Mulholland Drive at 25: Film Quarterly

Summary

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. “Uncanny Intimacies, Abject Desires,” by Eileen G’Sell (Film Quarterly 80 no. 1, Fall 2026)
  2. “The Radical Intimacy of Rot: Mulholland Drive's Queer Proliferations,” by Laura Westengard (Film Quarterly 80 no. 1, Fall 2026)
  3. “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This): David Lynch, Simone de Beauvoir, and ‘Feeling Like a Feminist’,” by Lori Jo Marso (Film Quarterly 80 no. 1, Fall 2026)
  4. “‘That’s Not My Voice’: Telephonic Logics and Paranoid Listening in Mulholland Drive,” by Temperance Aghamohammadi (Film Quarterly 80 no. 1, Fall 2026)
  5. “‘This Is the Girl’: Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts, and the Double Abjection of the Hollywood Starlet(s),” by Eileen G’Sell (Film Quarterly 80 no. 1, Fall 2026)

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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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J. M. Tyree

J. M. Tyree (Ph.D., Lancaster University) is an associate professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts and editor-in-chief of Film Quarterly (University of California Press), the oldest academic film journal in the United States. He was a Keasbey Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His research spans film criticism and critical-creative writing, including the books BFI Film Classics: Salesman (Bloomsbury), in the series on essential classic movies from the British Film Institute, and The Haunted Screen (Deep Vellum), a novella about cinema.

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