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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual ...
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Nov 8, 2021 · “Picasso said that ‘art is a lie that helps us see the truth,’ and Barry’s stories function in the same way about Chicago in the 1950s,” director Rob Christopher told me during our 2019 conversation about his extraordinary film, “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago.” “He uses his memories to create fictionalized versions of that time period.
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Barry Gifford. Writer: Lost Highway. Barry Gifford was born on 18 October 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Lost Highway (1997), Wild at Heart (1990) and Black Wings Has My Angel.
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Lost Highway is a 1997 surrealist neo noir film directed by David Lynch and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Blake in his final film role. The film follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home.
- $3.8 million
- Angelo Badalamenti
- David Lynch
- Mary Sweeney, Tom Sternberg, Deepak Nayar
Sonny is an unloved orphan raised in the Manila slums. Pressured by his friends, he resorts to thievery. During one heist, his friend accidentally kills an old woman. When the police arrive, Sonny gets arrested. A minor unable to prove his innocence, he is convicted for murder and sent to prison. Inside Deathrow, he is welcomed to the cruel ...
Mar 16, 2018 · Now 71, Barry Gifford has spent a lifetime writing stories about outsiders, particularly the hard-living petty thieves Sailor and Lula, the basis for the David Lynch film "Wild at Heart." We sit ...
Nov 9, 2021 · American writer Barry Gifford in Paris, France, in 2010. Gifford was born and grew up in the Seneca Hotel in Streeterville. His name was Barry Stein and his mother was a former Texas beauty queen ...
