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Lost Highway|Bill Pullman
Lost Highway
Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette
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Overview

Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's fear is compounded when he meets a mysterious man (Robert Blake) at a flamboyant party. Fred wakes up to discover that Renee has been murdered, and Fred is convicted of the crime. Trouble is, he doesn't remember anything from that night. Sitting in a jail cell, he undergoes a miraculous transformation, waking up as Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), a young mechanic. When Pete meets a dangerous client's sexy girlfriend, Alice Wakefield (a blonde Arquette), a passionate affair blossoms that threatens to expose Pete. In typical Lynch fashion, he makes no effort whatsoever to explain his film or justify its bizarre occurrences, resulting in an enigmatic thriller that feels like the viewer has unknowingly walked into another person's dream. The screenplay adheres to many universal film noir conventions, but Lynch and co-screenwriter Barry Gifford's psychological angle gives them a freedom to do anything that they so desire (a concept they giddily embrace). For fans of surreal, visually arresting cinema, Lynch delivers once again.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
David Lynch - Director
Bill Pullman
Patricia Arquette
Balthazar Getty
Robert Blake
Robert Loggia
Natasha Gregson Wagner
Richard Pryor
Lisa Boyle
Mink Stole
Michael Massee

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Run Time: 134
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 715515277617
  • Genre: MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / THRILLER
  • Rating: R
  • Release Date: October 2022

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
Oddball auteur David Lynch takes viewers on another surreal journey in this highly enigmatic neo-noir. The story concerns a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) who is tormented by his cheating wife (Patricia Arquette), haunted by a spectral demon, and ultimately accused of his wife's brutal slaying, which he doesn't remember. Then "plot two" takes over as the musician switches roles with a mechanic who launches an affair with the seductive moll (Arquette again) of a dangerous gangster. Lynch leaves it up to the audience to connect the dots, which makes for a challenging, though exhilarating, motion picture.

Notes:
Theatrical release: February 21, 1997. Lynch introduces the LOST HIGHWAY screenplay with this statement: "A 21st-century noir horror film. A graphic investigation into parallel identity crises. A world where time is dangerously out of control. A terrifying ride down the lost highway." LOST HIGHWAY is Lynch and Barry Gifford's first effort writing an original screenplay together, although the pair has collaborated before. (Lynch adapted Gifford's WILD AT HEART and also filmed two Gifford teleplays for the HBO series HOTEL ROOM.) Fred and Renee's house is actually one of Lynch's Los Angeles homes. Lynch also designed the furniture.

Reviews:
"...A truly terrifying picture....It works on the evocation of unease through subtle sounds and blaring doom metal..." - 09/01/1997 Sight and Sound, p.48-9


"...Titillating....Amusing Lynch trademarks abound..." - 02/21/1997 USA Today, p.4D


"...Lynch displays his peerless gift for creeping us out with a minimum of means -- the sheer anticipation of horror..." - 02/21/1997 Entertainment Weekly, p.103-4


"...Coolly ominous....[The film] constructs an intricate puzzle out of dream logic, lurid eroticism, violence, shifting identities and fierce intimations of doom..." - 02/21/1997 New York Times, p.C1


"...Beautifully made....LOST HIGHWAY is best at creating a sense of unease....Lynch has put together some thoroughly spooky situations..." - 02/21/1997 Los Angeles Times, p.F10


3 stars out of 5 -- "[N]ightmare visionary David Lynch slipped the moorings of conventional narrative altogether..." - 03/01/2006 Uncut, p.132

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