Lost Highway (DVD)

Here, at the beginning of a film-review, there ought to be some kind of plot synopsis, shouldn´t it? No chance, not with this film! Sure, one can try and write about the couple the story starts with, and how they find a mysterious videotape in front of their house one morning, and one more on each following day, showing out of his perspective the intrusion of their house by the even more mysterious film-maker, a bit further inside on every day, until he even films them peacefully sleeping in their bed. One can also write about the husband ( Bill Pullman in what is most probably his best role ever), who – after meeting a strange pale man who seems to have ...  Read the complete review

I think the key to enjoying a David Lynch movie is to stick with it and let it consume you, and Lost Highway is no different. If you've seen a Lynch film before you'll know exactly what to expect, utter head spinning craziness from beginning to end. I'm sure so many people have sat down to watch this, only to switch it off after a couple of minutes, I know I was nearly one of those people. To call it confusing would be a huge understatement! Although I found it slightly easier to follow that his 2001 film Mulholland Drive, it's still very heavy going and not for your average popcorn movie fan. Although there's so much to talk about Lost Highway is an ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room David Lynch is very much known for his utterly strange films, such as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire. One of his lesser known films, though, is Lost Highway, a trippy, bewildering plot that, like a lot of his films, is open to interpretation and doesn't have a particularly definitive storyline. Some will call this lazy, but there's no denying that Lynch is a master of the surreal, and I think this is a very clever film and one of his more accessible works. Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a successful saxaphonist, who suddenly recieves a ...  Read the complete review

'Lost Highway', directed by David Lynch, is a mind-boggling, psychological thriller-cum-horror, film-noir, released in 1997. Co-written with Barry Gifford, the author of 'Wild at Heart'; the book that inspired Lynch's film of the same name. Lynch noticed the phrase 'lost highway' in one of Gifford's books which set his creative juices flowing. It was received poorly at the box office and was not well received by most critics, probably because they couldn't make head nor tail of it. I hated it when I first saw it, but on the second viewing came to the conclusion that I hadn't been concentrating properly the first time. Anyhow, since its initial release, it has ...  Read the complete review

Lost Highway's plot is very bizarre. At first it seems like a mysterious film noir. A married couple, Renee(Patricia Arquette) and jazz musician Fred (Bill Pullman) start to recieve weird videotapes on their doorsteps, at first the tape just shows the exterior of their house. The next tape is a lot more sinister, as the mysterious cameraman is inside the house and filming the two sleeping. The two call the police, who is typical Lynch style aren't the best of police officers, and are shaken up. Meanwhile Fred is convinced that his beautiful wife is having an affair and is very paranoid about this. One night at a party, Fred is approached by a very ghost like man ...  Read the complete review