Film critic and writer Damon Houx is finally rewarded for making himself scarce for the podcast’s entire run until now. Your reward is that Allie watched a David Lynch movie in addition to this episode, and she reveals more about her Lynchian music-making plans.

Crack open a Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Episode 21 (22 including The Pilot, or S02E14).

Show Notes and Links

• Damon Houx is on Twitter, has written for a swath of sites including Screen Crush among others, and did some of the best film writing of the era as Andre Dellamorte on CHUD
• Blue Velvet
• The Straight Story
• Damon mentions that he thinks Straight Story evokes a director named "Ozu". He means Yasujirō Ozu.
• Moisés, who produces Fire Talk With Me and runs ESN, started a comprehensive retrospective series geared toward people who don't know Ozu called Cinema Ozu in 2010, which he revised and restarted in 2012 as Discovering Ozu.
• In 2015, Ozu is getting some dedicated airtime on ESN. Listen to Criterion Collected for more soon.