"I figured one day I'd just wake up and and find out what the hell yesterday was all about. I'm not too keen on thinkin' about tomorrow...and today's slipping by."
-- Nikki Grace, Inland Empire
It is happening again...My amazing co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! In this final (?) episode, we finally discuss Inland Empire, the 2006 psychological thriller film directed by David Lynch, featuring Laura Dern as Nikki Grace/Sue Blue, Jeremy Irons as Kingsley Stewart, Justin Theroux as Devon Berk/Billy Side, and Harry Dean Stanton as Freddie Howard!
LET'S ROCK
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like the past seven years of Ghostwood bringing us closer together as friends, where we've been for the past three months, the strange coincidence of 126 being our Inland Empire episode number, Inland Empire being the David Lynch film that disturbs Xan the most, Grace Zabriskie being great at playing uncomfortable characters, running down the various Twin Peaks and David Lynch veterans in this film, Inland Empire being the first Lynch feature shot on digital in standard definition, what the film's title actually refers to, Axxon N. originally being planned as a 9-episode mystery drama series for David Lynch's website, Lynch introducing screenings of the film with a quote from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad that included the words "We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream", Inland Empire having a very limited theatrical run, Nikki's bizarre encounter with her new neighbor Visitor #1, Nikki's husband Piotrek not being happy that Nikki got her movie role, Nikki and Devon's appearance on The Marilyn Levens Starlight Celebrity Show, the movie On High in Blue Tomorrows being a remake of a movie that was never finished that was based on a Polish folk story said to be cursed, the mysterious Valley Girls, Sue and Smithy's backyard party, Sue's encounter with Visitor #2, Smithy beating Sue because she's pregnant and he can't father children, Sue dying on Hollywood Blvd. with a bunch of street people, Sue's reality transitioning back to Nikki's, Nikki shooting the Phantom and kissing the Lost Girl, the Lost Girl being reunited with her family, the end credits sequence where the Valley Girls dance to Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", former Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten, this film being David Lynch's commentary on infidelity, Inland Empire not being as rewatchable as other David Lynch films, the glaring absence of Angelo Badalamenti in this film, why we're ending Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast, hoping our Ghostwood listeners join us over on Drunk Cinema, the two best ways to end a Twin Peaks podcast, and more!
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