incorporates a marquee boxing match)
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #17 w/ Twin Peaks: Evangelion hosts Craig & Vinny (YouTube & extended PATREON) premieres on Wednesday
TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS #17 w/ Twin Peaks: Evangelion hosts Craig & Vinny (YouTube & extended PATREON) premieres on Wednesday
A concept right up my alley - not just viewing the Lynch/Frost mystery and the Hideaki Anno anime side by side but also out of order, starting with The Return and the Rebuild films
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0
Seven years after (temporarily) concluding my Evangelion series, it's time to say our final farewell to Shinji and the gang with a written review of the recent Rebuild
Rashomon as Twin Peaks Cinema #20 - Disordered Stories (podcast)
Rashomon as Twin Peaks Cinema #20 - Disordered Stories (podcast)
The "disordered stories" season finishes with the granddaddy of them all, Akira Kurosawa's recollection of a crime told not just out of order but from wildly inconsistent perspectives
December 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #98: Holiday Special / Continuing the 60s... The Apartment (+ capsules on How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, 00s archive reading of A Christmas Tale, Andrew Cook's further reflections on 300 & 00s cinema + my plans for the 3 big Twin Peaks projects, feedback/media/work updates & more)
December 2022 Patreon round-up • LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #98: Holiday Special / Continuing the 60s... The Apartment (+ capsules on How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, 00s archive reading of A Christmas Tale, Andrew Cook's further reflections on 300 & 00s cinema + my plans for the 3 big Twin Peaks projects, feedback/media/work updates & more)
Christmas and New Year's continue the decade theme with a warm-hearted sixties satire and a trio of capsules on classic animated specials from a few years later
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (The Unseen 2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (The Unseen 2010)
Digging into a quintessential turn-of-the-decade film which captures the millennial ascension by paying tribute to comic books and video games
2023 on Lost in the Movies: Finally the Characters, Pausing the Podcasts, and the Final Journey (status update)
2023 on Lost in the Movies: Finally the Characters, Pausing the Podcasts, and the Final Journey (status update)
Having failed to reach several crucial deadlines, I lay out my plans for the upcoming year
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