Actor John Carroll Lynch, or as you may better know him, Norm Gunderson from the movie "Fargo," Drew’s brother Steve on "The Drew Carey Show," and Twisty the Clown on "American Horror Story: Freak Show" and "American Horror Story: Cult," lives part-time near Millerton, New York. On Sunday, Jan. 28 and Monday, Jan. 29, The Moviehouse will screen Lynch's directorial debut, last year’s critically acclaimed film "Lucky". He'll appear in person at Sunday's screening to discuss the film. My wife and I are in LA most of the time, but she is also an actress and was working in New York all the time. So we rented a house near Millerton and fell in love with the area. We decided to move there permanently four years ago. We go back and forth to the city and other places for work.
Lucky is really about a way of looking at life inside mortality, which we all face and share. He’s a man who has outlived everyone he knows, and is at the frontier of human mortality. He's 90 years old; most people never get there. He’s on the edge of that question, and realizes he might not have all the time in the world. How do you deal with that in a way that makes sense? The movie is told with a lot of humor and heart, and I’ll be talking about that with the audience. It happened to be the last major role that Harry Dean Stanton ever played, and with him being a major legend, it was fitting for to him to have a major sendoff. He never saw the final product. I’ve been filming in New York, but I spent the last three years working in Canada, Atlanta and LA, so it’s nice to be near home. I’m starting to write a movie now that I’ll direct. The Moviehouse is my hometown movie theater, so it’s really nice to be able to share my first feature with the audience I spend the most time with. It’s nice to support places like the Moviehouse’s existence. The movie I made, and the ones I want to make, aren’t going to have nearly as much opportunity to be seen by audiences if not for them.
