Lost Highway
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Actor: Balthazar Getty, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert BlakeBrand: Universal
Performer: Patricia Arquette
Performer: Natasha Gregson Wagner
Primary Contributor: David Lynch
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Lost Highway
DVD Review: Running on Empty
Summary: 4 Stars
You can't always know what the other guy's thinking, but this seems to be the pivot point upon which David Lynch crafts his essentially noir tale of fractured identity and broken dreams.
Bill Pullman figures prominently in this film as a sax player who, through a particular psychological breakdown finds himself inside another man's world, feeling his feelings, and thinking his thoughts, many of which are of violent actions approaching murder.
To attempt any reductive rationale for the Lynchian style is to do a great injustice to both the director and viewer, since part of the dynamic of the film is based on our own perception of reality and how it is visualized in the film.
Watch the movie with glee, and a decent helping of sugar- it's a wild ride down a lost highway.
DVD Review: Most Underrated and Underappreciated Move of All Time
Summary: 5 Stars
**** of ****
While not nearly inscrutable as most people assert, this film is as refreshing and invigorating, especially after watching all the garbage that's released nowadays, as any film in recent memory.I understand the quibbles of most people and the obvious difficulty it is for them to fathom abstractions that the movie throws one after another. Be advised, go back and watch the movie over and over, because once you understand the movie, it sprouts its wings and really soars (although one can enjoy the movie either way).Helpful hint: Think of the characters as highly stylized personifications of feelings, emotions, well pampered with a white face and camera, after which, it becomes, dare I say, rather logical. Even the camera, given much trepidation by the great Robert Blake, is utilized to represent something, a virtue - truth. The film is a real masterpiece and can stand up to all the films most renowned today. I also recommend Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Dr.
J. R. Rebuck
DVD Review: Doesn't make a lot of sense but so much fun to watch!!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I felt very confused after watching this movie for the first time. I then went in search of explanations from other viewers and learned that I didn't really miss anything-it isn't supposed to make sense! After realizing this, I am much better able to enjoy the eerie weirdness of this movie. DVD Review: Intense, brilliant, memorable....Lynch's least known masterpiece....
Summary: 5 Stars
Many talk about Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire as Lynch's mind melters, but this was the first film of his (other than Eraserhead) to really push the surreal, nightmare, "dream" "logic" that has permeated his films since (except for The Straight Story).
I was always a fan of Lynch's, but this film was a genuine surprise when I saw it. Siskel and Ebert, who I admired very much when I was young but became disillusioned with them in the 90's when they recommended practically everything they saw, dissed this film. The poster in the newspaper said "Two thumbs down! Siskel and Ebert. Two more great reasons to see Lost Highway.". Well, that was the keeper. I saw it, I loved it, and it's Lynch's most underrated film.
Everything thing in this film works, from the great, complex script, to the moody, intense cinematography, to the great sound design (and exemplary use of music). It was made in 1995 during a decade not known for artistic films. It has great performances (especially by Patricia Arquette and Robert Blake). It has great scenes, like the one where Bill Pullman "calls" his own home from Blake's cell phone, and Blake is at Pullman's home. It still creeps me out. It's also the last film by Richard Pryor, who was confined to a wheelchair due to his multiple scerosis. The film never lets up in its intensity. There are no dull momments in its 135 minute running time. You will be transfixed.
This film doesn't make any literal sense, but if you surrender to the nightmare of it, it's pretty damn awesome. It's one of Lynch's most memorable, mesmerizing works, a great precursor to his later "nightmare" masterpieces, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire.
DVD Review: Excellent film, not as confusing as some would have you believe
Summary: 4 Stars
I disagree with the opening line of the Amazon Editorial review which says "Plot is a meaningless term when trying to describe Lost Highway". Frankly that's the answer for lazy people who don't like thinking as part of their movie-watching. [SPOILER (kinda) ALERT] The plot is an answer to a question: How do people deal with a reality so horrific they can't face it?
Also, if you've never seen a David Lynch film, you'll see that the anngles, the colors, the elements and scale in the shots, are all part of his mood setup and are jsut as important to what he's going for as the story is.
Description of Lost Highway
This psychological thriller combines murder, mystery and deception as only David Lynch, the critically acclaimed director and writer of Blue Velvet and Dune, can. Lost Highway will keep viewers on the edge of their seats up until the explosive, unforgettable ending!Plot is a meaningless term when trying to describe Lost Highway. Here, more or less, is what happens: A noise-jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) suspects his wife (Patricia Arquette) of infidelity. Meanwhile, someone is breaking into their house and videotaping them while they sleep. The wife is murdered and Pullman is convicted of the crime. Then, in prison, he transmogrifies into a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) who is subsequently released, since, after all, he's not the guy they convicted. Getty goes back to his life and meets a local gangster's moll, who happens to be played by Patricia Arquette... but none of this has much to do with what the movie is really about. Dreams are what intrigues director David Lynch. Not friendly, happy dreams; his dreams whisper that what we think is real is just something we made up, something to keep ourselves from falling into chaos. Characters are fragments. Events happen not because they make sense, but because deep down we want these things to happen. Of course, in Lynch's dreams, as in our waking lives, getting what we want is not always pleasant. In the movie's best moments, you really have no idea what you're seeing. The screen is a big rectangle of color and shadow, but what it represents, well, it could be anything. And yet, in those moments, you've been given just enough hints of place, character, and story that these elusive images elicit a genuine dread, a sense that you might not want to see this, yet you can't look away; a sense that we are living on borrowed time, that something is fiercely askew in our psyches. As a whole, Lost Highway is a failure: much of it is padded, gratuitous, and indulgent and pointless cameos bog down an already sluggish narrative. Yet within that failure are moments worth more than the entirety of most successful movies. --Bret Fetzer
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