David Lynch’s love for The Wizard Of Oz and its “truthful” nature came most to the fore in Wild At Heart, a film that came as decades-long passion project Ronnie Rocket once again stalled. Falling in love with Barry Gifford’s characters of Sailor and Lula he had to make the film, with one or two changes just because of his love for the characters.
I look into this, and the unrealised Ronnie Rocket project, in an introduction I gave for the film in July 2025 at The Little Theatre in Bath, where the film was shown in a double bill with The Wizard Of Oz as part of Picturehouse’s ‘Lynchspirations’ season that they ran through the year. The audio in the video below was recorded specially based on the rough introduction that I had written before the screening. Links to some of the things that I reference in the introduction can be found below the video embed.
You can watch Nicolas Cage’s classic Wogan entrance and interview about the film here.
The Little White Lies feature, written by Lillian Crawford, that I mention in the introduction can be read on their website.
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