Lost Highway
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Movie Reviews of Lost Highway
Movie Review: Lost Highway
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a big David Lynch fan, and this was worth waiting for. To David Lynch, if you are reading this please, please keep up the good work. There are many ways to explore art, and yours covers all the areas both on the surface and below, most other movies are shallow but yours pass from the surface into the inner contiousness with ease.Movie 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.Movie Review: Classic David Lynch film finally on DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember when this movie came out in the mid 1990's. This is classic David Lynch weird. Has a great and intricate plot, as well as a start studded cast. Glad it finally came out on DVD.Movie Review: bummed about no features
Summary: 3 Stars
i love this movie. i had no problem following it when i first saw it in the theater and still love it today. i am extremely bummed out by the fact that the features that were to accompany this disc were omitted. the multi angle featurette with lynch is clearly not here. i haven't checked out the transfer quality yet but my guess is that it is a high compression transfer, around 5 gb or so. buy it for the movie if you don't have a region 2 player . if you do, buy the german release.Movie Review: Lesser Lynch...
Summary: 2 Stars
David Lynch is one of those directors who you can't help but admire because he really understands his own aesthetic so well that he is genuinely `himself' at all times. Every time you turn on a Lynch film it is unmistakably a Lynch film, and so you have to appreciate the level of technical skill and focused energy taken to craft these cinematic nightmares (that is not meant in the negative).
While I consider Lynch a true auteur and a borderline genius, and I take great pleasure in declaring works like `Eraserhead' and `The Elephant Man' true masterpieces, there is a fine line that Lynch can walk, to where his directorial choices can either serve for the greater good (like the aforementioned) or where they can get in the way of his true genius (like `Inland Empire').
Sadly, `Lost Highway' can join `Inland Empire' as `lesser Lynch'.
It's not like there aren't moments here to be cherished, for I don't think there is any Lynch film that is a complete disaster, but `Lost Highway' (for me at least) is his worst film. It feels jarringly incomplete and unfocused. Lynch is the master of layering elements that don't necessarily go together in order to create a macabre structure that, in the end, `goes together', but his weaving here doesn't create a fluid product. The meshing of the two worlds (a gimmick he doesn't know how to stray from) does create the desired dreamlike affect (something that made `Mulholland Drive' work so magnificently) and instead creates a confusion that doesn't etch itself out enough to invest itself in the audience.
You don't feel a part of the film.
Lynch's films can at times feel like amalgams of one another, all of them sustaining an emotional monotony that either adds to the narrative (like it did so splendidly with `The Elephant Man') or takes away. The opening segments of `Lost Highway' feel stilted due to the zombielike direction. Sure, it feels like Lynch, but it also feels lazy and underdeveloped. The films second half picks up pace, but they two halves don't make a whole, and you need that revelation to tie them together. While Lynch supplies it, it doesn't really connect like it should.
For a film that contains jazz, parties, sex, gangsters, transmorphing, murder, adult films and a video obsessed executioner; `Lost Highway' feels kind of empty.
Thankfully, there is a big redeeming factor here, and that comes in the form of Patricia Arquette. I don't normally find her to be the best actress in the world, but her performance here is actually quite stunning and wholly necessary to the propelling of the plot. She tackles a slew of personality fluctuations with ease and layers her multiple characters with enough differences and similarities to make them feel real. It's a shame that Pullman and Getty are so vacant and numb, and it's a real shame that Robert Loggia (who is normally just plain brilliant) is reduced to a variation of Dennis Hopper's, Frank Booth, from `Blue Velvet' (one of those performances I just didn't get).
Oh well, Arquette is amazing (award worthy amazing) but the film itself is kind of pointless and not worth seeing.
I hate saying that.
This is Lynch.
I'm supposed to love everything he does.