"We've met before, haven't we."
"I don't think so. Where was it you think we met?"
"At your house. Don't you remember?"
"No. No, I don't. Are you sure?"
"Of course. As a matter of fact, I'm there right now."
-- Mystery Man and Fred Madison, Lost Highway
It is happening again...My amazing co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! This time, we discuss the 2022 Criterion Collection release of Lost Highway, the 1997 neo-noir film directed by David Lynch, exploring the special features and interviews with David Lynch, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert Loggia, Balthazar Getty, and more!
LET'S ROCK
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan no longer having a uterus, why Xan and I are like toys in Toy Story, our original discussion of the Lost Highway film back in Episode 92, two of David Lynch's ex-wives appearing in the special features, the directors that Xan wants Criterion to release as a complete set, which David Lynch film we want next from Criterion, wondering why Criterion included the recent Lost Highway re-release trailer but not the original trailer, our disappointment that there aren't any original documentaries for the film's 25th anniversary, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me not having an audience beyond diehard Peaks Freaks, Lynch's unmade film project Dream of the Bovine, Patricia Arquette's excellent description of what Lost Highway is about, Lynch wanting to live in the limbo between what's real and what's not real, why you're damned if you see Robert Blake, my love for Hank Williams' song "Lost Highway", scenes from the script that didn't make it into the film, Toby Keeler's documentary "Pretty As a Picture" exploring David Lynch as a creative artist of different types, producer Deepak Nayar admitting that he's willing to lie to David Lynch to keep the best interest of the film's production, the real-life event at Bushnell Keeler's house that inspired the "fish in the percolator" scene on Twin Peaks, Jennifer Lynch and Austin Lynch being half-siblings, Bill Pullman learning how to play tenor saxophone to play two compositions for the film, Xan not being able to handle a spit valve, Patricia Arquette doing the film because she has a serious phobia about nudity, Robert Loggia blowing his fuse after waiting three hours to read for Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, Dean Stockwell liking every character in the Blue Velvet script except his character Ben, Mr. Eddy's fantastic rant against a tailgater, the Hollywood stereotype of people from the Midwest being really naive, someone ringing David Lynch's house intercom and saying "Dick Laurent is dead", Lynch's full recounting of how Frank Silva was cast as BOB on Twin Peaks, George Harrison financing Monty Python's Life of Brian, a special guest appearance by Xan's cat Will, Lynch being obsessed with the O.J. Simpson trial and how it inspired the theme of Lost Highway, an explanation of dissociative fugue, wanting to see David Lynch host a home renovation show, our upcoming four-film retrospective of the films that inspired David Lynch, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 120, as Xan and I begin our retrospective of films that inspired David Lynch with Rear Window, the 1954 mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Jimmy Stewart as L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies, Grace Kelly as Lisa Fremont, and Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald!
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