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Summary: The solution to this puzzle is BARELY out of grasp.
Review: To Amazon and David Lynch: I'll buy a copy of "Lost Highway" when it comes out on DVD, okay? The home theater setup that my partner and I have invested in has spoiled us, and we don't even bother with VHS anymore. Videotape pales in comparison to the superior audio and visual quality of DVD.The first time I saw "Lost Highway" was by way of a very poorly transferred preview tape with a timecode at the bottom of the screen. The lousy video and audio quality combined with the extremely oblique plot and narrative structure left me scratching my head and saying, "HUH?" Later, when the film made its way to one of our local movie theaters, I decided to give it another chance. That the audio and visual quality was vastly better goes without saying ... and I was also able to mull over the story and at least try to piece together the puzzle. After I viewed the film yet a third time, having rented a copy from a video store, my opinion of it had improved greatly. But make no mistake about it: Viewers who like their movies spoon-fed to them and want plot and narrative to be tidy and neat will not like this film. In "Lost Highway" David Lynch has given us a world in which the notions of cause and effect are not QUITE was we are accustomed to, a world in which one might literally assume a new identity if pushed to emotional extremis, a world in which one might come face to face with his own doppleganger in the darkened hallway of one's own home. You can watch "Lost Highway" over and over, and each time you might feel like you've come a little closer to putting all the pieces together and solving the puzzle ... but the solution forever evades your grasp ... just barely. It's frustrating and provocative all at once, an enigmatic Rubik's Cube of a film. Many people don't like movies like this, but I do. The best works of art are often the most intellectually challenging, and in David Lynch's universe a good mystery doesn't necessarily have to have a solution.
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Summary: "I like to remember things"......
Review: I often think that David Lynch starts by creating his films by producing the soundtrack, then adding "some visuals" and the story evolves from it in an organic way. This certainly appears to be the case with "Lost Highway." If you liked Twin Peaks: Fire walk with Me for it's general level of weirdness then you'll love "Lost Highway" The film is more coherant than Twin Peaks - less strange stuff for the sake of it. The symbolism is much more subtle and grafted onto the plot. It's a terrifying film, not because there is anything in there that is gory but it's so quiet, dark and moody that you get an uncomfortable feeling watching it (now *that's* directing). The story? Well, it's difficult to explain and makes Dune seem like "The Waltons" in comparison. As Lynch puts it, it's about a man who experiences a 'psychotropic fugue' to get away from his current existance The soundtrack is simply staggering and I don't just mean the music. Lynch seems like the only director who actually USES sound to his advantage to tell the story, scare or horrify the audience. The music is terrific, I bought the album straight after seeing the video, David Bowie, Angelo Badalamenti all in one. Along with the Twin Peaks movie this is Lynch's finest work (yes, it's better than Blue Velvet). Make sure you see it in Widescreen too!
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Summary: Why can you say?
Review: Ytilaer fo weiv ym fo em sdnimer. Tnaillirb yletulosba! Where's the DVD?
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Summary: Like Being Trapped In A Dream Scenario
Review: I enjoy watching this movie at night. This way it feels as though you are trapped inside of an amazing Dream Scenario that you can't find your way out of. That is why this movie is one of the most entertaining films ever made. You can lose yourself in its atmosphere, like being in a trance that you hope you never have to leave. This movie, like all of David Lynch's movies, is refreshingly original. You will never find another movie like this ever. This is one of a kind. Don't try to figure out just what has happened. You are left just as confused as when you started, but that's the nature of it. The mysteries aren't revealed and are open to analysis, but trying to pick it apart takes away the magic. I like it when a movie leaves you breathless and curious. This way you can watch it again, and again. It never gets old. This movie may not be for all tastes, but for those who appreciate David Lynch, this is the most fun you may ever have when you watch a movie.
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Summary: The circle is a divine figure
Review: David Lynch is perfect when he works with a circular figure. You start with a situation, and a couple or characters, they shift, magically into other characters, and then they end back at the beginning. The devil is among us and he is the one who manipulates us into believing there are no limits between spheres and times. It is absolutely psycho-anything-you-want. You get giddy, dizzy and even kind of mentally sick at that ever-rotating satanic merry-marry-go-round. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Universities of Paris IX and II
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Summary: One of Lynch's Best
Review: Definitely one of Lynch's best films. Much better than Wild At Heart or Fire Walk With Me or Dune, I think. Not quite equal to Blue Velvet or Eraserhead, but pretty close. Unlike Lynch's "failures," this film isn't dominated by scenes that stand alone, superior to the film as a whole. The whole thing comes together in an inventive structure that is as integral to the work and as interesting as certain stand-out individual scenes. The biggest criticisms leveled at Lost Highway have been aimed at the seemingly incomprehensible narrative, but the same criticism can be leveled at, for example, the literary works of James Joyce. Why are films held to a different standard than literature? I don't know, but it is a key to why film critics in general are some of the dimmest, least perceptive people out there. My only question is why the heck isn't this thing on DVD by now? What a shame!
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Summary: Lynch's best work since ERASERHEAD
Review: When I saw this in the theater back in March of 1997 I absolutely hated it. And I don't mean I just strongly disliked it -- I hated it with a passion, swore it was one of the worst movies I'd ever seen. I have liked everything else by David Lynch (well, maybe not DUNE) but LOST HIGHWAY was so dense and impenetrable that it left me shaking my head. Thank goodness I like Lynch's stuff as much as I do or I might never have given this one a second chance. Wow. What a difference a repeat viewing makes! I can now appreciate the incredible layers of meaning and surreal symbolism that make up the fabric of this film. Next to ERASERHEAD, this is probably the best thing Lynch has ever done (BLUE VELVET would be #3). The story (if you can call it that) moves very, very slowly but it offers a major payoff for anyone with the patience to stick it out. Lynch has never made what could be called an out and out "horror film" (even though his films are always very disturbing) but this is, without a doubt, his creepiest and most nightmarish. I'm tempted to say it is not for the squeamish but if you know anything about David Lynch you will assume this without being told. The only real problem with the film is that it tends to drag during the middle hour. But the beginning and ending are as awesome as anything Lynch has ever done. As always, make sure you get the Widescreen Edition of LOST HIGHWAY. It was filmed 2.35:1 (Lynch's usual aspect ratio) and is unwatchable when butchered for pan & scan. One question: Where's the DVD?
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Summary: David Lynch Fan
Review: I started with Eraserhead many, many years ago, & have been a loyal Lynch fan. Every genius creates at least one piece of art that is not very good. This is the one. No matter what he does, I'm going to watch it, but once was enough for this movie. I watch repeats of everything else he has done, but this one.If you dont' get it I will tell you, so stop reading here. The main character is crazy, & you are seeing the movie from his viewpoint.
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Summary: Eerie film noir in 'classic 1950s-stlye' fashion!
Review: Cult director David Lynch creates classic 1950s-style film noir in 'anti-90s' recycled fashion. Seeing is truely believing as we are bestowed the eccentricities that is David Lynch's frightful fantasy world. What is contrasted to his many other films, which are indeed similiar stylistically, is its hypnotizing pacing as carboned in 1950s film noir. Bill Pullman's finest performance to date. Don't miss Robert Liogga as psychotic gangster who posseses absolutely no patience for tailgating! Spine-tingling score by Lynch's regular composer Angelo Badalamenti. Check out its' soundtrack(quite possibly the most creative soundtrack all time)! In a nutshell, "Lost Highway" is a film like nothing we have seen before. Possibly a dramatic style you will not see for a while to come. Only for the true film connoisseur. (Try to catch its similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo")
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Summary: The lost bastards.
Review: This movie is the movie of an alternative hell. Every characters is veild under the spell of bad man wearing lipstick and mascara. But that is to tell too much. In this film you sense the absence of good, therefore evil blends and becomes just frightening. David Lynch is done whit evil now. He has disspelled it, and thereby became it's master. I don't think he will ever make an evil movie again...Or will he?
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