The Friday Article Roundup: Puzzles and Connections
This week You Will Learn… About the web of connections between the native indie film…
The Rotten Dostoevsky Gene
The thing I like most about The Sopranos is that its influences are both obvious…
Year of the Month: ERASERHEAD and the Ways Movies Change
Listen: Ron Burgundy has come unstuck in time. It’s autumn, 2012. I’m lying on a…
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Persia on DUNE
Frank Herbert’s novel Dune is a sprawling epic, crossing planets and decades and centering on…
Taco Break: Dream On
When thinking of dreamlike films and filmmakers, I’m guessing the name that comes to most…
And Then I Woke Up: Twin Peaks
This essay has references to rape, incest, and pedophilia. Needless to say, it also has…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on Lost Highway
[There are SPOILERS for Lost Highway at your house right now.] David Lynch has…
Year of the Month: George “Ice Cream Planet” Edwards on Coming of Age, Coming Out, and the Strange Journey Down David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
It begins with an accident. A car accident. One that shatters the identity of an…
Film on the Disc: THE STRAIGHT STORY
The first time I saw The Straight Story, I cried. I knew who David Lynch was,…
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
It’s been over a week since Twin Peaks: The Return has finished spinning its tale. I’m…