Lost Highway (1997)
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[TRAILER] David Lynch fashions two separate but intersecting stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman), tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other is a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that the women in both are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette).
Also starring Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Jack Nance, Henry Rollins, Giovanni Ribisi, Mink Stole.
Directed by David Lynch. Written by David Lynch, Barry Gifford. Produced by Mary Sweeney, Tom Sternberg, Deepak Nayar for Ciby 2000, Asymmetrical Productions. Cinematography by Peter Deming. Edited by Mary Sweeney. Music by Angelo Badalamenti.
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Also starring Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Jack Nance, Henry Rollins, Giovanni Ribisi, Mink Stole.
Directed by David Lynch. Written by David Lynch, Barry Gifford. Produced by Mary Sweeney, Tom Sternberg, Deepak Nayar for Ciby 2000, Asymmetrical Productions. Cinematography by Peter Deming. Edited by Mary Sweeney. Music by Angelo Badalamenti.
70% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Find streaming options in your country on JustWatch.
This is basically a trial run for Mulholland Drive. Bill Pullman's character is in some deep, deep denial about the things he's done. I haven't watched it in quite a while, but I remember him saying "I like to remember things my own way," and yeah, so do we all, my dude. Have fun driving that never-ending road of guilt and delusion.
Also, the soundtrack to this movie kicks serious ass.
Also, also, since I'm on the subject, almost all of Lynch's work involves people not wanting to face the reality of their situations and pretending things are fine, or dreaming up other realities, or, in the case of Twin Peaks, there are literal shadow-selves.
posted by mrphancy at 9:37 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
Also, the soundtrack to this movie kicks serious ass.
Also, also, since I'm on the subject, almost all of Lynch's work involves people not wanting to face the reality of their situations and pretending things are fine, or dreaming up other realities, or, in the case of Twin Peaks, there are literal shadow-selves.
posted by mrphancy at 9:37 PM on January 16 [2 favorites]
I forget where I heard or read this, but the commentary on this that's always struck me very deeply is the idea that this is Lynch's meditation on the OJ saga: a man who kills his wife but denies it so strongly that he wills reality to change around him and becomes a completely different person. And the endless driving.
posted by rocketman at 6:17 AM on January 17 [3 favorites]
posted by rocketman at 6:17 AM on January 17 [3 favorites]
Robert Blake is genuinely terrifying in this movie. It might have opened up a whole new phase in his career, but he, uh... went another way.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:29 PM on January 17 [3 favorites]
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:29 PM on January 17 [3 favorites]
90% of what I remember of this movie is that scene with Robert Blake, and the Mortal Coil version of "Song to the Siren", which at that moment in time was by my favorite song ever, and one that I had assumed was a bit obscure. Hearing it in the middle of an Actual Hollywood Movie was eerie and confounding. I had feels.
posted by phooky at 10:07 AM on January 20
posted by phooky at 10:07 AM on January 20
I think this is the first Lynch film to really click for me because it was basically Mulholland Drive with training wheels.
posted by sibboleth at 10:09 AM on January 20
posted by sibboleth at 10:09 AM on January 20
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posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:09 PM on January 16