The Log Woman was a beloved a part of “Twin Peaks.” However Catherine Coulson was far more than that. She was a fan favourite who made time to talk with collection fanatics and helped perpetuate its lore, in addition to a longtime actor with Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Competition and a digicam assistant who pulled focus for David Lynch, John Cassavetes and Albert Brooks.

Coulson made “everybody who was near her really feel like they had been her finest buddy,” says Richard Inexperienced, director of “I Know Catherine, The Log Woman,” a feature-length documentary that screens at Ojai’s Playhouse Theatre Saturday with a Q&A from “Twin Peaks” co-creator Mark Frost.

A number of of these mates had been concerned in making the doc, which ends with the dramatic story of the previous couple of days of Coulson’s life, as Lynch and firm raced towards her quickly progressing lung most cancers to incorporate her within the Showtime reboot “Twin Peaks: The Return.”

Coulson died in 2015, simply 4 days after a short Log Woman cameo was shot at her house in Oregon with a assist from a neighborhood manufacturing firm and Lynch directing on Skype from afar. It’s an emotional conclusion for the doc, as family and friends collect at her home to say goodbye whereas Lynch’s L.A. producer tries to determine whether or not Coulson could be wholesome sufficient to fly to the Washington set on a Medevac aircraft.

However first, there’s an engrossing take a look at the lifetime of a multi-faceted lady who grew up within the squeaky-clean Nineteen Fifties, with a dad who labored in PR for Disney. Because the counterculture started to flourish, Coulson grew to become a hippie theater performer within the wild days of Sixties San Francisco. After shifting to Hollywood, she ended up sharing an house with Lynch and “Eraserhead” star Jack Nance, whom she married. She performed a pivotal position in “Eraserhead,” serving as assistant cameraperson and Lynch’s assistant, and that was when she and Lynch first started kicking across the Log Woman idea.

Though it was removed from her solely accomplishment, her position as Margaret, the mysterious Log Woman — who was given to intoning deadpan gems like “The solutions to all our questions are within the wind and the bushes, the rocks and the water” — made her into an iconic determine for legions of Lynch followers.

Inexperienced, who performed The Magician in Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” interviewed greater than 65 individuals for the doc over the previous seven years. He ended up capturing some interviews in the identical Beachwood Canyon house the place he first met Coulson and Lynch.

Greater than 20 years after “Mulholland Drive,” Inexperienced was thrilled to work once more with Lynch, who generously shared his reminiscences of his longtime buddy and collaborator Coulson. “He’s one of the best viewers on the earth — ask any actor. He’s so current and so encouraging,” Inexperienced says, “That’s what I gave him on this movie — I listened.”

“The interview with David was simply an hour and a half of pleasure,” Inexperienced remembers of the shoot that was probably Lynch’s final display look. “He’s one of many biggest storytellers that ever lived.”

Different “Twin Peaks” figures who contribute their reminiscences of Coulson within the doc embrace Frost, Kyle MacLachlan, Dana Ashbrook, Grace Zabriskie, Michael Horse and Kimmy Robertson.

Inexperienced was thinking about making a doc about Coulson from the second he heard in regards to the circumstances surrounding her closing “Twin Peaks: The Return” look, recounted to him by Coulson’s longtime buddy, government producer Donna DuBain. “I assumed, what a tremendous story — any individual lives lengthy sufficient to do that position one final time and dies 4 days later. It simply appeared extraordinary to me,” Inexperienced says.

“No one actually knew the entire story. That what the NDA was for,” he says. “Donna advised me about this $6 million NDA that each one of them had signed after they obtained there. The penalty could be $6 million in the event that they advised anyone about what occurred.”

When it got here time to movie the doc’s climactic closing scene, together with footage from the shoot of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” Inexperienced says his primary aim was to “get out of the way in which” and let the intimate conversations unfurl with no musical background.

Like Lynch, Coulson was an enthusiastic practitioner of transcendental meditation, which Inexperienced was additionally persuaded to attempt. “I really thought it sounded fairly culty,” Inexperienced remembers. However throughout a disturbing interval in his life, he says, “I assumed, ‘If I do TM coaching I’ll perceive Catherine and David a bit higher and perhaps it’ll assist me.’”

Inexperienced says it was Coulson who was first promoted the spirit of camaraderie amongst Lynch’s casts and crews that persevered all through his profession. “David developed a way of neighborhood and spirit and cooperation and constructive power on a set — I feel that’s largely influenced by Catherine.”

The director additionally reveals that the Log Woman’s unique log has been recovered and is on its method to a museum, whereas Coulson’s iconic pink glasses will probably be on show at a few of the screenings.

After Ojai, the doc will journey to Ashland, Portland, Los Angeles and different cities, and also will be obtainable to stream on the movie’s web site beginning Might 21.