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Lynch creates surreal, intimate portraits of Americana and roadside culture, most famously exploring the darkness beneath small-town diners and motels in Twin Peaks and The Straight Story.

Wenders is obsessed with American highways, motels, and the transient spaces of roadside America, exploring isolation and connection in works like Paris, Texas and Until the End of the World.

Spheeris captures the gritty realism of roadside bars, biker culture, and working-class Americana in documentaries and fiction films like Decline of Western Civilization and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II.