Lost Highway | | Cast : | Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette | | Director : | David Lynch | | Studio : | Wave Imports | | Format : | Color | | Released Date : | February 21, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | January 25, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | NONE GOOD: JUST THE BAD AND THE F-UGLY... | Content
 | At one point I considered this Lynch's best film: it is better than the commercially successful Mulholland Drive; it's probably better than Fire Walk With Me; and probably equal with Blue Velvet; still, I'm thinking now that Lynch's best film to date is Wild At Heart.
In Lost Highway, Lynch competes with the late Stanley Kubrick in expanding cineamatographic time: i.e., he slows down development to an almost stand-still ambience, which is remarkable when one considers that the very essence of cinematographic art involves movement and the development of story within a very limited time-frame--usually not more than 2 hours. So, here Lynch is actually working against the very grain of the medium by expanding the time scale and reducing the movement. Unfortunately, Kubrick was better at this as he had more taste and a better aesthetic sensibility.
Furthermore, I used to think Lynch was a great film maker, but now I see that he's really not because his works don't stand repeated viewings. At first viewing, his work is stunning and scary; on second and third viewings, etc., the the topoi don't stand up and the result is that the sense of fear, dread, or whatever, doesn't come through over multiple viewings. Hence I maintain that Lynch really didn't know his art; otherwise, why do we rate Hitchcock so highly? (for example).
Anyway, of all Lynch's films I would now rate Lost Highway his second best, after Wild At Heart, and equal with Blue Velvet.
The Canadian DVD is not very good, but IT'S STILL WATCHABLE--since that's all we have. The DVD is not so bad that one can't watch it.
NOTE: I've neglected to mention Lynch's Elephant Man because even though it includes many classic Lynchian elements the film is in a class all its own due to points too numerous to mention here. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | Disappointed in more than a few ways. | Content
| First off i have to comment on the quality of this dvd. Its crap! I dont know if the film is actually supposed to be as gritty as it looked but some the less its poor picture quality and the audio was impossible to hear the dialogue at times and then the music comes on which blasts the speakers so loud that you have to hold the remote the entire film and adjust the volume though out. At one point i had my tv completely maxed out and couldnt hear the dialogue and then at another point i had it at the lowest setting ive ever had it because of the music. Poor sound editing or poor dvd?
Now the film. If you liked Mulhaland Drive then this is the film for you. If you liked blue velvet and the elephant man then you can skip this one because aside from the gratuitous Arquet nudity this film had few redeeming qualities. Bill Pullman was terrible as usual and the rest of the characters arent even worth mentioning. I like David Lynch and thats why i bought this dvd but this one was just too slow and too empty for me to care about. If not for having to battle with the volume of this dvd i may have decided to hold my review until i had watched it a second time but i cant bare the annoyance again so that should say it all right there. Not as bad as some reviewers said (still a Lynch film) but not nearly as good as most of his work. This seemed thrown together and frankly was boring. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 17, 2005 | | Summary | what????????????? | Content
| i completely did not understand this movie at all. If you go to look in a cell to check on whoever and see another person in there, do you just say "this is weird" or go look for the person missing. It has Bill Pullman in the first hour then he disappears for a while and it's another guy. Maybe this movie is just to complicated for me to understand, but i do know it's slow and the whole thing with the video tape and Robert Blake is just too miss placed. Plus this movie is weird. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 30, 2005 | | Summary | DagviLoLcynhsHwiayh'st (Unscramble it yourself) | Content
| The above pretty much sums up the movie. The jumbled memories, delusions, and fantasies of a man waiting on death row. An existential nightmare and a true work of art. (And no, i'm not some elitist snob.) |
| Rating | | | Date | March 22, 2005 | | Summary | Do not buy this DVD!!! | Content
| This version of Lost Highway is a 'pan and scan' version. For those of you who are not familiar with this 'cropping' device, it essentially cuts out pieces of the frame in order for it to fit on a television screen, effectively changing what the director had intended for the audience to see. This version is in no way viewable. |
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