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Sunday, Jan 26, 2020
7 PM (111 mins)
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BAMPFA
The Straight Story
Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Harry Dean Stanton,
“Walt Disney Pictures Presents a Film by David Lynch”: from the opening titles, Lynch’s surprising follow-up to Lost Highway defies all audience expectations of “the Lynchian.” Longtime character actor and ex-stuntman Richard Farnsworth (Kirk Douglas’s double in Spartacus) earned an Oscar nod as an elderly man, too impaired to have a driver’s license, who instead drives his lawn mower across the Midwest to see his ailing brother. But a film can be “straight” and still be strange. “It may be my most experimental film,” Lynch noted. “Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.”
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- John Roach
- Mary Sweeney
Cinematographer
- Freddie Francis
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 111 mins
Source
- Swank Motion Pictures