If the glass coffee table corner through the skull doesn’t stand out for you, then I guess nothing will. Promoting Mulholland at the expense of Lost is like promoting Hamlet at the expense of King Lear.
what came first? lynch’s videotapes in “lost highway” or haneke’s videotapes in “cache”?
LOST HIGHWAY before CACHE, by 8 years. Very creepy conceit…
is there a line of continuity between the two films?
I don’t think Cache is as tied in to sexual insecurity and sexual paranoia as much as Lost Highway is.
Ah, but is Lost Highway better than Fire Walk with Me? Fire gets such such short shrift…
Lynch is waaaay overrated. He’s no Spike Lee. He lost it after Wild at Heart and the Straight Story. Watching his later films is like watching very bad versions of his earlier films. He’s a weirdo, and some find that cool and trendy, I guess.
Joe, I disagree: Lynch and Spike Lee ARE IN FACT THE SAME PERSON!
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I think Lost Highway failed in the beginning and David Lynch then tried hard successfully to ride it through. The beginning of Lost Highway was barren and devoid of any cinematic performances worth of attention or merit. I see Lost Highway as the blueprint which David Lynch perfected with Mulholland Drive. The idea of various layers was although not new to Lynch but introducing the various layers of deception in making the viewer perceive in his own independent way was quite young in his mind.
Mulholland Drive also made mark because it had the homosexual tones which are somehow quite in vogue among the Academy Awards jury lately. There is no conflict among both the movies and I think both are pretty much in the same league but Mulholland Drive is just a better and more deep version of the same idea.
I know people who prefer LH to MD, and I can see their point. I prefer MD – different strokes, for different folks.
I probably prefer Mulholland Drive a little more than Lost Highway, but I enjoy both films. I find parts of those films kind of funny such as the scene where Bill Pullman is handing a phone by Robert Blake and Robert Blake’s voice is on the other line or the scene where Balthazar Getty is talking to Robert Loggia and he hands the phone over to Robert Blake and makes this kind of cryptic remark, something like “they put a bullet in the back of your skull.” Or, the scene where Bill Pullman is at the house on the beach, mentions the name of the Patricia Arquette, and Robert Blake says “her name is Renee!” Then, there’s the cowboy in Mulholland Drive who is talking with Justin Theroux and I found that kind of funny as well as the scene when Theroux goes to his house, pours paint on his wife’s jewelery and is knocked out by Billy Ray Cyrus. Also, the mafia guy looking for him at his house and how Theroux’s character’s wife jumps on top of him. Also, the scene where Justin Theroux starts smashing up a car with a golf club. I don’t know if David Lynch’s aim was to make all of these scenes funny, but I sort of see them that way a little.
i prefer Mulholland dr too. When i remember Lost Highway i always remember the switching of the main character. When Henry rollins is in jail and metamorphose into someone else and you are like what…?
i don’t think its fair to compare the two, in my mind they both stand as equals of similar themes but different natures.
http://watchinshits.blogspot.com/2009/09/lost-highway-1997.html
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i guess for the sake of changing this accidental multiple posts, i’ll say that I think Lost Highway is a little more comprehensible that Mulholland Dr. Anyone agree with this?
and just for changing up the multiples again…
speaking of continuity between these films, what do people make of the last scene in Inland Empire when Laura Harring makes an appearance, assumingly revising her role(s) from Mulholland Dr.?
I love both films, but Lost Highway is my all-time favourite. Everything is just perfect to me in this movie.
Bobby Wise
do you like A films with nothing that stands out or is interesting to you?