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Mirrors of Kane video series directory
TrailerChapter 1 - "Meeting Kane"Chapter 2 - "Thatcher"Chapter 3 - "Bernstein"Chapter 4 - "Leland"Chapter 5 - "Susan"Chapter 6 - "Raymond"Chapter 7 - "Ring Around the Rosebud"MIRRORS OF KANE (complete...
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Ring Around the Rosebud: Mirrors of Kane video series concludes
Watch Mirrors of Kane Chapter 7 on YouTube:In a sprawling eighteen-minute video essay (the longest chapter so far in any of my series save for two of Journey Through Twin Peaks' thirty-six), I wrap up...
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Writing film columns (& more) at The Laker - Ken Burns & The American Revolution
Earlier this year, I began writing articles on random subjects for a group of free local publications in New Hampshire, and in July this transitioned into a regular column for The Laker, titled...
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Mirrors of Kane continues w/ "Raymond" chapter (video)
Watch Mirrors of Kane Chapter 6 on YouTube:Raymond the butler's flashback is brief and to the point, a single scene offering a key to Kane's dying words. Nonetheless, the sequence contains riches worth...
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Mirrors of Kane continues w/ "Susan" chapter (video)
Watch Mirrors of Kane Chapter 5 on YouTube:My summer of Kane continues with the only female narrator of Kane's story - although at one point in pre-production, the screenwriters considered having his...
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Summer 2026 Project Update: Journey Through Twin Peaks "Americana" chapter &...
Every turn-of-the-season (this one is publishing at the exact minute of the summer solstice), I'm offering readers of this website an update on my three major unfinished projects: the Journey Through...
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Beyond the Countdowns: Allan Fish's Film & TV Reviews
For the tenth annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, where I am cross-posting this round-up, I couldn't think of a better way to pay tribute to the late critic than to lead you right back to his own...
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Mirrors of Kane continues w/ "Leland" chapter (video)
Watch Mirrors of Kane Chapter 4 on YouTube:Jedediah Leland is Kane's close friend and eventually his bitter enemy. Writing about the narrators of Kane's life in an essay fifteen years ago, I had a very...
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Citizen Kane at 85 (video): Returning to conclude Mirrors of Kane this...
Ten years ago - exactly, to the day - I celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of Citizen Kane by announcing a video essay series on the movie, focused around the five narrators of Charles Foster...
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Spring 2026 Project Update: Mirrors of Kane complete, Journey Through Twin...
Every turn-of-the-season (this one is publishing at the exact minute of the vernal equinox), I'm offering readers of this website an update on my four major unfinished projects: the Journey Through...
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December 2025 Patreon round-up: 2025 American Generations Reflections +...
Following last year's tradition, even though there is a bonus $5/month tier reward I could have featured in the top image, I'm going instead with the $1/month advance - in this case, a screenshot of...
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TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS bonus podcast premieres tonight on Jane Austen's...
An eccentric pairing has recently gained uncanny relevance for me - as well as for others. When I first heard of the Jane Austen/David Lynch podcast Manners & Madness, I found it to be a delightful...
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November 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #12: The...
First suggested by a patron following my episode on The Zone of Interest last year, Luchino Visconti's 1969 melodrama The Damned - set during the rise of dictatorship in thirties Germany - provides a...
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belated October 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Conversation on Andor w/...
Due to other Patreon commitments and the length of time this took to transcribe, my discussion with Riley MacDonald about the Disney Plus Star Wars series Andor (whose second season ended in May) has...
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belated September 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast...
After hovering among patron submissions and even the occasional runoff poll for a year and a half, nearly since I began soliciting topics for the Films in Focus podcast, Craig Zobel's 2012...
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August 2025 Patreon round-up including Advanced Script for Journey Through...
Americana is the theme on Patreon this month as I continued, for the top patron tier, a conversation with David Lynch's American Dreamscape author Mike Miley begun in a public YouTube video (the whole...
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TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS bonus podcast premieres tonight w/ David Lynch's...
Early this year when I stumbled across a YouTube trailer for an upcoming book titled David Lynch's American Dreamscape, full of clips that exhibited Lynch's keen eye for postwar American iconography...
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July 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #10: Anora
Although it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes over a year ago, Anora is currently the most recent piece of media I've covered; its orthographic neighbor Andor, which concluded in May, will take its place...
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June 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Completing the Star Wars saga w/ The...
During a period from 2010 to 2018, Star Wars was a frequent subject on this site; in over a dozen pieces including written reviews, podcasts, visual tributes, and video essays I covered every existing...
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May 2025 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Films in Focus podcast #9: Eve's Bayou
Suggested to me by a patron who very much emphasized its Twin Peaks connections, Kasi Lemmons' 1997 debut feature Eve's Bayou yields more discussion of that aspect than most of my other podcast...
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