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    'Lucky': Harry Dean Stanton Gets A Quiet, Ruminative Sendoff

    Effectively a loving cinematic eulogy to its late star, Luckyworks best when it allows Stanton to express his character's "wistfulness, his bewilderment at the mere fact that he's alive," says critic Andrew Lapin.
    by Andrew Lapin Sep 28, 2017 3 minutes
    The late Harry Dean Stanton brings a raw-boned grace to <em>Lucky.</em>

    Not many people on this Earth get a movie made for them as eulogy. Harry Dean Stanton is lucky.

    That last sentence appears in one of Stanton's final films, on its title screen in fact, under an image of the actor squinting into the desert sun in white undershirt, knee-length socks, and ten-gallon hat:

    "Harry Dean Stanton IS Lucky."

    So he was. The stalwart character actor, who died Sept. 15 at the age of 91, enjoyed a six-decade career in the movies. His face, which seems,and , earning the good graces of every Hollywood professional he came across. He was never a big star, but wherever you looked in the landscape of cinema, there was Stanton: his deep wrinkles and cowboy vibes penetrating something unspoken about character and the nuances of men.

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