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Ive assess your centers before and youre just too much magnificent. I really like what youve arrived, acknowledge what youre. The new fulllength trailer for the latest adaptation of Stephen Kings It is damn scary, with Bill Skarsgards Pennywise looking, sounding, and overall being. Thats right, its our beloved Curry fied Pennywise Curry played the killer clown in the 1. And even though this reboot is definitively its own thing, with director Andrs Muschietti emphasizing that its more for fans of the book than the miniseries was, its nice to see this latest version paying tribute to the one thing that made its predecessor so iconic. The Lawnmower Man Full Movie' title='The Lawnmower Man Full Movie' />The David Lynch Retrospective The Straight StoryThe Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of workbe it directors, screenwriters, or otherwiseand analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the filmmaker in question, the central themes that connect hisher works, and what they each represent within the larger context of hisher career. This time, we delve into the strange world of David Lynchs mind, attempting to make sense of things along the way. For many who only know David Lynch for Twin Peaks and his more surreal film work, The Straight Story is simply considered that one DisneyG rated Lynch movie. A shock to many at the time of its announcement, many considered it strange that a director known for making lurid, bizarre, and often disturbing films would make something as tame as a G rated Disney film halfway false considering the film was independently produced and Disney merely acted as distributor after its successful Cannes debut. It almost turned into a punchline. A Lynch movie without depravity, nightmarish imagery, and shocking scenes How deliciously absurd, am I rightAlexandre Ajas gruesome 2003 French horror movie High Tension or Haute Tension is full of gory goodies, and the scene where a trapped driver is eviscerated by a. A man is dead after a workplace incident involving a rideon lawnmower in Drayton Valley on Thursday. Even Lynch himself found The Straight Story to be totally distinct from his previous works. Its the only film of his in which he gave no contribution to writing the screenplay which was written by John E. Roach and Lynchs frequent collaborator Mary Sweeney, who also produced and edited this film and many other Lynch works, and Lynch shot the film in an interesting manner every single scene was filmed in chronological order, and on location in the actual route that Alvin Straight took, whose 3. Richard Farnsworth, who plays Straight, even agreed to shoot the film in spite of suffering from prostate cancer. When we see him struggling to stand back up on his two canes, we are seeing Farnsworth in pain, and that passion managed to pay off with an Oscar nomination for his role. Lynch said in an interview with Empire that it was actually his most experimental film Granted, that interview was conducted before the making of Inland Empire. On paper, its odd seeing Lynch tackle such wildly different material by his standards, but when you really think about it, a lot of Lynchs films tend to deviate and experiment in some new way, and a G rated road trip film was yet another evolution of that. Moreover, when you finally see the film, you realize that for all its superficial differences from the rest of his filmography, this is still a David Lynch film An external journey that also constitutes as a subconscious odyssey. Into where The past, the future, the secrets and sins of this old man whose lived it all, and much more. Today, our David Lynch Retrospective slows to Sunday Drive speed as we take a look at a film thats both acclaimed and yet somehow also underappreciated, like an old neighbor down the street whose been all but forgotten in the passage of time. This is The Straight StoryThe worst part of being old is rememberin when you was young. Though this is technically not a Lynch script, you could see and feel Lynchs influence over it, with surreal characters and strange lines of dialogue coming and going throughout Alvin Straights journey, as well as an odd atmosphere that permeates the entire production. You could see why Lynch was drawn to the material and would direct this script. The film introduces us to Alvin Straights midwestern world with a quiet mood and careful, methodical pacing. An old man in his late 7. Laurens, Iowa with only his mentally challenged daughter Rose a quietly heartbreaking Sissy Spacek to keep him company. Upon learning that his distant brother Lyle Harry Dean Stanton has recently suffered from a severe stroke, Alvin finally decides to reconnect with his brother before age gets the better of the both of them. Unable to drive, and completely set on taking the journey on his own, he sets up a riding lawnmower with a trailer full of gasoline, water, and braunschweiger weiners and sets out to journey all the way to Mount Zion, Wisconsin entirely on his own. The Straight Story is simply a damn fine movie, but its damn fine for reasons that the traditional viewer may never even see or notice. The late Roger Ebert likened the film to an Ernest Hemingway story the plot certainly has shades of The Old Man and the Sea, and I couldnt think of a more apt comparison. Its simplistic on the surface, yet contains an uncommon depth, using its basic structure to wring out themes as far reaching as guilt, loss, mortality, and redemption. This is Lynch conquering slightly more crowd pleasing, inspirational storytelling in a manner that I find much more satisfying than the abundance of sap that distanced me from The Elephant Man. Its a slow moving film, but it contains a palpable friendliness and sincerity that draws you into its slow pace. Its like wading down a river staring at a sunset. Or, more fittingly, like lying on a distant field and simply staring with wonder at the stars. Richard Farnsworth is brilliant in it the film gave him his second Oscar nomination, as is Sissy Spacek and the rest of the small supporting players that Farnsworth interacts with over the course of his journey. Seeing Farnsworths weary yet soulful face for the entire hour and fifty minutes of the film simply ties the whole thing together. New Season Of Friends With Better Lives Cancelled more. I mention this because this is one of the only times a cast ends up being the star players of a Lynch film. Usually, you watch a David Lynch film to experience his unique brand of nightmarish insanity, and as much as I love his indulgent descents into the surreal, its nice to see him scale back and tell a story with delicate restraint and aplomb. The Straight Story demonstrates that he has more range beyond scaring or weirding out the pants from audiences, and craft something thats simply delicate and assured. Stylistically and structurally, its just as filled with surreal asides and idiosyncrasies as his other films, albeit in more subtle ways. This technically being a road trip film, Alvin encounters many strange characters in his travels, sometimes for seemingly no reason. An entire horde of marathon bikers pass by him, as does a hitchhiking teenager who later joins him for dinner, and most memorable of all, a crazy woman runs over a deer, only to burst into an angry rant about how this has been the umpteenth deer shes run over in seven weeks, all before moving back onto the road like it never even happened. These brief excursions from the main plot also highlight another Lynchian tendency Bizarre tonal shifts and scene transitions. The aforementioned deer lady scene starts off normally, only to rapidly spiral out of control with the sound of her car hitting the deer. We arent shown this what with the G rating and all, but the camera does perform a jarring snap zoom square on Alvin Straights face reacting to the crash. And yet, Lynch applies these tendencies to a more heartwarming story. The Straight Story is a much warmer film, and it is precisely this warmness that distracts many people from what really makes it great. In spite of its G rating, that undercurrent of darkness which can always be found in every David Lynch film is still present here, and it evolves as the film progresses. It may be hidden away in the background, and it isnt quite as depraved as some of the darkness found in Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, but its there all the same, and it informs all of the events and actions we witness in the film.