You should give "Blue Velvet" a chance. Although it is very odd, the storyline is much easier to follow than LH and MD.

Agreed. Still one of my favotire films of all time. Most of my friends think I'm just nuts when I say this is one my top 10. Dennis Hopper is still one of the best over-the-top movie characters of all time.

What I always heard about Twin Peaks is that going in, David Lynch never planned to resolve the question of who killed Laura Palmer. The way the resolution came about was from studio pressure and also from a pure accident (of them catching "Bob" in a shot by accident).

I don't think David Lynch muddys things up to make people go "He's brilliant." I just don't think he's interested in telling his stories in the traditional way that most of us are used to it. Twin Peaks, for example...people expect the murder to be resolved. That was the last thing on David Lynch's mind, and he had no interest in telling that story in a way we would have expected him to.

I've seen movies where you can't make sense out of the crap the director puts in there (Punch Drunk Love rockets to mind) but in David Lynch's movies, there is certainly a logic to his imagery and why he does things they way he does. Whether we are guessing why they are there the way they are according to how he intended us to see it is another thing entirely.

I almost forgot to thank the genius who only put one chapter break on the Mulholland Drive dvd. My dog pressed the eject button on my dvd player and I had to fast forward two and half hours.

Here ya go...

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/david-lynch.jpg

this picture cracks me up.
http://www.cenedra.com/twinpeaks/chara/cole.jpg

I wonder if David Lynch ever wrote a novel, would he bother putting chapters in the book or would it be one long narrative without any breaks?

Why stop at chapters? He should write a book with no paragraphs! Or even better, with no periods!

One of the best things about Lost Highway is the use of the song "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil. Absolutely haunting!

Hubert Selby Jr. (author of Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn) is well known for writing like that. No paragraphs, no periods, no quotation marks either. You have to figure out who's speaking via their dialect. Eventually it's easy to read, but man does it take a few tries to get used to it. Example And click Surprise Me! too for more examples.

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Saw this again today. My fourth viewing since its theatrical release in 1997 and it only gets better. I find the story to be sort of a companion to Mulholland Drive,
but a little more difficult to figure out (but not as difficult as Inland Empire).

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I love reading these old threads. So many fallen soldiers.

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:lol: Yes, I remember the controversy of the no chapter stops on Mulholland Dr.

Haven't seen Lost Highway in about a dozen years, but that great soundtrack of it has never left my rotation.

As I recall, Lynch said the movie was inspired by the OJ Simpson case, the idea that OJ really believed--despite all evidence to the contrary--he hadn't committed the murders.

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One of the many great scenes for me in this movie is when Bill Pulman steps back into the void of the dark hallway of their suburban home that just had been violated by someone taping them in the bedroom and he just sort of fades ....away.

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Another useful thing to keep in mind when watching LH is that Lynch is also riffing on classic Hollywood film noir, albeit in a very Lynchian way.

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I've only seen the movie once when it first came out on video, but I love it for the simple reaosn that it introduced me to the band Rammstein long before "Du Hast" would become a staple of sports arenas everywhere. I will check the film out again once it hits Blu-ray in the US.