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March 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - May December + ADVANCE - TWIN PEAKS...
Although as you read this the ceremony is now several weeks in the past, at the time of writing I've just watched the Academy Awards last night. Though my awards season viewing got off to a strong...
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Appreciating the Ending of Twin Peaks • group discussion w/ the "Twin Peaks...
Following up on his last group discussion three and a half months ago - in which four guests offered formal analysis of four David Lynch scenes - Anthony of the "Twin Peaks Grammar" YouTube channel has...
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TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS bonus podcast w/ Black Rose director Cameron...
Two years after his last guest appearance to promote the epic four-hour fan film Queen of Hearts, Cameron Cloutier is back on Twin Peaks Conversations with a new project that's just getting going (a...
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belated April 2024 Patreon round-up including TWIN PEAKS Character Series...
For the first time since 2012, a calendar month passed without any posts on this main site. I couldn't publish this round-up until early May because one of the April rewards was delayed: part two of...
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Teresa With a T fan film added alongside Black Rose project (TWIN PEAKS...
Josh Eisenstadt has decided to go forward with his fan film Teresa With a T, which we initially discussed (alongside some related Fire Walk With Me analysis) while recording Twin Peaks Conversations...
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May 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #3: The Zone of...
I hoped and suspected that The Zone of Interest would be the next film patrons picked for me to cover following its prominence at the Academy Awards in March, where it won much-deserved prizes for Best...
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"The European Version": 'The Twin Peaks Pilot's Alternate Ending podcast for...
In its eighth year of celebrating unusual works which can be found for free online, the Allan Fish Online Film Festival is featuring a re-presented bonus from my Lost in Twin Peaks podcast, discussing...
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The Impossible Life of Robert Jacoby, 1927/31/40 - 1969/86? • discussion w/...
Visit/download the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or other platformsMy past two appearances on Creamed Corn and the Universe, at host Colin's suggestion, have covered two of the most obscure...
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belated June 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Conversation on The Boy and...
Two Japanese World War II-era fantasy films from 2023 involving dangerous creatures crown my $5/month tier rewards for June - and they're covered in an unusual way. At this point I'm leaving podcasts...
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belated July 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #4:...
Following my episode on The Zone of Interest a couple months ago, patrons chose Jonathan Glazer's earlier Birth as a follow-up. A film whose key moments unfold in close-ups, Birth is as intimate as...
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August 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Conversation on Killers of the...
Having already covered four of the big films of 2023 on Patreon, I'm finally catching up with the fifth and final title in that line-up. Barbie and Oppenheimer as well as The Boy and the Heron and...
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What happened in Room 315? • group discussion on the opening of Twin Peaks...
The slow waiter, the giant (or fireman?), the missing ring, the owls who aren't what they seem...the first scene of Twin Peaks' second season in 1990 is full of mysteries and in this group discussion...
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September 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #5: Safe...
In July, my $5/month tier patrons chose a podcast subject which echoed the previous episode in May: two Jonathan Glazer films back-to-back. Now the bimonthly poll has chosen to bookend that directorial...
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Journey Through Twin Peaks update: 10th anniversary & working on chapter 37 now
A decade ago today on October 1, 2014, not long after midnight, I uploaded my first Journey Through Twin Peaks video essay to Vimeo: the half-hour Part 1 (composed of five chapters) titled "Harmony of...
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Gadgets and Symbols in Twin Peaks (and our lives) • group discussion on...
Sometimes Anthony, the host of the "Twin Peaks Grammar" YouTube channel, provides an ornate, intense structure for our discussions and sometimes he takes a looser approach to see what bubbles up. This...
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TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS bonus podcast w/ John Thorne: the "lost episode"...
In the spring of 2023, as I was wrapping up my regular monthly Twin Peaks Conversations schedule, I recorded a "bonus" that I planned to use later, maybe as the last episode in this podcast, with my...
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belated October 2024 Patreon round-up including TWIN PEAKS Character Series...
Finally, another character entry has been advanced on Patreon. I missed the monthly cutoff for a number of reasons include an initial mistake about who should be next on the list, unnecessary...
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November 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #6:...
In the docket since January, the film Trenque Lauquen was finally chosen by patrons as the subject for my Films in Focus podcast in November for the $5/month tier. A fusion of historical romance,...
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TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS bonus podcast on Mulholland Drive premieres tonight...
For John Thorne, Mulholland Drive has not only been a vital experience in its own right but also -forgive the expression - a key to David Lynch's other work, particularly Twin Peaks. Many of John's...
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December 2024 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - 2024 American Generations...
In months when I'm not covering a particular film or TV show for the $5/month tier, I tend to use a group shot of Twin Peaks characters as my top image for a public round-up. These represent the...
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Rest in Peace David Lynch, 1946 - 2025
"Dust is dancing in the space...A dog and bird are far away...The sun comes up and down each day...The river flows out to the sea..."To write this tribute feels both alarmingly strange and sadly...
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The David Lynch Experience • group discussion w/ the Obnoxious and Anonymous...
(photo by Bonnie Schiffman) Today would have been David Lynch's 79th birthday - the perfect time to share this tribute I recorded with fellow fans on Thursday night. After the sad news on January 16, I...
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January 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #7: Evil...
Patrons selected a quiet but intense Japanese film to kick off 2025. Evil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's follow-up to the widely acclaimed Drive My Car, began production as something akin to a...
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belated February 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Breaking Bad season 2...
Years ago, I launched several months of first season viewing diaries by writing about each episode of Breaking Bad up to that season's finale. Other shows introduced to my site during that period -...
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March 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #8: Penda's Fen
Continuing the provincial theme of the last three episodes of the podcast (albeit without the urban component featured alongside the rural in Safe, Trenque Lauquen, and Evil Does Not Exist), Penda's...
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