Damn Fine TV/Film
Author's Note: This movie has been out for 59 years, so I should not have to post a spoiler alert, but if you have yet to see it (you can find it on Amazon), then spoilers to follow. I am not what you would call a lover of the horror genre. Let me change that …
Blue Velvet premiered 32 years ago today. Since watching Blue Velvet for the first time quite a while ago, it has always stuck with me. For this edition of Lynch Night, I chose to delve into the theme that keeps coming back to me after watching it, again and again, duality. “I learned that just …
Twin Peaks is a phenomenon that not everyone gravitates toward. For those who do, David Lynch and Mark Frost create a world, a community, and an environment where people feel completely at home. Within that home, the characters they create place themselves snuggly into our orbits, especially the women. In re-watching the original run of …
It goes without saying that I am an extreme fan of Twin Peaks. There has been a great many of us that have been divided over Twin Peaks: The Return and its unfamiliar pacing, material, approach. I have embraced every frame as I did the original, even though this was not the Twin Peaks I remembered. I …
Continue reading "Doughnuts, Dreams, and Damn Good Cherry Pie: Return Rewatch Part 11"
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews… you name it, we’ve got it. “Favorites” takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites – whether it’s moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever! …
Continue reading "Favorites: Top Five Twin Peaks Dance Moments"
Editor's Note: This interview has been updated to give proper credit to the photographer of the fantastic picture used as the featured image. We'd like to thank Brittyn for bringing it to our attention. Little known fact about me, I was what you would call a theater geek. More importantly than that, a theater geek …
Continue reading "Interview with Debbie Zoller, Twin Peaks: The Return Makeup Department Head"
If you told me five years ago that Twin Peaks was going to come back to television, I would have thought you were crazy. If you then told me that once it came back that I was going to write for one of the most well regarded Twin Peaks sites out there, again I would …
Continue reading "Split Screens Festival 2018: Behind the Podium – A Fan Theorist’s Experience"
Those of you who have followed my writing on 25 Years Later, know that I have an extreme fondness of The Log Lady, brilliantly played by Catherine Coulson. Where people saw a quirky character who carried a log, I saw a kindred soul who had much to teach us and the citizens of Twin Peaks. …
Continue reading "‘I Know Catherine, The Log Lady’: An Interview with Richard Green"
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews… you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites - whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever! …
Continue reading "Favorites: Top Five Film Soundtracks/Scores"
From the beginning, when FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper asks, “Who’s the lady with the log?”[1] I was fascinated by Margaret “The Log Lady” Lanterman and her story. How did she become The Log Lady? Was she always in tune to the trees, owls, and the nature of Twin Peaks around her? Could she always …