Lost Highway

The film is a brilliant feature-length manifestation of his subconscious:....though I like the casting of half-mad Gary Busey as Pete's father-but it isn't as off-the-rails as Wild At Heart , Lynch's other collaboration with writer Barry Gifford.....The 10 seconds of footage is simple, just a surveillance swipe across the exterior of their house, followed by an abrupt cut to snow..... ... Full Review

the oddness of his movies is striking....B movie from the back lot got illogically wedged into one of Antonioni's chronicles of slow-burning anxiety.....The sex scenes are idyllic, often shot in heavenly white light, but short-lived.....While the narrative is fractured here, the police (and the viewer) assume that Fred killed her....But even as Lost Highway runs itself off the rails, Lynch still conjures up powerful images and memorable oddities..... ... Full Review

Lost Highway is not an artistic failure; in many ways, it's Lynch at his most daring, emotional, and personal. I dwell so exhaustively on the opening 45 minutes of Lost Highway because it contains some of Lynch's most haunting, prosaic work. ... Full Review

the oddness of his movies is striking....B movie from the back lot got illogically wedged into one of Antonioni's chronicles of slow-burning anxiety.....The sex scenes are idyllic, often shot in heavenly white light, but short-lived.....While the narrative is fractured here, the police (and the viewer) assume that Fred killed her....Arquette is fearless in displaying her shapely body in front of leering men.... ... Full Review

Lost Highway is a movie about divisions, so it's fitting....Lost Highway is all oddities, and the mystery is the film itself.....though I hesitate to recommend it to the uninitiated.....detached appreciation of Lynch's pristine composition of the shot (the cinematography, by Peter Deming, is superb throughout).....It's classic Lynch --.... ... Full Review

That's why she tapped David Lynch 's 1997 film noir, "Lost Highway," as the basis for a stunning musical theater piece which premiered--fittingly--this past Halloween, in her hometown of Graz at Helmut List Hall. Lost Highway" dramatizes a peculiar mental disorder know as "psychogenic fugue"--that's probably why audiences and critics didn't now what to make of it at first (and still don't). ... Full Review

This is the vast landscape Adamson sculpts, a landscape with a void aching to be filled. Song by song, "Nothing Hill" creates a dark ironic world with misguided intentions. ... Full Review

By crafting his movie this nonsensically, Lynch has taken away the fourth wall--by completely disowning logic and workable narrative, he makes this our experience.....But he was too lazy to actually construct a plot..... ... Full Review

With barely a trace of humour, lashings of menace and a decidedly non-linear approach, Lost Highway isnt going to win him any new fans. A funny thing happens as you travel down David Lynchs Lost Highway. You know bad things will happen. ... Full Review

Instead, Lynch delivered a brilliant film that forged his signature elements, film noir stylings, and hard-boiled plot motifs.....Gifford proffered explanation for the contrasting views of reality (a "psycho-genic fugue") is useful for those puzzling out the film after seeing it....Curiously, the confusing plot structure of this film were judged harshly at the time.... ... Full Review