Lost Highway (1997)
A jazz musician, tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, suddenly finds himself 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.
Cast and Information
Directed By: David Lynch
Written By: David Lynch, Barry Gifford
Starring: Robert Blake, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Bill Pullman, Giovanni Ribisi, Patricia Arquette, Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins, Balthazar Getty, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Michael Massee, Scott Coffey
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Horror, Mystery
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djemba | 97 99th |
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I was manipulated by a master of manipulation
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djross | 92 98th |
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No director understands better than Lynch the uncanny strangeness of the fact that cinema is a kind of collective dream, that experience is a kind of cinema, and that the background of our own dreams is our accumulated cinematic experience. Perhaps this movie is the best illustration of that tripartite understanding. A film that can be properly viewed only at high volume in a well-equipped movie theatre. Blu-ray disc is a poor transfer but still the next best option. Re-watched September 2017.
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KasperL | 90 97th |
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Scary nightmare, sexy neo-noir and mindfucking mystery combined into a brilliant fever dream. Chasing Lynch's carefully placed clues is a fun bonus but, for me, this one is all about the atmosphere. No other filmmaker envokes dread and a sense of foreboding through sound and visuals quite like Lynch.
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| 6 | Coheed | 100 97th |
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There are many aspects to this that will divide viewers, but one of Lynch's most abstract works behind INLAND EMPIRE has been stuck in my head ever since I first watched it. It has continued to compel me with its dark and surreal structure on another viewing, and its now one of David Lynch's best films for me.
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Magb | 90 85th |
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Mysterious, beautiful and weird. When it comes to Lynch's more surreal work, many people like to simply get swept away by it and not think too much about what it might mean (even Lynch himself does that, to a certain extent), but to me, trying to figure out what's going on is half the fun. And if hopelessly trying to figure out what the hell is happening on screen sounds like a good time to you, then you can't go wrong with Lost Highway.
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terrymac | 75 72nd |
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Rollins! Busey! LOGGIA! More nightmarish shenanigans from Lynch, with a lot of shagging chucked into the mix. The soundtrack was pretty odd. Robert Blake was very creepy. Lost Highway is compelling, challenging but (reasonably) comprehensible, and very entertaining; Lynch's grasp of the craft ensures a level of quality control. Like Mulholland Drive, my understanding of the plot, etc, is growing (I think) as time passes - this'll be worth another watch to see what else is revealed. Decent.
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Alex Watkins | 4 70th |
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Much of Lynch's work can be described as variations on a theme, and while it was mostly Lost Highway's horrific moments I recalled - "We've met before, haven't we?" - I think this could frankly be described as his sexiest film, even moreso than Mulholland Drive. Also possibly his funniest, with Robert Loggia absolutely devouring the screen every second he's on it. And it warms my heart to know Lynch is as fond of This Mortal Coil's "Siren Song" as I am.
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Nathan S | 4 74th |
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A vague and miasmic fusion of dual imagery, meticulous sound design, paranoia, sexuality, and classic noir tropes. It is a relentlessly haunted and unsettling film, and may be the closest Lynch has come to outright horror.
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BillyShears | 80 77th |
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The scene with Bill playing saxophone in the club is the dorkiest thing Lynch has ever done. Blake actually going on to kill his wife is the least shocking thing to happen in real life.
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MartinTeller | 83 77th |
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Undeniably Lynchian, spinning a fascinating and enthralling web that almost, but never completely, makes sense within its own nightmare logic. Boiling the film down to its essence, I dug it. But I had a few problems with the execution. Pullman is good, but Arquette just does nothing for me, and Getty just seems wrong, like he doesn't quite understand the material. Secondly, I don't want to sound prudish, but do we need that many sex scenes? And the soundtrack is half wonderful and half horrible.
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Pickpocket | 9 93rd |
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One of the most confusing and awesome movies ever. Henry Rollins? Fuck yes.
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That's fucking crazy, man.
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frederic_g54 | 9 90th |
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(2nd viewing) I still consider "Mulholland Dr." to be the more polished version of "Lost Highway", more accessible to the heart the mind, but this is still a pristine noirish Lynchian kaleidoscope, full of mystery and intrigue, and I pretty much love this film.
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adrian | 90 97th |
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Lynch's most underrated film.
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Lindsey24 | 93 96th |
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Loved it; the puzzle refered to by user th_mertens is indeed an ellaborate one, but I do not believe it stops at the plot. While you can get bogged down with so much connected symbolism in the soundtrack, effects, script, etc, I believe to really enjoy any Lynch film, one needs to reflect simply on the big picture. This is a film about fate and free will; what horrors and ecstacies can be found at the end of vastly different paths. A good identity crisis or two is essential for Lynchian film.
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brandt64 | 60 32nd |
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David Lynch can be a frustrating filmmaker at times. He never fails to impress with his talent and style as a director, but this left me feeling empty and disappointed. Unlike some of his other films, there's no depth or meaning to be found beneath the bizarre plot. I kept on wanting for something meaningful to happen between the characters, but all I got was more Lynchian weirdness and (tons of) sex scenes. Still there are some good scenes like the tailgating one, and some fantastic images.
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overrated | 91 97th |
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Robert Blake murdered his wife in real life, incredible.
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TedDedon | 90 86th |
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Lost Highway is one of Lynch's most Lynch-like films, and that's in the most complimentary state possible. From the first segment all the way to the intense and surprisingly cohesive ending, Lost Highway screams out with hilarity, insanity, despairity, and all the other great qualities that make up Lynch's characteristics. The acting is superb but the story and style is truly where it shines. If you're interested in seeing what makes Lynch so great, Lost Highway is a good example.
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MonsterGear | 6 0th |
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This film convinced me that David Lynch is simply playing an elaborate hoax on the moviegoing public. It's as though he goes out of his way to make his films as pointlessly bizarre and unsettling as possible, and then unleashes them on an unwitting public, sits back, and chuckles with self-satisfied glee as film studies students and regular cinephiles alike discuss and interpret meaning where none exists. WELL I REFUSE TO PLAY YOUR GAMES DAVID LYNCH
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| 2 | tomoscaradog | 95 95th |
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Exists halfway between reality and a nightmare. Uneasy erotic scenes and a truly disturbing 'mystery man' chill you to the bone. Deeply unsettling, makes your knees weak and gives you butterflies. Fantastic.
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lumpnboy | 96 99th |
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One of Lynch's greatest, like a postmodern-day 'Vertigo', if I can be forgiven for invoking, solely for periodisation purposes ('Vertigo' was already modern-day, after all), a concept that is so very late twentieth century. (No-one can build an academic career anymore organised solely around one's erotic relationship to the word 'postmodernism'.)
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luc | 95 98th |
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Fantastic like the movie Blue Velvet, bizar excited movie,
beautiful filmed.
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| 2 | boredoms | 92 97th |
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Compulsively watchable, deliriously creepy and above all beautifully crafted, with some of the very finest and most poetic stretches of Lynch's filmography. Although it most lacks the devastating emotional punch of the similar (and superior) Mulholland Drive, it does sort of make up for that by being so damn beautifully shot and overall more "cinematic" in feel. A wonderful mind-fuck of a film that I can watch endlessly, precisely because it doesn't ever solve its own mysteries.
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Bown | 88 88th |
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I like it cos it's Lynch doing noir and is genuinely creepy as hell. Also the soundtrack manages to work despite being Rammstein and shit.
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deaddilly | 85 84th |
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More feverish, primal and sexual than Mulholland Dr. but still very much the same film in many ways. In this case a grief dream/nightmare fuelled by male incompetence and psychogenic fugue.
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Valenzetti | 88 81st |
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I've seen it quite a few times, now, but I'm still noticing details I'd missed before, like how when the uncanny starts to invade the domestic scenes in the beginning of the movie the camera's placed above eyelevel, looking down on Pullman. I'm also struck now by how much closer Inland Empire is to it in style than Mulholland Drive. Underestimated in Lynch's canon.
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hellboy76 | 69 73rd |
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I was very confused but also intrigued. I don't like Bill Pullman normally but I kinda did here. I hate Patricia Arquette but she has huge bosoms.
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Groovy_Souls | 85 82nd |
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I'll be upfront with the idea that I'm not sure I picked up everything on my first watch, but even so, Lost Highway was an experience. I think the actors did incredible jobs with their roles, and as my first Lynch film, I can say that I had a great, if not challenging time. Sometimes I need that challenge in my life, and Lost Highway delivered on all fronts.
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TripleSH | 83 75th |
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I'm only giving this an 83 because of its uncanny ability to successfuly confuse whoever watches it. Anything with that kind of track record deserves some credit.
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CCLZA | 70 51st |
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Nobody pulls off such a shamelessly atmospheric Double Indemnity rip-off nightmare like Lynch.
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yilb | 20 7th |
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Just because you can't understand it doesn't mean it's good art.
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kafka1325 | 40 19th |
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This is not a way to be screwed... For me is bad movie who just have ambition to be bizarre...
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th_mertens | 78 76th |
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Just like in any other Lynch movie Lost Highway is a giant puzzle. And I'm not talking about the plot, but just every other aspect of it. The acting, the soundtrack, the dialogues, the cinematography, the light-effects, ... everything fits and every single aspect completes the other ones. But while this puzzle is doable, the plot is a big mistery and that's where Lynch lost me in this one. (Mulholland Drive seems to be the improved version of Lost Highway.)
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twincinema | 70 53rd |
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A film about mirrors and doubles which, predictably, is difficult to understand. This is probably the film people think of when they think of David Lynch. I like when the film turned into a nu-metal music video towards the end with a ton of Rammstein and Marilyn Manson (cue angry Critickers mad at my insinuation that Rammstein and Manson are nu-metal).
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caiman | 88 87th |
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Somehow amidst the nonsensical series of events, Lost Highway is able to sustain a consistent atmosphere of dread and mystery. Though it's not a horror movie, it contains a handful of wonderfully unsettling scenes. The scene where Robert Blake's character talks to Pullman's character on the phone, for example, is one of the creepiest I've seen. Lynch is great at making non-horror films truly scary.
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nilkynarfy | 60 48th |
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What works, Lynch did better in better movies. Otherwise, it's bloated, commercial, and borderline hack. Yet somehow confusing and overly weird? ( ilked the weirdness though) Hell, if the dialog didn't seem like it was written by a space alien, I'd think it was a Lynch ripoff. Nacho finest hour, Mr. Lynch.
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Kain424 | 35 12th |
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Neat to watch, but there's nothing really special about it.
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Potzblitz | 100 96th |
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This film is so fucking brilliant. Wow. I don't get it at all, but it makes perfect sense. I've watched it several times, and I've been stunned every single time...
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SicilianClan | 80 64th |
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lynch!!! nunca se sabe con sus peliculas...
un jazista que recibe un mensaje en el timbre de su casa donde le dicen que alguien a muerto... un eneredo entre un mafioso, su esposa, y un intercambio de cuerpos.. YA NI SE. JE
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| 1 | Dustyd | 50 22nd |
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Very Lynchian, but I'm not a fan of Lynch. I liked some of the visuals, Arquette's body included, but the movie didn't impress me overall.
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phaedrus | 95 99th |
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Terrfying and sometimes difficult to watch, but full of shimmering tingly bits.
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purgatos | 84 80th |
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I loved this! More than just wondering exactly what's happening and when it is, you can be caught wondering who is actually who.
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tathiel | 87 90th |
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One of my favourite Lynch movies. It's a puzzle but it's not that a mystery that you give up trying to solve it.
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Gilly | 90 84th |
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Rammstein Porno Marilyn Manson FTW!
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| 1 | tntota | 100 93rd |
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Great!!!
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Neonman | 91 93rd |
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(Un)bearably slow to begin with, and then things happen in their own Lynch way over and over again and the movie continues to get better. The Mystery-Man is such a great creation; he has one scene where he shifts the mood from unknowing dread to laugh-at-of-your seat hilarity. Well, might not be funny for everyone, but I really did laugh out of my seat.
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janus | 80 77th |
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Rewatched January 2016. Similar to Mulholland Drive it depicts a guilty person having an elaborate fantasy of innocence. Spooky as fuck and its style is stunning, possibly the most audiovisually beautiful of Lynch's work in fact, but something feels inessential and cheesy about it--maybe that Mulholland Drive did it better.
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moraesfelipe | 65 62nd |
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David Lynch is a filmmaker of mood, not of narrative, and everyone knows it. But it's hard to find something interesting in Lost Highway, a film that is maybe too cold, that keeps itself distant from the viewer. And when we manage to make contact, to connect with the character's inner demons, we just don't like what we see or even the way Lynch shows what he wanted us to see.
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eraserhead | 100 95th |
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my favourite movie of all time
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| 1 | getmoney | 81 60th |
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Probably Lynch's most fun movie, but not his best.
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Seryxa | 25 43rd |
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An exploration of four characters in search of each other that leaves them, and the audience, too often stranded in limbo.
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omgfridge | 9 92nd |
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On par with 'Mulholland Dr.' but it hardly matters. It's a Lynch film so interpretation can be be pretty much pointless. Creepy, intriguing and just as fulfilling as you'd expect.
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Piglet | 77 85th |
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Lynch doing what Lynch does best, messes with your head, and the cast's.
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| 1 | oaic | 0 3rd |
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The first half is just a bunch of old films noirs refilmed second-for-second, like that remake of psycho. The second half is some music videos for Ramstein and Marylin Manson.
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aney | 87 94th |
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I can't say I understand the movie but I love it all the same. So yeah a typical Lynch movie. Not too fond of the soundtrack though.
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freqflyer | 83 72nd |
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Lynchian weirdness at its finest.
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psim | 83 86th |
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Caught in a mind-bending loop of paranoia, infidelity, and danger, both the characters and the audience are searching for clarity. In typical Lynch fashion, this film defies a simple explanation or interpretation, but excels at creating a nightmarish mood.
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DerDude | 9 86th |
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A nightmarish collage of deepest emotions pieced together by a pale guy short of eye brows.
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wetwillies | 80 37th |
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The Mystery Man will be appearing in my nightmares tonight...
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| 1 | Sepher | 90 57th |
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It's hard to find another director who does this kind of strange surreal, shockingly vivid images of Americana. Lynch makes the movie seem like we got to step to the side a bit and see what is going on just outside of the typical perspective.
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marciosoares | 100 88th |
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MASTERPIECE!
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redacted | 82 77th |
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Lynch somehow conjures a new form of supernatural reality & lets it play out before us in Lost Highway leveraging nineties cool along the way. The film stock cinematography is worth noting as well as the stop start ST that utilizes Rammstein (remember Rammstein?) frequently. I think the true highlights are the intermittent moments of emotional dread captured in an obscure but deafeningly accurate form, using all available film techniques. We've met before haven't we?
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Rufam | 80 85th |
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David Lynch is the Devil.
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glumpy_99 | 92 85th |
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Bizarre, wilfully obscure exercise by Lynch may have even less genuine subtext or 'meaning' than usual (except Lynch's recurring fascination with identity) -- but repeat viewings firm the logic and construction of the plotline so that on a subconscious level, everything 'fits', even if it still makes little sense. Hypnotic (and oftentimes terrifying) scenes and situations abound, especially whenever a marvellously creepy Blake is on-screen. A genuine one-off, even in the Lynch canon.
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iyisinek | 45 10th |
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aldatmak, porno sektörü, yasak iliski, cinayet, beden degistirme, müstehcen, gerilim, gizem (sacmasapan bir film iste mantik aramaya gerek yok.)
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| 1 | elo | 100 96th |
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WwWwWwoOoOoOoOwWwWwW
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non_curo | 96 92nd |
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An infinite loop from David Lynch, which will give your brains a stack overflow.
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SpikyCactus | 60 20th |
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Top badass moment? Mr. Eddy dealing with the tailgater. As the driver of a speed-limited van that people in cars think it’s their right to overtake, I can relate to his indignant fury. (For information, Range Rover drivers are the worst.) This is a movie about the consequences of losing your satnav, which was made before civilian GPS systems were in widespread use. It also features a character who looks like a cross between Dave Vanian and Dave Greenfield. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
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Gnalkhere | 90 91st |
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What year is this?
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??? | 79 79th |
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A personality disorder without a personality.
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eCitizen | 10 2nd |
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I can't be the only one who thinks this story makes no sense at all. Robert Blake sucked beyond belief!
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Paxton | 75 78th |
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To think that Robert Blake was this creepy before he murdered his wife. Yikes.
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| 1 | Snareface | 100 92nd |
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I think about this movie all the time.
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Ag0stoMesmer | 5 98th |
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Sexy, funny, scary, exhilarating, if aliens ever ask what it's like to be human...
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NBD Rab | 75 46th |
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A haunting fever-dream that dares you to make sense of it. Suffers from a tiny bit of inconsistent tone (i.e. the wacky angry crime boss straight out of a Tarantino film, and a baffling Richard Pryor cameo), but otherwise reels you into its mad and maddening world.
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karamazov. | 57 76th |
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The relentless formalism of INLAND EMPIRE is more to my taste, but this is really good. I expect Robert Blake's "Mystery Man" will visit me again in my nightmares. As with a good portion of Kubrick's filmography, its concern is very much with male anxiety/desire, and all the Lacanian implications that follow, I'm sure, blah blah blah...
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dardan | 85 89th |
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Lynch films should come with some background reading.
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rosenritter | 6 49th |
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NO idea.
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kito1 | 50 24th |
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A drawn out, impenetrable mess. Is it all symbolic? Is it all just bullshit? Who knows?
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| 1 | Parasite | 50 54th |
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Instead of guessing what it is supposed to mean, wouldn't it be more productive to look at what the movie actually is? We may discover that the essence of the story is the two most generic noir motives: "a dame to kill for" and "a wrongfully accused", both of which are extremely schematic and underdeveloped. The endless praises yet imply the very debatable claim: that simplistic mediocrity of the plot's comprehensible parts is completely redeemed by the coarse surrealistic sews here and there.
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| Average Percentile 65.6% from 5781 Ratings |  |