Manners & Madness: A Jane Austen & David Lynch Podcast

This week for Folk Horror Summer we are watching Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Nymphlike girls clad in white, disturbing disappearances and mysterious landscapes give this classic a dreamlike quality that we found bewitching.

This week we are watching Mario Bava’s directorial debut, Black Sunday. It’s very atmospheric, a little vampiric, and chock full of curses and mayhem.

This week we timed our third Folk Horror Summer movie to align with the astrological calendar so we watched Midsommar for Midsummer. It was a very interesting movie that really captured the essence of Folk Horror and we had a lot to discuss.

This week we are covering Eve’s Bayou for Folk Horror Summer. Made in 1997 set in the 1960’s yet somehow timeless, this movie light on the horror but heavy on the atmosphere and excellent in every way.

This week we are kicking off Folk Horror Summer with a silent movie from 1922, Häxan. Not only is it about the history of witches but it a piece of the history of movie making and one of, if not the first, Folk Horror Movies.

This week we have a little bit of everything, our second Inland Empire watch, Jane Austen’s, The History of England written when she was just 15, and we talk about what’s on tap for Folk Horror Summer which starts next week.

This week we have reach episode 4 and it’s our last Twin Peaks for a little while. Luckily it’s an incredibly fun episode, chalk full of jokes, physical comedy, and silly situations.

This week we are covering part 3 of Twin Peaks season 3 aka The Return. We have new ethereal spaces, doppelgängers, jackpots, and calls for help.

This week we continue on with Twin Peaks Season 3, Part 2. So many mysteries and so few answers as of yet.

This week we are very excited to finally be starting Twin Peaks season 3. So many details, old friends and new, join us for this culminating series in our David Lynch exploration.

This week we covering the 2005 movie, The Jane Austen Book Club. a good cast, and fun concept but we still must ask ourselves, would we want to be in this book club?

This week we have one more loose end to wrap up before we start Twin Peaks season 3 and we’re glad we didn’t miss it. In a show that is spoiled with great soundtracks this may be the best of the bunch.

Back during our watchalong of Hallmark’s Loveuary we missed one, this week we go back and fix that, with our commentary on Paging Mr. Darcy.

We’ve been watching, listening and reading a lot of fun things lately and so we wanted to share them on the podcast.

This week we are covering the Twin Peaks season 2 soundtrack. This soundtrack has so much to discuss, it’s ‘50s, synthy, bluesy, jazzy, symphonic, and so much more. We really enjoyed this one!

This week is the thrilling conclusion to our coverage of 2008’s Sense and Sensibility. Will anything be different in this adaptation? Whose story is more important? What are the rules of duels? These are some of the many questions we ask/answer this episode.

This week we are on to the second episode of the 2008 Sense and Sensibility miniseries, in which we observe the majority of the Marianne/Willoughby drama.

This week we are starting the 2008 BBC/Masterpiece adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. It is very atmospheric and has a great cast.

This week we finishing up our thoughts on Inland Empire, seeking wisdom from other Lynchians, and finding out what our dreams say about us.

We couldn’t stop thinking of Catherine O’Hara so we decided to watch Beetlejuice and record a commentary track while we did it.

Join us this week as we watch the 2005 Pride and Prejudice and commentate upon it.

This week we finish our recap of Inland Empire. A movie where the closer you get the further away it seems.

This week we start our final David Lynch movie and it is a doozy. In part one of out Inland Empire coverage we try to make since of some of the disparate dream like elements and wonder is it the characters or us who are having memory problems.

This week we are counting down our ten favorite couples and ranking them from least healthy to most healthy relationship.

This week we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled fun break from reality, to actually talk about reality. Sometime you just need to talk about the moment and we decided to share that with you. We hope it doesn’t feel burdensome but helps us connect as humans going through troubling times.