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This is a guest article from our dear friend, Jill Watson. We hope you enjoy her telling of the working weekend she spent with Sheryl Lee and Gary Hershberger at The Actors Director Workshop. I'm riding a high. I've been touched by an angel. I've been touched by TWO angels. I'm on cloud nine. Hell …
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This article concludes my Twin Peaks Backstory Investigations series. This time I’m going to change the medium, shifting from films that are significant to characters or creators to the print literature work that David Lynch has named as a favorite from Eraserhead-days interviews to the present. And no one could forget the presence of Kafka’s …
One of David Lynch’s most widely quoted remarks is “I want a dream when I go to a film.” He’s offered a list of films that deliver a dream so well he’d watch them “every other day if [he] had the time.” The list is very short and very consistent. This week’s Backstory Investigation explores …
Welcome all! So it's not quite over yet but 2018 is almost at an end. All of us here at 25YL would like to thank all our readers for all the support you have given us over the last 20 months. As we move closer to our second birthday, we're planning some big changes! So …
Twin Peaks Backstory Investigations looks at the film and television that influenced David Lynch & Mark Frost when they created their wonderful and strange TV Show. For the third in the series, Andy Hageman takes a look at Alfred Hitchcocks, Rear Window. In the “Heroes of Film” chapter of his 2007 book, Catching the Big …
If you're anything like me, the holidays are stressful. There's lots to do and not a lot of time to do it. And then there's the whole gift-giving part. Sometimes you just don't know what to get. Here at 25YL, we've compiled a list of some fun gifts to give the TV fan in your …
Twin Peaks Backstory Investigations looks at the film and television that influenced David Lynch & Mark Frost when they created their wonderful and strange TV Show. For the second in the series, we take a look at: Body Heat. When Agent Tamara Preston is working her way through a file found in the Bookhouse entitled …
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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Twin Peaks Backstory Investigations looks at the film and television that influenced David Lynch & Mark Frost when they created their wonderful and strange TV Show. Starting the series off is: The FBI Story The very first autobiographical entry that thirteen year old Dale Cooper made on an audiotape, recorded December 25th 1967, featured the …
One of the many life lessons I’ve adopted from Twin Peaks is FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper’s advice, “When two separate events occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object of inquiry, we must always pay strict attention.” Well, the two separate events that I’m colliding here to share are very recent screenings of David Lynch’s …
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