Lost Highway [IMPORT]

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Summary: German DVD small review and ordering tips
Review: I've been waiting for over a year and still no US. release for this DVD. I decided to purchase the German version from Amazon.de and not knowing any German I was nervous. What I did during the ordering process was to cut and paste all text from the German site and convert it through an online text converter. Now I'm a proud owner of Lost Highway on DVD!! The German version of Lost Highway has excellent sound quality and the picture is perfect. Be warned you must have a multi-region DVD player for this to work on or use your PC-DVD.

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Summary: Another review of the German DVD
Review: If you are able to play Region 2 PAL discs (as I am), the German edition of Lost Highway on DVD is the way to go. The English soundtrack is included in Dolby 5.1, and (unlike the Canadian edition) it's in W-I-D-E-S-C-R-E-E-N. Another review of this disc convinced me to purchase a copy from Amazon.de. Surpisingly, Amazon.de recognized my Amazon.com login! And placing the order was pretty easy, even though my German is almost non-existant.

The picture and sound quality are good (though not exquisite), and the disc even has some extras - which, on Lynch DVDs, are usually scarce. The sound track does appear to be slightly out of sync with the picture, but that could be an artifact of converting PAL to NTSC on the fly. What I wouldn't give for a multi-standard widescreen monitor...

The film itself is a dark psychological study similar in many ways to David Lynch's more recent Mulholland Drive. It's about obsession, murder, guilt, secret identities, and the demons that often drive people to desparate, destructive acts. Don't try to make sense of it the first time through; just go with it. Then, on repeat viewings, look at it as a symbolic map of a man's mind stressed beyond the breaking point. Apply a little Jungian psychology, and its meaning should, if not exactly come clear, at least brush past you close enough to touch.

Lost Highway is an underrated masterpiece of psychological horror, and not to be missed by fans of David Lynch! C'mon, you can get through the German...

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Summary: Fantastic Movie
Review: If you have a Mulholland Drive withdrawal get this DVD.
Why?

1) God only knows when the official region 1 DVD will come out.
It could be next year, 5 years from, maybe never.

2) OK, the DVD is not perfect ... but the movie is.

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Summary: Pan and Scan
Review: Just thought I'd warn all the connoisseurs that, yes, this is in fact the pan and scan version. My advice: wait for the new U.S. release. As for the movie itself: standard David Lynch fare: entertaining and incomprehensible--good stuff.

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Summary: im deraaaaaaaaanged!!
Review: Ok let me get this out of the way first, yes the dvd is godawful i know, so my rating is going all to the movie, all im saying is just buy it and bite the bullet until the American release dvd comes out (in April of next year is what im told). Now on to the film, it is a complete masterpeice! i have no clue why this movie is as underrated as it is,i was up late one night about 2 years ago watching it on the IFC channel, and the only word i could muster after it went off was "whoa". This movie has to be the most atmospheric and disturbing Lynch film ever, and im willing to back that up. You have for instance, 75% of the movie which is in either pure darkness or weird growing shadows, you have a rich creepy score,many kewl/trippy songs, awesome performances by the whole cast, has to be my favorite Bill Pullman role to date, and you know that weird blurry-jittery camera zoom you saw in Mulholland dr.? Well that was originated here first, not to bad mouth Mulholland dr. ( my second favorite Lynch movie) im just giving credit where it's due. Good scares, and just many things about this noir-horror drama that makes it a cult favorite. And why this film wasnt nominated for cinematogrpahy is beyond me, So to sum it up. a trippy TRIPPY thriller that needs many veiwings to understand completly. I havent said much about the plot becuase i dont want to ruin anything, but if you've heard about this movie and havent seen it and want to buy the dvd, trust me the less you know about this movie the better.

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Summary: Remember, its a David Lynch Movie.
Review: Okay, I know this one is way out there. Trying to decipher what its all about is an exercise in futility for us common people. Let the brainiacs figure that out and enjoy this one for its surreal images and masterful choreography. I don't understand the plot but I still love this movie. I don't know if that is possible, but when watching most of DL movies you've got to learn to enjoy it for what it offers: emotional and stunning visuals.

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Summary: A MASTERPIECE LIKE NO OTHER!!!
Review: People tell me that they refuse to accept or even watch the work of David Lynch because his films are... psychedelic. My answer to those people is very simple. "The films of David Lynch are no more psychedelic than the dreams or nightmares you see each and every night you go to sleep". Dreams and Nightmares. Visions of the mind, that is, which we can not fully grasp but nevertheless visions we want to see over and over again in the search to find something more about who we really are. That's what Mulholland Drive is all about. Accept life and enjoy a real masterpiece of art. A dream/nightmare recorded on DVD. Thanks David, we owe you a lot!

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Summary: A great modern noir classic
Review: Pigeon-holing Lynch as a noir director is perhaps a mistake, given the cramped definition many want to hang on the genre. But with Lynch, you have a talented director showing just what is possible. (Polanski did the same with Chinatown.) But with Lynch lines are blurred as image, dream, and story converge, and then flip and twist in unexpected ways, assisted by the director's use of both wondrous and disturbing imagery. To add to the layering is one of the best soundtracks for a movie I've heard in some time. Thematically each song (Lou Reed, Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, others) plugs into the movie, with all of its twists and turns. Partricia Arquette turns in a superb performance as the femme fatale(s). Her audition for Mr. Eddie to the crunching sound of Marilyn Manson's "I Put a Spell on You" is one of those scenes that burns into the mind as an unforgettable and dark tableu rather than as a piece of film. Arquette's moment, which is mostly visual, is as effective as Jane Greer's appearance in "Out of the Past", but more dangerous since the stakes are, if possible, higher: a man's mind and soul as opposed to simply his life. She is the object of obsession, she is archetype, and she is, as she tells her lover, unobtainable. Indeed. But she makes for one gorgeous nightmare.

Lost Highway may, given time, be viewed as the perfect distillation of Lynch's vision. (And I'm a big fan of Blue Velvet.) It is certainly one of the darkest rides into the American night. Though the journey is a psychological one, Pullman's (Fred's) electrocution death at the end pulls all the dark threads, internal and external, together.

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Summary: The Movie is Awesome, but this DVD version is terrible
Review: Please be warned!!! I love "The Lost Highway", but the quality of this import version is appalling! The resolution and color make it seem like the movie was downloaded from the internet. Some scenes are so blurry and dark that you cannot even see what is going on. And believe me, I have seen this movie many times as a rental, and the poor quality of this particular DVD version is not part of the "artistic" effects. It's just poor quality. Please do not waste your money buying this version! I had to send my back in because I was so disappointed!

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Summary: Without a doubt, the most horrendous movie I've ever seen!!
Review: So painful to watch . . . I'm still recovering.