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Out-Lynching Lynch: David Lynch, Kirk Mellecker, Surrealism, and the Black Dahlia
May 6, 2026 Birch Bay, Washingon Last night I finally watched David Lynch’s The Straight Story (1999), a film recommended to me recently in conversation. At age 84, watching Richard Farnsworth portray Alvin Straight calling himself “an old man” at 73 gave me pause. Farnsworth himself was nearing 80 during filming and already seriously ill.…
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