Tag: Barry Gifford

Sailor and Lula on the Big Screen

Sailor and Lula on the Big Screen

June 11, 2014 | By

Reviews of two idiosyncratic films featuring characters from Barry Gifford’s Sailor and Lula series – David Lynch’s nightmarish Wild at Heart (Twilight Time) + Alex de la Iglesia’s graphic Perdita Durango / aka Dance with the Devil (Unapix).

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BR: Wild at Heart (1990)

BR: Wild at Heart (1990)

June 11, 2014 | By

Originally intending to produce a film version of Barry Gifford’s novel, David Lynch moved into the director’s chair after becoming enamored by the story of Sailor and Lula, two oddballs on the run from Lula’s mother because of their forbidden love and determination to preserve their ‘individuality’…

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DVD: Perdita Durango / Dance with the Devil (1997)

DVD: Perdita Durango / Dance with the Devil (1997)

June 11, 2014 | By

The second installment of Barry Gifford’s Sailor and Lula saga (after Wild at Heart) was given a similarly idiosyncratic treatment by director Alex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast) who crafted a stylized film which went even further in sex and violence than David Lynch’s own eccentric translation …

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