Damn Fine TV/Film
Mark Frost’s sole outing as a film director is this 1992 New Orleans-set steamy melodrama, stuffed with as much classic deep south intrigue and faded bayou grandeur as he could lay his hands on, overlaid with a smattering of early ‘90s New Orleans seediness and neon-tinged erotica. 1992 is a pretty long time ago now, …
Lynch on Lynch was like a bible to me for many a year. At a time when the internet was just raring to go, but interviews were in short supply, I was grasping at any news clippings or snippets of Lynch-like goodness. To get a book from an interviewer/editor who really knew his subject, and …
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In Part 3 of this Final Dossier Deep Dive series, I brought up the section from Pages 131 to the end the book where Tamara Preston experiences a reality where Dale Cooper travelled back in time to 1989 and “saved” Laura Palmer from the immediate events that resulted in her death. I suggest this is …
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[Cooper] Who’s the lady with the log? [Truman] We call her the Log Lady. - Twin Peaks, pilot episode [Log Lady] One day my log will have something to say about this. - Twin Peaks, season 1, episode 1 Famously, neither David Lynch nor Mark Frost like to discuss publicly who contributed what bits to …
So we have reached the end of 25 Years Later's examining of Mark Frost's novel, The Secret History of Twin Peaks. I have been tasked with piecing together what is perhaps the most enigmatic and complex story---that of The Archivist himself; Major Garland Briggs. The big questions are why did he compile this Dossier? And …
Sports films are never really about the sport in focus, right? More often than not, the sport is a type of MacGuffin around which the plot is built (like with golf in the Mark Frost-scripted and produced movie The Greatest Game Ever Played) and is used to get us from point A to point B. …
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Just as it appears Dale Cooper is going through time loops in Season 3, restarting over and over with Phillip Gerard asking him "is it future or is it past" or Lodge Laura whispering in his ear, Mark Frost’s The Final Dossier presents us with a number of repeating cycles: of various inflicted traumas, of …
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In perfect time for the Halloween season, we are finally looking at Mark Frost’s screenplay for John Schlesinger’s 1987 film, The Believers. IMDb summarizes the plot as: “A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujería-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.”[1] Succinct as that summary is, there …
Podcasts made up a huge part of many fans’ experiences of Twin Peaks Season 3 last summer. In our feature, Pod People, we talk to the people behind the microphones of our favorite podcasts to find out what they’ve been up to and where they’re going next. “Welcome to Deer Meadow Radio. Where the owls are still …
Without Hill Street Blues, there is no Twin Peaks. That’s not only because Hill Street Blues had such a major impact on the police procedural TV genre, which Twin Peaks is heavily indebted to; or because Hill Street Blues was, like Twin Peaks, one of the first TV shows to receive such critical praise that …