[The Sarah Dodds Harvest Memorial Clinic]

[New York Press Association Press Card]

[U.S. Customs Agent]

[Wilson, Cohen, Smith, INC]

[National Institute of Health, Harry Conroy]

“May I help you?”

“Yes. My name is Harry Conroy, and I’m with  the National Institute of Health.”

Mise en scène in a trickster’s wallet.

Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg

Mise en Scène in a desk drawer.

Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg

How to Speak German. I wonder why this book, in particular. Is it a clue? Lynch’s Mise en scène is a bit … sporadic. Everything is meaningful, as with Kubrick films, but he also improvises on the spot. This could well have been something the actress was reading at the time, and he decided it “fit” in some esoteric way.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), directed by David Lynch