Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty

Set in a city suspiciously like Los Angeles, both blazingly modern and resolutely retro in look and feel. A jazz musician, tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, suddenly finds hims...( read more  read more... )elf accused of her murder. In a parallel story, a young mechanic is drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that both women may, in fact, be the same woman. The men are also connected by a mysterious turn of events that calls into question their very identities.

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R, 2 hrs. 15 min.

Directed by: David Lynch

Release Date: February 21, 1997

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DVD Release Date: March 25, 2008

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  • October 20, 2009
    Bizarre film noir about a jazz saxophonist and his wife who begin receiving mysterious video tapes from someone who appears to be filming them while they sleep. Typically Lynchian, surrealist film kicks off with one of the creepiest set ups ever filmed, then trashes that story a...( read more)nd completely falls apart. Fascinating first half gives way to a narratively baffling second half. Identities change, characters disappear and sexual encounters occur without even a trace of eroticism. A deeply flawed film, but the initial neo-noir mood is so hypnotic and spooky, it cannot be dismissed.
  • April 22, 2009
    "lost highway" is actually not as incomprehesible as most people think by first-time viewing, and it's probably the most "linear" storytelling of lynch, a zigsaw awaiting to be jointed together. from my perception, it's about a night-club jazz musician's suspicion upon his wife w...( read more)ho constantly cheats on him and possibly an underground amateur porn actress. so the betrayed hubby sets his way to brutally slaughter all the cuckolds involved, then escaping the police as well as his chaotic life forever in the lost highway. the rest is his nightmarish imaginations of love, lust, self-loathe and hate. so he dreams of killing his wife to be sentenced to electric chair to be redeemed/rejunvenized as a stud-like young dude who gets laid around, particularly the blonde seductress who resembles his estranged wife (in reality, he's so traumatized by doubts that he cannot even consummate the intercourse, ain't we always dream what we can't have?). but when the issue of the woman's promiscuous treacheries occur, the gleeful dreams of erotica awakens by the gruesome reality as he gazes her orgastic expressions on the pornographic screen, shame and humiliation start to take over in its way to torment him. then he retreats to his impotent older true self after the young dude makes love and exclaims "i want you" repeatedly...the response is leanly echoed, as our femme fatale whispers insidiously "you will never have me!"(truth revelt.)...all this wronged husband could do is to obliterate his rival who disgraces him. at the last scene, he talks to the doorgate speaker "dillon is dead!"(as if his mission is completed) then drives toward the highways to get lost for good since his affections cannot be requited and his possessive lust cannot be fulfilled despite he revengefully gets riddance of his symbol of shame in the middle of desert.

    patricia arquette shall be one of the hottest actresses in the 90s, ideal incarnation of neo-femme-fatale, blonde bombshell and the gritty it girl with edges. she has to bare and dangle her tits over 5 men within this movie, from young to old, handsome to ugly(they're all lucky bastards. ha)...it surely does transmit a daredevil raw sensuality like a contemporary barbara stanwyck without hesitant pretension but brazenly unlimited sesuality while she struts naked in her immaculate luring body. spicy furry red heels or leopard short-jacket, any overly gaudy clothings just look right on her. she even has a bettie page reminiscence hairdo at the start.(everything about this woman is all sexualized.) in one moment, she even poses a gun to tease the man and tells him to stick it into his pants(what an obvious insinuation), and she wears leopard jacket like woman predator with a residual of vintage glamour. which actress in the 90s or 2000s could rival THAT? patricia arquette is the coolest postmodern femme fatale/phallic woman could ever be in the pinnacle of the prime stage of 1990s.

    bill pullman is a mighty surprise since he was the typecasting of mr. right in those 90s chic flicks. and belthazar getty does have it-boy aura of marlon brando in "the wild one" with his leather jacket and the big harley. (david lynch must love those archetypes since the vintage hollywood hommage appears even stronger in muholland dr.) "lost highway" would probably be the best neo-noir ever made in 1990s(letting alone the tarentino jokes) as well as lynch's most contagious work so far since it has one of the best soundtrack in contemporary cinematic history when industrial rock'n'roll weds so gluingly with improvised jazz.
  • April 13, 2009
    The more I see of David Lynch the more I'm convinced that he has little or no regard for the space/time continuum. Whether or not all the pieces of Lost Highway 'fit together' is a subject better suited for a film studies class than a Flixster review. All I know is that ...( read more)I enjoy Lynch's work far more when I stop trying to puzzle everything together and let myself get lost in the story.

    Lost Highway is spooky-good. A cinematic amusement park that's part roller coaster, part fun-house and part side-show. I absolutely loved it.

    *NOTE: Did anyone else get the impression that Robert Blake's character would feel right at home playing chess in an Ingmar Bergman film?
  • January 7, 2009
    New favorite movie. Will figure out exactly why soon enough (besides all the obvious that many others have probably already mentioned). After a few more absorbs and reading the reviews already up, I'll add my highlights and "oops we missed this" commentary.
  • December 7, 2008
    The O.J Simpson case through the deceitful mind of David Lynch. A powerful, twisted, devilish jigsaw. eerie Robert Blake.
  • November 1, 2009
    Really good. Judge Lynch by his own standards: he's not overrated, not underrated--his films just offer an alternative to people who are bored with formulaic crap.
  • October 25, 2009
    Bill Pullman is excellent in this one. But the David Lynch schtick runs pretty thin for me here. It seems too easy to spin a weird, non-linear tale if you're not going to bother giving any kind of reason for major plot points. Lots of style. But I call BS on the lack of subst...( read more)ance.
  • October 10, 2009
    I hate movies that confuse me. The ending was weak.
  • September 28, 2009
    Okay, I'm confused. I want to watch it again, because I'm intrigued, but Robert Blake's so creepy!
  • August 16, 2009
    I think David Lynch likes to write with a white pencil to a white paper.It is really hard to see what is written but at least at the end you are having a white new paper which you can write on it.? like Lynch cinema's because of this reason.And "Lost Highway" is a great example f...( read more)or this.

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  • jacqsierae
    October 5, 2008
    I thought it was very interesting . In fact I liked it so much, i ordered a used DVD, from Amazon.com. Patricia Arquette is a great actress in my eyes, anyway.
  • maciolo
    January 28, 2008
    For me the movie is great, like a dream. But there is one song missed in the motion picture soundtack. It's in the final part when they make love on a desert, lightened by a beam from carlights, in slow motion. If you know who performs it and what's the number title, please let me know, mp3:)?
  • rachzilla
    May 28, 2007
    Just a little note... love love LOVE the scene where Patrica Arquette is getting out of the car to Lou Reed's "This Magic Moment". Also, "Apple of Sodom" is my favorite Manson song ever.

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