Lost Highway (was Fargo)--SPOILER ALERT

[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     Chris Stolz has high hopes:
     >good news on the film front:  the most consistently interesting 
     >American director, David Lynch, has a new film coming out in 
     >February called _Lost Highway_-- I wonder if it's a play of some 
     >kind on the old Leon Payne/Hank Williams classic
     
     I share your regard for David Lynch, but, uh, regrettably, must inform 
     you that _Lost Highway_, which I saw recently in preview, is a car 
     wreck.  The classic Lynch touches are there but only as 
     window-dressing, IMO.  I won't go into great detail, except to say 
     that LH features a great, scary performance by Robert Blake and some 
     very disturbing moments, specifically a snuff film-within-the-film 
     featuring hard-core death metal star Marilyn Manson.  Whew.  I'm no 
     slouch when it come to this stuff, but...
     
     Hoping that this has successfully wrested Pynchon-l back from the 
     South Africans,
     
     Chris