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The Straight Story

1999 · Directed by David Lynch · United States

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The Straight Story

United States · 1999

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This Must Be the Place 2011 · Paolo Sorrentino The List interview with Paolo Sorrentino Free on Tubi

Director on record · United States → Italy

The Rome-resident Sorrentino is quick to point out several American films, which influenced his own idiosyncratic reworking of the road movie, notably David Lynch's The Straight Story.

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