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...most hallucinogenic images an American filmmaker ever committed to celluloid. His early career traced a paradigmatic arc of hotshot movie eminence, from a $20,000 underground classic (Eraserhead in 1977) to a $5 million Oscar nominee (The Elephant Man in 1980) to a $50 million sci-fi dud (Dune in 1984). Each film had segments of bafflement and spectral beauty. But Hollywood, looking at the escalating price tags and plummeting ticket sales, wrote the director off. So Lynch made Blue Velvet (1986), a magnificent revenge drama -- his revenge on fettered movie conventions -- about small-town life and lust, drugs...
...still photographers in the Pentagon press pool, Brack has taken some of the most powerful photographs ever published of an army preparing for battle: a column of fresh-faced G.I.s striding purposefully into * the Saudi sands, a lone soldier trudging toward a tent sculpted to look like a sand dune and, in this week's issue, a muscular-looking F-15 Eagle fighter preparing for takeoff, fully armed and ready for business. Under the rules of the pool, all pictures taken by Brack must be shared with other U.S. newsmagazines and wire services; this explains why his work has appeared...
David Lynch is an industry these days. America's most distinctive moviemaker had directed just four features (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune and Blue Velvet) in a 15-year career, but now he's everywhere. His Twin Peaks brought flaming weirdness to prime-time television. He has directed TV commercials and a 25-minute music video. This fall he is co-producing a documentary series for the Fox network. And here's Wild at Heart, another three-ring freak show that won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and serves as an entertaining anthology of Lynch...
Lynch moved to Los Angeles in 1970 and spent five years making Eraserhead. The film became a cult hit and led to his first mainstream film, The Elephant Man. Lynch's next project, the big-budget sci-fi movie Dune, was a critical and commercial disaster, but Blue Velvet brought him widespread critical / acclaim. A couple of aborted projects later (including a script for Steve Martin called One Saliva Bubble), Lynch is finishing a new film, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern...
...century, the Italian-born De Laurentiis produced a handful of successes that include the Fellini-directed La Strada (1954), Serpico (1974), King Kong (1976) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). But the hits have been overshadowed by hundreds of commercial duds, most notably the $50 million sci-fi film Dune, a 1984 mega-flop that helped send Dino down the chute...