In this episode, J. M. Tyree, the editor of Film Quarterly discusses a dossier of articles about David’s Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive on its 25th anniversary with dossier editor Eileen G’Sell.

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Articles mentioned:

1. Eileen G’Sell; Uncanny Intimacies, Abject Desires. Film Quarterly Fall 2026; 80 (1): 26-29. Link

2. Laura Westengard; The Radical Intimacy of Rot: Mulholland Drive's Queer Proliferations. Film Quarterly Fall 2026; 80 (1): 30-35. Link

3. Lori Jo Marso; Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This): David Lynch, Simone de Beauvoir, and “Feeling Like a Feminist”. Film Quarterly Fall 2026; 80 (1): 36-41. Link

4. Temperance Aghamohammadi; “That’s Not My Voice”: Telephonic Logics and Paranoid Listening in Mulholland Drive. Film Quarterly Fall 2026; 80 (1): 42-47. Link

5. Eileen G’Sell; “This Is the Girl”: Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts, and the Double Abjection of the Hollywood Starlet(s). Film Quarterly Fall 2026; 80 (1): 48-56. Link

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J. M. Tyree is the editor-in-chief of Film Quarterly and an associate professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts.

A Rabkin winner for arts journalism, Eileen G'Sell is a film critic and teaching professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

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