John Carroll Lynch displays solid direction and command of the visual medium with many widescreen vistas of Stanton traversing the small town of West Irvine, Kentucky, but for the most part the director moves out of the way for Stanton to unfurl and offer up what is already being called the performance of a lifetime. Partially an autobiographical confessional and mostly a nice time with the acting legend,is as much about Harry Dean Stanton as a person as it is about his friends and loved ones’ connection to him. Equally surprising despite being in a small part is David Lynch as an eccentric local who lost his pet tortoise with more than a few heartfelt soliloquys up his sleeve. Lynch, who is already one of the great comic actors on his revivalseries, comes into his own indespite only being onscreen for a short time.