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Join us on Fri., Jan. 31 for a screening of "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," followed by a conversation with Supervising Sound Editor Douglas Murray and UC Santa Cruz Film & Digital Media PhD candidate Allen Riley.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.

Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray, AMPAS, MPSE, is a retired sound editor, sound designer, and sound mixer for feature films primarily based in Santa Cruz, California, and sometimes in Ireland. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2023 for his sound work on "The Batman." He won an Emmy for "Hemingway and Gellhorn" and Golden Reels for sound editing for "War for the Planet of the Apes," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." He has also been nominated for eleven Golden Reels and three Emmys, and for two Cinema Audio Society awards for outstanding sound mixing. He has worked on dozens of feature films in his forty-year career, including "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me." Douglas graduated with a BA in Film from San Francisco State University in 1976. Working with the creative, storytelling, and technical challenges of film sound with so many talented artists has sharpened his interest in sound as a means of play and expression. He received an MA in Experimental Sound Practice from University College Cork in 2021 and is currently devoting more time to making what he likes to think of as organized musical sound composition. He is also interested in philanthropy and serves on two non-profit boards in California.