I’m watching this movie for no particular reason at all. What, did something happen?
I’ve rewatched all (or just about all) of Lynch’s movie over the past few years, but I skipped this one — and I think it’s because I was just confused? I thought that this was Mulholland Dr or something.
So I don’t think I’ve seen this since the 90s.
Ssh! Now we’re watching the movie.
After watching this now, I see why I’d forgotten about it… or at least gotten it mixed up with Mulholland Dr. It’s just this is a kind of run-through of many of the themes Lynch would explore in a better way there?
But it might also be that my problems with this movie is mostly due to the casting and the soundtrack. Bill Pullman tries to act like Kyle MacLachlan, but doesn’t succeed, and the guy playing the er “other” lead guy wasn’t much better.
Were there none of Lynch’s usual troupe except the tiny Jack Nance cameo?
The musical choices haven’t aged well (except for the Bowie track) — and what’s with the stunt casting of Henry Rollins? I wonder what the story behind all this was: Nobody wanted to finance the movie unless he made it… more… 90s? Hm, looks like it was financed by a French company, so perhaps not.
This wasn’t the final movie Lynch would get to make, but The Straight Story was, er, something quite different, and then Mulholland Drive was supposed to be a TV series, but wasn’t picked up, and then Inland Empire was done digitally on the cheap, and that was it for Lynch and movies.
It’s a tragedy that Lynch couldn’t get financing for the last couple decades.
Anyway, I’m just saying: This is probably Lynch’s least good movie. Except for The Elephant Man.
Lost Highway . David Lynch. 1997. ⚄
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