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VHS : Lost Highway [1997]

starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Jenna Maetlind
directed by: David Lynch


Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5024165755655 Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound Label: 4 Front Video Manufacturer: 4 Front Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 4 Front Video Release Date: January 10, 2000 Running Time: 128 minutes Sales Rank: 6740 Studio: 4 Front Video Theatrical Release Date: February 21, 1997
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Plot is a meaningless term when trying to describe Lost Highway. Here, more or less, is what happens: a noise-jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) suspects his wife (Patricia Arquette) of infidelity. Meanwhile, someone is breaking into their house and videotaping them while they sleep. The wife is murdered and Pullman is convicted of the crime. Then, in prison, he transmogrifies into a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) who is subsequently released, since, after all, he's not the guy they convicted. Getty goes back to his life and meets a local gangster's moll, who happens to be played by Patricia Arquette... but none of this has much to do with what the movie is really about. Dreams are what intrigue director David Lynch. Not friendly, happy dreams, but ones that whisper what we think is real is just something we made up, something to keep ourselves from falling into chaos. Characters are fragments. Events happen not because they make sense, but because deep down we want these things to happen. Of course, in Lynch's dreams, as in our waking lives, getting what we want is not always pleasant. In the movie's best moments, you really have no idea what you're seeing. The screen is a big rectangle of colour and shadow, but what it represents could be anything. And yet, in those moments, you've been given just enough hints of place, character and story that these elusive images elicit a genuine dread, a sense that you might not want to see this, yet you can't look away; a sense that we are living on borrowed time, that something is fiercely askew in our psyches. As a whole, Lost Highway is a failure: much of it is padded, gratuitous, and indulgent and pointless cameos bog down an already sluggish narrative. Yet within that failure are moments worth more than the entirety of most successful movies. --Bret Fetzer

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Whu?
This is a great way to examine the difference between films and movies.
This is not what I'd call a movie, it is a piece of art, that is the point. Like most of Lynch's output, if you understand this point then you shouldn't get as angry as some cinema goers after experiencing his films.
Lynch is at heart an artist, he paints, draws, creates music and film, what he is conveying isn't a story, that's the job of an illustrator. The films he has created give off ideas, concepts, feelings, ... Read More

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- The Unexplained
This willfully mysterious 1997 movie from David Lynch has been most convincingly described as a fugue - in music, a piece in which one theme is followed by another, with the first lingering in the backdrop as a counterpoint, or alternatively as a flight from reality into amnesia.

I frequently watch Lost Highway every year and i still walk away from it scratching my head in utter confusion yet i still feel entertained by it.

Dr Clarke 7.5/10

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- Classic David Lynch - see it repeatedly and still not know what's happened
I've just watched this for the third time (in it's DTS-soundtrack version) and I still don't know exactly what went on. That's the appeal of a David Lynch film. You can watch them repeatedly and come to a different conclusion each time.

One guy is a jazz musician, Fred, with a beautiful wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). The other guy is a grease monkey who keeps a gangster, Mr Eddy's (Robert Loggia) powerful Mercedes in tune. For car fanatics, as he runs a prat who tailgated him off ... Read More

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- Classic David Lynch - see it repeatedly and still not know what's happened
I've just watched this for the third time and I still don't know exactly what went on. That's the appeal of a David Lynch film. You can watch them repeatedly and come to a different conclusion each time.

One guy is a jazz musician, Fred, with a beautiful wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). The other guy is a grease monkey who keeps a gangster, Mr Eddy's (Robert Loggia) powerful Mercedes in tune. For car fanatics, as he runs a prat who tailgated him off the road, Mr Eddy says it has 1400bhp ... Read More

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- Dont believe the hype of David lynch
Dont believe the hype of David lynch, seriouly i dont understand why david lynch is so wellknown. This film is called his best but when i saw it i was sevrely unimpressed. From all the comments i read i believed that this would be a amazing arthouse type horror from a great director but its the opposite. The film is mind nuimbingly boring with dialog kept to a minimum and when it is used its bearly worth it. The acting is ok but the story line was boring and incredably preditable and people dont believe ... Read More

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