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Lost Highway
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195018111
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD62102337D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Running Time: 135 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/25/2008 Run time: 135 minutes Rating: R
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent film, not as confusing as some would have you believe
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Hell is Repetition
There are those cinema experiences that will always stay with you for various reasons that sometimes even have little to do with the movie you saw, as I will always remember seeing "From Dusk till Dawn", at the midnight hour, not just because I loved the movie, but more so, that during that night in the next few hours the relationship with a girlfriend was initiated. Sometimes a movie is stuck in your memory, because you were deeply moved by it because you totally identified with one or several characters, ... Read More
Rating:  - A bad movie that everyone should see once.
The movie starts out with a man (Bill Pullman) that suspects his wife (Patricia Arqhardtospell) of cheating on him. He finds video after video proving that it is happening. After a bit into the movie, she ends up dead and the man ends up in jail.
In jail he has a strange dream the night before he disappears and is replaced by another man entirely! It is assumed that he transforms, it is not shown. The 19 year old that replaces him (Getty) is released and the original man is never mentioned again. ... Read More
Rating:  - Limps across the finish line.
Parts of Lost Highway are David Lynch's best work, in my opinion -- namely, the first half-hour or so. It is a brilliant satire of Los Angeles. The David Bowie song couldn't be better. Lynch's style has never been better.
Where things go horribly wrong is when the film veers in a totally absurdist direction by completely breaking the fourth wall and creating a dual narrative filled with doppelgangers and parallel structure. Now, while this is a promising idea, it means as a screenwriter your task ... Read More
Rating: - This is Elegant Dark Art
Yes, this film has Logic & a Plot!
It is not the familiar Logic and No familiar plot, nonetheless - it is a dark & elegant piece of art.
Here a witch-man played by Robert Blake curses and stalks a young monotonous couple to shake up their life - similar to the dumpster-witch in Mulholland Drive. (Witch herein is used in the popular sense, not the true respected sense).
Upon playing mind-games with the couple - Blake's character discovers where the plot should really take place - in an ... Read More
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