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- Shooting piecemeal over the next four years (and financed with his own money), Young (under the name “Bernard Shakey”) and co-director Stockwell crafted a goofy, hyper-stylized and mostly improvised satire about small town life, fame, the nuclear industry and the impending apocalypse. With musical interludes.
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Jun 24, 2021 · But the casting of Charlotte Stewart, the actress who played the cataleptic Mary X in “Eraserhead,” as the dishy waitress Charlotte Goodnight, showed that the continuum of influence between “Human Highway” and the future [and past] work of David Lynch was flowing in simultaneous [possibly quantum?] directions.
Human Highway is a 1982 American comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young in his film and directional debut under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo.
Sep 25, 2014 · The film, an apocalyptic satire set in the Cold War era, follows the inhabitants of a small town positioned near a nuclear power plant. Young plays a nerdy mechanic named Lionel who dreams of being a rock star.
Yet Human Highway stands on its own as a satire and is clearly one of the most bizarre films ever made. I have unfathomable respect for Neil Young as an artist, but his films have never received the proper distribution they deserve.
Apr 21, 2015 · Released the same year, Young’s film Human Highway can be seen as another extension of this throw-it-to-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks mode of experimentation for a rock star finding his place ...
Apr 9, 2015 · “Human Highway,” which is set in the fictional, irradiated Linear Valley, possesses a dire view of the environment and an utter disregard for what was considered commercial cinema.
