Word: lynches
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...reviewer emerged from an early screening of Lost Highway with the cry of "Garbage!" Well, David Lynch must be doing something right. The creator of Twin Peaks describes his first film in four years as a "21st century noir horror film." It has a battered suitcase of references to old Hollywood film noir, the requisite gore for a scare show and, in the spooky presence of Robert Blake--with his pancake white face, shaved eyebrows and sickly smile--an eldritch harbinger of death like the dwarf in Twin Peaks. So whatever that critic may think, Lost Highway isn't refuse...
Several motels and murders later, and in between cameos by such veteran outragers as Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins and Mink Stole, we notice the signposts. This is a milder Wild at Heart, the 1990 road movie that, like this one, Lynch wrote with novelist Barry Gifford...
...States has traveled. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, white supremacy reared its ugly head, rolling back the progressive laws enacted to secure the freedom and agency of black Americans. After 1877, the New South planted fields of cotton drenched in the blood of black men savagely murdered by lynch mobs that contained town sheriffs, in much the same way inner-city police continue to murder African-Americans without restraint, remorse or reproach...
...climbed as high as No. 3 on the charts, right behind Celine Dion and Kenny G. Rolling Stone magazine put Manson on its cover in January and proclaimed him Best New Artist of 1996. This week Manson makes his screen debut as a seedy porn actor in the David Lynch film Lost Highway...
...than when he smiles--the picture of boll-weevil evil. He's good at that. "Billy can organize all the madmen inside himself," says John Ritter, the Three's Company refugee who gets a career makeover as a gentle gay man in Sling Blade. "If Horton Foote and David Lynch ran at each other at 100 m.p.h. and collided head on, the result would be someone like Billy Bob." In his spare moments, Thornton got married. Four times...