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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 2817
Released: March 25, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Haunting sexuality ricochet action and fleeting murderous shadows await you on a journey that begins and ends on the Lost Highway. The successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks The man in black who threatens to expose him The young mechanic with links to a powerful mobster The mobster's moll who knows what she wants and the people who can get it for her. These are the riders on the Lost Highway trapped in their worlds of desire destiny and unknown destination where the truth is always just a short way further down the road. Featuring a star-studded soundtrack and an incredible cast including Bill Pullman (Independence Day) Patricia Arquette (Medium) Balthazar Getty Robert Blake and Robert Loggia Lost Highway is a powerful sensual and extraordinary movie experience from renowned director David Lynch (Blue Velvet Twin Peaks).System Requirements:Running Time: 120 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA UPC: 025195018111 Manufacturer No: 62102337
Description of Lost Highway:
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
Lost Highway Reviews:
This is Elegant Dark Art 
2008-07-22 - 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 abandoned wooden hut in the middle of the desert, however to get to the plot - the mechanic, the cars and the jazz-playing couple need to get onto ... LOST HIGHWAY.
AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!
Lost Gem! Lynch's most underrated film 
2008-07-08 - "Lost Highway" is a wonder of a movie. It is a compelling dream-film with its own haunting nightmare logic. Most critics didn't like it. I think this is a film that bothered critics because they didn't know how to react to it. It's hard to judge the film in a conventional manner because, in many ways, this is the ultimate renegade film. Like an abstract painting, it engages the audience (if they are willing) to come up with their own interpretation of, not only what it all means, but, fundamentally, what has transpired.
See it!
Classic David Lynch film finally on DVD
2008-06-12 - 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.
David Lynch is a force to be reckoned with...
2008-05-31 - Well, as anyone who has seen the other works of David Lynch, he is a force to be reckoned with in modern cinema.
There are not many other (if at all, really?) film-makers quite like him.
Lost Highway is a simple story but its told in a very twisted way.
The atmosphere alone is strange enough and the many plot twists only make the experience better.
I have to say that many people might be turned off by the un-conventional story telling here but please give it a chance and watch it with an open mind.
Everything about this movie is great, from the music to the characters and the bizarre atmosphere that only David Lynch could create.
The DVD picture qulity is very good but I was a little sad to find no special feature at all.
This is also a movie that seems to get better the more times you watch it because you may notice things you never noticed before and the story may become clearer.
A good Lynch movie
2008-05-21 - Ok I like David Lynch movies and TP so I'm biased a bit. LH is another good Lynch movie. It's not linear and there are several ways to interpret how the different story lines are related. I won't mention how I interpreted it to avoid spoiling it for others. It reminds me of a movie I saw in middle school about a Civil War deserter(?) about to be hung at a bridge when he imagines a different reality. The soundtrack is great.
