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Feb 27, 1997 · Lost Highway. David Lynch's "Lost Highway'' is like kissing a mirror: You like what you see, but it's not much fun, and kind of cold. It's a shaggy ghost story, an exercise in style, a film made with a certain breezy contempt for audiences. I've seen it twice, hoping to make sense of it. There is no sense to be made of it.
Rent Lost Highway on Fandango at Home, or buy it on Fandango at Home. Marking a further escalation in David Lynch's surrealist style, Lost Highway is a foreboding mystery that arguably leads to a ...
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- Bill Pullman
- It Has Some of Lynch’s Most Disturbing Imagery
- Bill Pullman Makes For A Compelling Lead
- The Script Has An Intriguing Self-Reflexive Structure
- It’S The Closest Lynch Has Come to Making A Straight Noir
- Patricia Arquette Plays A Unique Kind of Femme Fatale
- The Mystery Man Is One of Lynch’s Most Surreal Creations
- It Kicked Off Lynch’s L.A. Trilogy
- The Midpoint Twist Avoids The Usual Second-Act Problems
- Robert Loggia Gives An Unforgettable Turn as The Villain
- The “Dead End” Is Actually Genius
One of the hallmarks of David Lynch’s style is disturbing imagery, like the alien-like baby featured prominently throughout Eraserhead or the severed ear that opens Blue Velvet. From the voyeuristic tapes that kick things off to Fred Madison’s trippy dream sequences, Lost Highwayhas some of the most unsettling images of Lynch’s career.
Like a lot of David Lynch’s protagonists — Henry Spencer, Jeffrey Beaumont, Alvin Straight, etc. — Fred Madison is introduced as an everyman. He’s far from an everyman by the end of the movie, though, and Bill Pullman plays this surreal journey brilliantly. Pullman gives a compelling turn in Lost Highway. He has the chops to convey both the everyma...
David Lynch co-wrote the screenplay for Lost Highway with Barry Gifford, whose novel Wild at Hearthe’d previously adapted into a delightfully bizarre road movie with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. Their script has a self-reflexive structure that’s fascinating. It script acts like a mirror looping story events around, facing characters with the conseq...
The influence of film noir can be seen all over Lynch’s work, from Mulholland Drive’s parallels with Sunset Boulevard to the ethically questionable protagonist of Blue Velvet. But Lost Highwayis the closest Lynch has come to making a full-on noir. A jazz musician being wrongfully accused (or so it seems) of his wife’s murder is a plot ripped straig...
Like any great noir, Lost Highwayhas a captivating femme fatale, played by Patricia Arquette. But her character (or characters) is a femme fatale like no other. Initially, she’s introduced as Fred Madison’s wife, Renee. She’s murdered and he’s arrested for it. Then, when Fred turns into a mechanic named Pete in his cell, Pete is released and he fal...
From Killer B.O.B. in Twin Peaks to The Cowboy in Mulholland Drive, David Lynch has graced audiences with a lot of surreal supernatural characters. One of the craziest of the bunch is the Mystery Man from Lost Highway. After appearing to Fred in a couple of dreams, the Mystery Man approaches him at a party and tells him to call his own house and sp...
Lost Highway was David Lynch’s first of three consecutive films set in Los Angeles. It was followed by Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, and they’re collectively considered to be Lynch’s unofficial L.A. trilogy. As the movie that kicked off this trilogy, Lost Highway gave audiences their first look at Lynch’s unique cinematic vision of Los Angele...
Most movies suffer from second-act problems because the function of the second act is to find an entertaining way to deliver all the boring stuff that gets the audience from the intriguing setups of the first act to the satisfying payoffs of the third act. Thanks to its baffling midpoint twist, in which the protagonist randomly turns into a whole n...
Robert Loggia plays the villain in Lost Highway, a gangster named Mr. Eddy, as well as Dick Laurent, whose death is central to the movie’s many mysteries. Mr. Eddy is a much more fun and cartoonish villain than the disturbing Frank Booth from Blue Velvet. In scenes like Mr. Eddy’s confrontation with the tailgater, Loggia walks a fine line between t...
One of the most common criticisms levied at Lost Highwayis that its self-reflexive storylines lead the movie to a dead end — but that’s the genius of it. Watching the nonlinear mayhem of Lost Highwayis like going on a rollercoaster. The movie leads the audience in and out of itself. NEXT: 10 Movies David Lynch Almost Directed
Oct 24, 2022 · The natural world is a black hole. The dominant image of "Lost Highway," the one put on the movie's poster, is a forbidding stretch of road rocketing by at an imperceptible speed, surrounded by night.
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Lost Highway is a 1997 surrealist neo noir film directed by David Lynch and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Blake in his final film role. The film follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home.
Jan 15, 1997 · Lost Highway: Directed by David Lynch. With Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito. Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.
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Oct 11, 2022 · Review: David Lynch’s. Lost Highway. on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. A profoundly beautiful restoration makes this release a must-own for Lynch aficionados. David Lynch’s Lost Highway is defined by a specific anxiety that isn’t present in Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire. It’s an embodiment of a pensive male ...
