Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Early on in The Straight Story, the 1999 drama that David Lynch called his “most experimental film,” ...
David Lynch built his reputation by revealing the violence beneath American surfaces — severed ears in manicured lawns, nightmare corridors behind suburban doors, desire curdling into dread. Then he ...
Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...
Not long into David Lynch’s 1999 film The Straight Story, the G-rated tale of a septuagenarian slowly making his away across the Midwest on a John Deere riding lawnmower to reunite with his estranged ...
"Mulholland Drive" and "Twin Peaks: The Return" may not have happened without little ol' Alvin Straight. From “Eraserhead” to “Twin Peaks: The Return,” and perhaps even earlier with his short films, ...
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