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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!---in bite-sized articles perfect …
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 …
“Harold’s world was in his words. The suicide note has to be a message.” These were the words spoken by Donna Hayward to Agent Dale Cooper after the body of Harold Smith was found hanged in his orchid nursery. His home was trashed, pages of Laura Palmer's secret diary torn and scattered across the floor. …
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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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Martin Hearn recently caught up with Steve Lange to talk about his hilarious musical parody video, Chad! The video premiered at the Twin Peaks UK Festival and has since taken the Twin Peaks community by storm. Take it away Steve! MH: Chad is absolutely brilliant and such a joy to watch, how and when did …
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Wednesday September 5, 3.30 AM. I have experienced something both wonderful and strange. An encounter with the stars, and local fans, has exceeded expectations. Yet a feeling of unease remains. I will need to investigate further. Thursday September 13, 9.31 AM. The following pages will hopefully unpack this experience. They contain a recounting of the …
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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with director Ben Eckstein about his upcoming film Zero Fucks, which is about to enter the crowdfunding stage to help with post-production costs. This film has a really interesting concept and there's a large Twin Peaks presence in the cast that we speak about. I hope you enjoy …
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 …
What do Margaret Lanterman (the Log Lady) and Buckaroo Banzai have in common? Those big red glasses, an infrastructure of vision. A pair of glasses is both an object and a mediating relationship between other objects--the viewer and the viewed, or, the focalizer and the focalized, to put it in visual narrative terminology. Those …
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