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Interview with Lynch/Oz Director

Alexandre O. Philippe has directed many films about films. His specialty is to take something we know well (the shower scene in Psycho, the fights between fans of Star Wars and George Lucas) and make us see things in a new way. In his latest film Lynch/Oz, he creates a documentary that digs deep into how The Wizard of Oz influenced the films of David Lynch.

The poster for Lynch/OZ

I was able to interview Philippe at the Dallas Lynch Retrospective moments after seeing the film for the first time. Now, after much thought, and settling down a bit, I invited him to be my guest on It’s Our Time with Scott Ryan. We discuss how he came up with the idea of just using film clips, why Lynch fans should see this in the theater over at home, and a bit about his favorite Lynch film, Lost Highway. You can head out Janus Films to get the schedule of where the film will play and you can watch my interview right here.

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Surprise Guest from FWWM Interview

Listen to this episode of The Red Room Podcast before your friend does. Scott Ryan interviews someone from Fire Walk With Me that has NEVER been interviewed before. No clues here. Just listen and enjoy. This interview is to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Fire Walk With Me. Special Thanks to Dugpa and Steven Miller for doing the research. You won’t want to miss this podcast. Also be sure to pick up Scott Ryan’s book about Fire Walk With Me that interviews Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer) and cast and crew. Also subscribe to the latest issue of the Blue Rose magazine which covers Lost Highway or preorder Scott’s upcoming Lost Highway book.

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David Lynch Film Festival in Chicago

Daniel Knox joins The Red Room to discuss his upcoming, week long, David Lynch Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. You can get tickets by clicking here.

Listen to Scott and Daniel explain the week, what is going on and what to expect. Scott will be on hand all week long to do the Q&A’s with Charlotte Stewart and Duwayne Dunham. Scott will also be selling The Blue Rose’s new subscription and his new Fire Walk With Me book. Come see EVERY Lynch film in 35MM on the big screen.

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Fire Walk With Me Book Blog Part 1

In May 2022 my new book Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared will be released. Over the next few months, I will be giving readers a sneak peek at this 30th anniversary look at David Lynch’s film in the Twin Peaks franchise.

Over the July 4th weekend, I took a trip back to Twin Peaks. No, I didn’t pop in the DVDs or stream it for the last time on Netflix.  I boarded a plane and flew to Snoqualmie, Washington, the filming site of FWWM. In September 1991, director David Lynch and his cast and crew filmed around the sleepy Washington area. One of the places they filmed was at Olallie state park which became the setting for much of Deer Meadow, the first half hour of the film. I used my vaccination and Washington state’s 70% vaccine rate to justify my first trip back to this location in a few years. My first trip to the area was captured in my 2015 documentary A Voyage to Twin Peaks. [This 35 minute look at the final year of the Twin Peaks fan festival is available for rent on Amazon.] It is such a rare opportunity for a television fan to get to visit the filming locations and feel like you are actually in a fictional town that you watched on your home screen. Most TV shows film in a sound stage so there isn’t much opportunity to visit the actual locations.

The location of the autopsy of Teresa Banks, now with a sign saying Private Property.

At Olallie state park, you can see the exterior of the Deer Meadow Sheriff station, and if you are invited in, the interior as well. In 2015, I got to go inside and see Sheriff Cable’s office and the waiting room where the secretary didn’t have coffee, but had a phone with a little ring. The house used to be the Ranger’s station, and even had a WiFi router called Deer Meadow.  They were happy to allow entry to fans of FWWM. Things had changed since my last visit. The small house now seemed to be a residence and had signs posted in the front, back, and side explaining this was private property. So approaching the building where Chet and Sam conducted the Teresa Banks autopsy was not a good idea, unless you wanted to meet the actual local authorities. 

The river that Teresa Banks floats down while wrapped in plastic.

Instead, I walked down to the river and saw the location where Banks’s body floated down the river. I walked through the woods and saw Jack Rabbit’s palace from Twin Peaks: The Return, the tree that Alicia Witt’s character huddled behind, and the spot where Laura and Bobby buried Deputy Cliff’s body. (Or the half-hearted attempt to bury it. I mean seriously how did this body never show up? Must have been the three sticks Bobby put on his body.) In my upcoming book, I interview Ron Garcia who was the director of photography for the film. He tells a great story about filming in these woods and how he tussled with Lynch on this scene. Garcia says, “I think I was just ornery that night.”

Jack Rabbit’s Palace has seen better days. It has crumbled since the filming of The Return.

This was just one of the places I visited to get new photos for the book. I am planning on offering a full color version of the book which readers will only be able to get when they are ordered through the Blue Rose or FMP websites. The rest of the outlets will have a black and white, pod version so this might be a reason to not order from the American church of Amazon. If you already placed the order from me, you will get the color version, providing we can make it happen. It will depend on preorders and interest in the book. I am working on a few other surprises, but I can’t tell you about that. 

Part 2 covers my overnight stay at the Salish. Thanks for supporting all my projects and remember to order the Art issue of the Blue Rose which Blake Morrow, The Women of David Lynch cover, is curating. Maybe he will print one of my pictures from the bottom of the falls? Doubtful, I don’t have that kind of pull. 

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Twin Peaks Cast Q and A

Scott Ryan hosts two Q&A’s at the Mahoning Drive-in’s David Lynch Weekend. The event sold out so you might have missed the panel. Don’t worry, we have the audio from both panels right here on Episode 190 of The Red Room Podcast. Scott interview Charlotte Stewart the first night about Eraserhead and Twin Peaks. Night 2, Scott interviews Dana Ashbrook (Bobby Briggs), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy), Charlotte Stewart (Mary X, Betty Briggs) and a special guest.

Thanks to Faye Murman for planning the event (It was the most professional event Scott has ever attended). Please support The Blue Rose Magazine buy picking up a book or magazine or pre-order Scott’s 2022 book Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared. All the support helps. Also, be sure to email The Blue Rose Magazine and get on our mailing list. Then you won’t miss the next event like this.

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Podcast: Twin Peaks Event in Columbus

July 19-21, Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise came to Columbus, Ohio to attend 4 showings of Fire Walk With Me. Scott Ryan from The Blue Rose magazine was at all four showings and is here to tell you all about it. Josh Minton from Red Room and Skeleton Key was there as well. So Scott & Josh discuss the event.

Then Scott talks with Xan Sprouse from Ghostwood Podcast and Megan Long, a new Twin Peaks fan with an unpopular opinion, and Mike McGraner who planned the entire event. This is the longest podcast we have ever done, sorry about all that.

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Martha P Nochimson Podcast

On Episode 168 of The Red Room Podcast, Scott Ryan welcomes author and Lynch scholar Martha P. Nochimson. She has a new book coming out called Television rewired: The Rise of The Auteur Series. This book covers many of the series that has changed TV over the past 20 years: The Sopranos, X-Files, Mad Men, The Wire, Girls and Twin Peaks. Being the Red Room, we focus on Lynch and Twin Peaks. Listen to this deep dive into Season 3 and the original series. Nochimson lays out all the threads in Season 3 and ties them together as well as anyone has. This is the book that Twin Peaks fans have been waiting for.

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We’ve Been Given A Green Butt Skunk

Some people give flowers, some a Starbucks gift card, some an edible fruit arrangement. All are pretty good gifts from a co-worker. But, when Harry S. Truman was tasked with getting a going away present for a two-and-half-week visitor to his town, he settled on something a little bit different. Harry gave Special Agent Dale Cooper a “Green Butt Skunk” fishing lure. He explained that when those fish are heading up stream they are thinking of only one thing: SEX. Nothing can break their concentration more than a Green Butt Skunk. This summer I feel like Mark Frost & David Lynch gave me a Green Butt Skunk, and I couldn’t be more thankful.

If there is one rule in 2017, it is to not get political with strangers. At any moment things can get ugly. You live in your bubble and I live in mine. Its the law. We try really hard not to burst any bubbles around here. I will not take a stand on politics, but I will say, no matter which side of the stream you were swimming on in May 2017, there was probably only one thing on your mind: The state of our country. Things were bad in May, they are worse in August. Again, no matter what side you are on, chances are, you think the other side is really, really wrong. What could possibly turn our segregated heads? A Green Butt Skunk.

Frost & Lynch dropped that lure into the waters of television and the school of television fans, starving for something new, changed direction and all swam together. Yes, even me, who had theories that contradicted with EVERYONE ELSE. (I still wanna believe that Richard Horne is from Johnny, but I doubt even the Red Room small gold ball can make that happen.) The distraction I was given this summer has been so much fun. So rewarding.

Every Sunday night, I was taken away to another world…and sometimes multiple worlds. Afterwards my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram feed was filled with theories, pictures, quotes and Memes. It was nice to see us all wondering where the music was. Wondering where Big Ed was. Heck, just plain getting to wonder was a gift. Not knowing is fun, isn’t it? What’s the fun in knowing? You want to KNOW something, turn on the news. Was that fun?

That has always been my favorite part of Twin Peaks. As I write this, we are days away from the ending of Twin Peaks: The Return (TPR). I don’t know if we will get answers, but I am kind of hoping we don’t. Just dangle another lure in front of me and make me swim in another direction.

On September 4th, we will go back to a life without a sprawling mystery to wonder about. I will deeply miss my Sunday routine. I will miss my Monday morning, afternoon and evening calls with my Twin Peaks friends in different time zones. Arguing about gold orbs, if the Nine Inch Nails song was too long, or discussing a fake website that you could actually go to. How about the people that typed in the coordinates to find where Mr. C was going to? I love those people. It was all just so much fun. It was a television experience that will never be repeated because it can’t. No other show will wait 25 years to answer a question like Who’s Judy.  I think its The America girl, or the girl in 1945, or Diane or I think its Laura…no Sarah. (See what I mean. It is fun not knowing.)

So we will all go back to our lives, and will, of course, still talk about Twin Peaks. John Thorne, Courtenay Stallings, the Blue Rose Magazine staff and I are just getting started with our analysis of this 18 part fishing lure. There is line from the new series that took place in a scene that I will eventually dissect in an upcoming essay. It was from my favorite new characters in TPR, The Mitchum Brothers.

People are under a lot of stress. TPR relieved it for a moment, changed the story in my mind and gave me the most fun experience I ever had watching a piece of art on television. Will there be things to pick apart and argue about? Of course, it wouldn’t be Twin Peaks if there wasn’t. Some of it is supposed to please us, some of it is suppose to enrage us and some of it is just to distract us from our lives.

So to Mark Frost, David Lynch and Sabrina Sutherland I say, “Thank you so much for my gift. It worked. You caught me. Hook. Line and Green Butt Skunk Sinker.”

Scott Ryan is the managing Editor of the Twin Peaks Magazine, The Blue Rose. Order the Dougie Special to get all 4 issues. Follow on Twitter.


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130 Twin Peaks Parts 5-6

Scott & Josh are back discussing parts 5 & 6 of Twin Peaks: The Return. We have comic book artist and writer, Jeff Lemire who was inspired by Twin Peaks. We also have John Thorne (The Blue Rose, Wrapped in Plastic). We talk about parts 5 & 6 on this, if you want to hear us talk about parts 1-4, click here.

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Twin Peaks Really Is Coming Back

As a life long Twin Peaks fan, I am more accustomed to waiting and hoping than I am to receiving. I mean think of it. I have loved Twin Peaks since 1990. That means that since the show went off the air in June 1991, I have had only 3 releases spread over 26 years.

  1. Fire Walk With Me in 1992.
  2. The Twin Peaks Music Archives in 2011. (Only had to wait 20 years for those bad boys.)
  3. The Deleted Scenes in 2014.

That is about it. Now, you are telling me that in a few short weeks I am going to see NEW TWIN PEAKS. I don’t know how to process that. Big Ed and I are used to being in the doghouse. We are not accustomed to living it up in a Great Northern suite.

I was one of those that never believed that Lynch/Frost would ever return to Twin Peaks. I have never been happier to be wrong. I think to us long term-ers this release has to be viewed through the prism of Star Wars. We all expected so much from Episode 1. We were given Jar Jar Binks. Then when Episode 7 came out and they gave us pure nostalgia; everyone rejoiced. I don’t think either of those options are viable to Lynch. He is incapable of giving us Jar Jar and he has never made any art that is pure nostalgia. So then what will we get? We will get David Lynch.

I have no expectations about new Twin Peaks on Showtime May 21st. What I do know is that I have loved every Lynch movie. (I don’t count Dune and Inland Empire, so I can say that sentence.) Lynch challenges a viewer. I love that. That is what drew me in back in the summer of 1990 when I watched the pilot episode with my girlfriend and her mom on their sunken couch. It played on one of those old television sets that was an actual piece of furniture. The couch I sat upon was referred to as a “davenport” and it rested on shag carpeting. Everything was old in that room but Twin Peaks. It seemed so fresh it practically warped the wood panelling that encased the screen. It inspired me as a college student. It spoke to me in a way that I can’t explain to my children 27 years later. “Dad, why do you like this old show?”

Only a few months later I had the Rolling Stone cover hanging in my room. There has never been a day since, that some piece of Twin Peaks art hasn’t hung on my wall. There isn’t a week that has gone by when I didn’t listen to Angelo’s music. I have travelled the world visiting filming locations and debuting movies I made about the show. I have done hours of podcasting on the series and have promoted a magazine that I co-created. There isn’t a day that I don’t text, tweet or Facebook another Twin Peaks fan. Sometimes I wonder if I am Leland and the series is Bob. Does it inhabit me or do I inhabit it?

So, I will spend these last few days of living in a time when Twin Peaks was only 29 episodes and a movie. Soon it will be more and so much more. Somehow, I have gone from that old rec-room to being in the position to cover the new series in a magazine, The Blue Rose. Somehow I have gone from a reader of Wrapped in Plastic, to working side by side with John Thorne. Somehow I have gone from looking at Sherilyn Fenn on my wall, to talking to her on the phone. You know, I know Charlotte Stewart. We talk. We email. How did this happen? Trust me, I have never taken the show or my good fortune for granted. I just love the series and all the people I have met.

So strap in folks. We have no idea what will come, but we know it will be wonderful and strange. And what is even more exciting is soon, we will have new phrases like that to use to end blogs and articles. Aren’t we all sick of trying to work them into our stuff?

I’m ready to sit down on a couch from any era. I am ready for new Twin Peaks, new phrases, new obsessions and new art for my wall.

SCOTT RYAN IS THE AUTHOR OF THIRTYSOMETHING AT THIRTY:AN ORAL HISTORY and THE MANAGING EDITOR OF THE BLUE ROSE MAGAZINE. FOR MORE INFORMATION from Scott Ryan Productions CLICK HERE.

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