| | Lost Highway DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Murder, Love Triangles, Infidelity, Film Noir, Psychodrama, Disturbing, Surreal, Switching Roles, Blackmail | | Starring | Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Richard Pryor, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Giovanni Ribisi, Balthazar Getty, Jack Nance, Henry Rollins, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Scott Coffey, Jack Kehler, Michael Massee, Lucy Butler | | Director | David Lynch | | Composer | Angelo Badalamenti | | Costume Designer | Patricia Norris | | Director of Photography | Peter Deming | | Editor | Mary Sweeney | | Producer | Tom Sternberg, Deepak Nayar, Mary Sweeney | | Production Designer | Patricia Norris
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Additional Footage; Soundtrack English 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. 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. 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.
Lost Highway Quotes/Excerpts: "I like to remember things my own way...How I remember them. Not necessarily the way they happened."--Fred Madison (Bill Pullman)
Lost Highway Reviews: "...Lynch displays his peerless gift for creeping us out with a minimum of means -- the sheer anticipation of horror..."
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "...Coolly ominous....[The film] constructs an intricate puzzle out of dream logic, lurid eroticism, violence, shifting identities and fierce intimations of doom..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times "...Beautifully made....LOST HIGHWAY is best at creating a sense of unease....Lynch has put together some thoroughly spooky situations..."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[N]ightmare visionary David Lynch slipped the moorings of conventional narrative altogether..."
-- Stephen Dalton, Uncut "...A truly terrifying picture....It works on the evocation of unease through subtle sounds and blaring doom metal..."
-- Kim Newman, Sight and Sound "...Titillating....Amusing Lynch trademarks abound..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today
This is the only Lucy Butler video. Lost Highway | List Price | $19.98 (You save $6.39) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 1997 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  11514  | | CD Universe Part number | 7582946 | | Catalog number | 62102337 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 25, 2008 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | For bizarre violent and sexual content, and for strong language. | | Running Time | 135 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen |
Lost Highway Movie Review  Possibly the most underrated film ever
Lost Highway received some good press, but mostly it was trashed by a lot of critics who really should have known better. On first viewing the movie is interesting, a creepy piece of film noir, and yet so baffling that the ending is kind of a disappointment if you don't enjoy puzzles. Individual threads make sense on their own, but the whole story seems utterly impossible or nonexistent -- at first. If you're not into art films, then I suppose you shouldn't bother, but I found it so beautiful that I watched it over and over. After two or three viewings the entire structure began to cohere, and after five or six I was able to see the entire work as a gestalt entity that shocked me with its brilliance and depth of expression. Even the soundtrack is unusually effective -- if you study the entire work you'll find that some ninety percent of the lyrics are directly related to events (or even dialog) in the screenplay, even though most of the pieces were not written specifically for the film but chosen for their effect. Within two years of its release it became my favorite movie of all time (which used to be the Blade Runner Director's Cut) and that has not changed as of July 2003. Strangely enough, Lynch's next noir film, Mulholland Drive, was even more difficult to follow, but opened to rave reviews for the most part. Mulholland Drive is a fine film, but it's difficult to see how a self-respecting professional critic who bashed Highway could appreciate Mulholland. Oh, well, maybe they just weren't ready for Highway when it came out.
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 It's good to be Lost
Great Movie! David Lynch comes through as usual with a movie that is not only mysterious, but beautiful and interesting. You can't just watch it once. The more you watch it, the more you see and figure out, but at the same time the more lost you become.
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Great Lynch movie
Another great film by the bizaare and twisted mind of david lynch, an absolute genius in my book.
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This movie is not for your general friday-night-get-together-with-your-girlfriend/boyfriend-pizza-party.
If you love broken-time-frame and you are headstrong and seeking to engage in some serious analysis for weeks after, this is for you.
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This review is for a different format. Great david lynch movie
I would give this movie five stars if was in the wide screen format. I saw it twice at the cinema.Pan and scan does not do this film justice. It will do for now.
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