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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) [1] 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.
Barry Gifford’s Sad Stories of the Death of Kings gleams like a stolen silver dollar; one boy’s search for wisdom among the hustlers, criminals, and wise guys that reads as evocatively as anything out of Nelson Algren.
Mar 16, 2018 · 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.”
Sep 1, 2014 · Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway, 1947) with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Colleen Gray, Brian Donleavy. “Mature fills up the screen while Widmark wriggles sideways into the frame, a nasty little reptile.” Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) with Joan Crawford, Ann Blythe, Zachary Scott.
Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he’s been writing short stories, his “Roy stories,” that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness.
A novelist, poet, screenwriter, essayist, biographer, lyricist, memoirist, and author of short stories, Barry Gifford is a prolific author who has received critical acclaim in a wide variety of genres. He began his literary career as a poet and eventually turned to biography and novels.
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Three days before meeting co-screenwriter Barry Gifford, I sat down to watch David Lynch's Lost Highway. The French daily newspaper, Le Monde, dedicated three pages to its release and declared it the best film Lynch has ever made.
