Fred: "I like to remember things my own way"

Cop: "What does that mean?"

Fred: "How i remember them, not necessarily how they happened"

Maybe this explains the whole movie? I dont know.... My brain hurts!

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

An absolute blast of horror and powerlessness. I feel totally destroyed by this one.

Mulholland drive is a different version of the same film but better imo

alyssa edwards what the fuck is going on in here on this day

The more I watch David Lynch’s sleazy, schizophrenic, doppelganger-infatuated deathmare that is Lost Highway, the less sense it makes to me – and I’ve now seen it a fair few times. Yet, I still find it compulsively watchable and endlessly intriguing. I completely appreciate that Mulholland Dr. (2001), now regarded as something akin to the Citizen Kane (1941) of the twenty-first century, is the better film as it all but locks together with a much more tantalising fully realised dream logic that only Lynch can create, but this film simply possesses a more sinister, bitter intensity that keeps me coming back to it. In terms of quality, I’d likely rank at least five films above Lost Highway, but it is probably my second most-watched after Blue Velvet (1986). Go figure.

Still, the appearance of Marilyn Mason and the use of Rammstein on the soundtrack now appear rather quaint and not as abrasively shocking as they once might have appeared.

Looong float on shipless oceans

One thing that’s always been the primary reason I love David Lynch movies is the general uneasiness. The low tones in the sound design, the Dutch camera angles, the just-slightly-off performances. To me, this feels like the movie where Lynch fully embraces that uneasiness and makes almost a horror film. Where I get lost, obviously, is in the narrative. Act 1 is a great set-up and I would’ve much rather seen a full film about that story than the narrative split in Act 2. Things get a little more interesting in the third act, but it ends on a kind of silly note. All in all, a great movie on an aesthetic level that isn’t without its problems. It’s just as engaging but frustrating as any of his movies.

Also, Lynch has got some baggage when it comes to women. Jesus Christ.

Im Gegensatz zu "Mulholland Drive" fielen mir beim Wiedersehen mit Lynchs originaler Wahnsinnsorgie nun doch einige Längen auf; insbesondere die zweite Hälfte, mit Robert Loggias nervigem Gangsterboss und der ganzen Film Noir-Variante mit einem schauspielerisch nur durchschnittlich begabten Charlie Sheen-Double (Balthazar Getty), hat mich nach der immer noch grandiosen ersten Hälfte nur wenig gepackt. Da halfen auch die grellen Porno-Rammstein-Marilyn Manson-Effekte und eine wirklich wahnsinnig heiße Patricia Arquette nur wenig.
Aber klar: ein Klassiker des Mindfuck-Kinos. Und Bill Pullman ist hier eindeutig besser als in "Independence Day".

definitely my favourite lynch film so far, like all of his movies i've seen; i didn't understand a thing about the plot but this one had such a unique nightmarish feel to it, every time i felt as if i'd pieced this movie together it would fall apart again. i don't even want to be able to understand what this is about because it'd just ruin what made this such an enjoyable watch but i was absolutely transfixed on this film and i made me want to hang onto and look deep into every line of dialogue and when a movie makes me want to study like that, it's special.

While I enjoyed the story and it’s structure, as well as Lynch’s signature style and mood, there is something I found really off-putting about the heavy use of the of-it’s-time alt-rock and nü metal. I think it really pulled me out of my immersion into the incredibly dream-like and surreal reality of the film.

“It’s been a pleasure talking to you”

Lost Highway is a deeply confusing film. It’s an eerie sort of coherency that should make sense but doesn’t. The story itself should be reasonably simple to follow along with, but every scene carries a strange feeling that makes it incredibly obscure and keeps you constantly second guessing. This will definitely warrant a rewatch some time soon.