June 2020 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #17 - Season 2 Episode 9 and...
No film is as deeply related to Twin Peaks' origins as the fifties melodrama Peyton Place, part of the pitch made to (rather than by) David Lynch and Mark Frost when their mutual agent suggested they...
View ArticleLaunching a public podcast - introductory episode
Yesterday I finally created a public podcast. Throughout 2020 it will open up episodes created for my Patreon show of two and a half years, with an emphasis on Ethan Hawke vehicles (beginning with the...
View ArticleFour Worlds in Pinocchio: a visual tribute
Images from the shop, the town, Pleasure Island, and the seaThe ShopThe TownPleasure IslandThe Sea
View ArticleLost in the Movies podcast #1 - Before Sunrise
  I originally planned to provide a podcast update once a month - patron, public, everything - but instead I've decided to create individual episode posts. My first official episode reviews Before...
View ArticleTwin Peaks Unwrapped - Season 3 Madness (w/ Josh Minton)
Last year, I joined Ben, Bryon, and rotating guests on the Twin Peaks Unwrapped podcast to undertake a ridiculous (and ridiculously enjoyable) attempt to "rank"David Lynch films, as well as the...
View ArticleLost in the Movies podcast #2 - Before Sunset
My public podcast continues its three-part Before trilogy and seven-part Ethan Hawke coverage with Before Sunset, Richard Linklater's sequel to the mid-nineties which finds how now-thirtysomethings...
View ArticleJuly Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #18 - Season 2 Episode 10 and LOST...
For the first time, an entire "Twin Peaks cinema" segment is devoted to a film I'd never seen before. The idea of covering The FBI Story in relation to Agent Cooper (and his associates) came to me when...
View ArticleLost in the Movies podcast #3 - Before Midnight
First Vienna, then Paris, now a Grecian island. First nineties, then zeroes, now the teens. First twentysomething, then thirtysomething, now fortysomething. And first meeting, then reuniting, then...
View ArticleLate Summer Update: Journey Through Twin Peaks + updates to Top Posts and the...
The short version is that hopefully I can finally publish the two missing chapters for my video essay series Journey Through Twin Peaks in September (I would love to have chapter 34 up by September 3,...
View ArticleMedium Cool (LEFT OF THE MOVIES podcast #1/LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #4)
A week after the Democratic Party's presidential convention (and the week of the Republican event) seemed like a good time to kick off my Left of the Movies podcast with Medium Cool. Haskell Wexler's...
View ArticleAugust 2020 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #19 - Season 2 Episode 11...
I originally planned to cover the surreal Robert Altman film 3 Women on my patron podcast this month, but at the last minute I was reminded that August 2020 is the seventieth anniversary of Sunset...
View ArticleBoyhood (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #5)
Is 2014 only or already six years ago? Boyhood chronicles a coming-of-age unfolding over a decade, leading up to the tail end of the Obama era (when the last of the millennials entered college). Given...
View ArticleJOURNEY THROUGH TWIN PEAKS: Original series collaborators (video debuts this...
Stay tuned and bookmark this post for more news and eventually, the next Journey Through Twin Peaks video chapter.Consider this post both an announcement and a placeholder for the next, long-delayed...
View ArticleFilms by Twin Peaks episode directors - Halloweentown, Zelly & Me, Now and...
For over a year, I've been publishing "Twin Peaks Cinema" podcasts on my Patreon, and now it's time to begin sharing them publicly. I decided to start with capsules on four features by Twin Peaks...
View ArticleNew path through Journey Through Twin Peaks
INTRODUCTIONSo far, I've outlined two schedules to help me create new Journey Through Twin Peaks video essays - and to make the process transparent for curious followers. The first "path," which took...
View ArticleGattaca (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #7)
When I decided to re-watch several Ethan Hawke films for my podcast, I don't think Gattaca was originally on my radar. However, hearing fans rave about it on another show reminded me of how I'd enjoyed...
View ArticleSeptember 2020 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #20 - Season 2 Episode 12...
For the first and hopefully only time, I needed to postpone my monthly patron rewards. For four months, I'd been promising a new Journey Through Twin Peaks chapter only to run into obstacles and...
View ArticleDead Poets Society (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #8) - coming soon
Although it's important for me to establish a routine by publishing a new podcast every couple weeks, right now it's even more important to follow the path I laid out for Journey Through Twin Peaks and...
View ArticleOctober 2020 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN THE TWIN PEAKS #21 - Season 2 Episode...
October features a few timely themes on my patron podcasts. I will be opening up my coverage of Twin Peaks' killer's reveal episode to all patrons on Halloween (not only an appropriately haunting...
View ArticleA Week on Hold: status update
For obvious reasons - the presidential election which is, as of this writing three days later, still ongoing - much of my activity has ground to a halt this week. Normally a new podcast would have gone...
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