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Lost Highway [1997] | ![Lost Highway [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WQ2BBBBAL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: David Lynch
Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Jenna Maetlind
Studio: 4 Front Video
Category: Video
Used (10) from £1.49
Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 3903
Format: Dolby, Pal, Surround Sound
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 128 Minutes
UPC: 044005344639
EAN: 5024165755655
ASIN: B00004R71O
Theatrical Release Date: February 21, 1997
Release Date: January 10, 2000
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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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 The Unexplained August 27, 2008
Brendan O. Clarke (Edinburgh)
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
Classic David Lynch - see it repeatedly and still not know what's happened May 5, 2008
D. J. HORN (Ellington Village, Northumberland, GB)
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 the road, Mr Eddy says it has 1400bhp under the bonnet. That is of course total fiction, especially in an un-modded saloon body, as is the way it accelerates from 40 - 100 in a couple of seconds (which is via trick photography). The actual car was a 1976 Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9 (W116).
Someone drops a black and white video on the jazz musician's doorstep. It's of the front of his house. In a later video drop is a view inside showing Fred and Renee sleeping. When he watches the last video drop, it shows him killing Renee and bursts into colour, at which point he finds himself by his wife's dismembered body with the cops there to arrest him for murder. He ends up in a police cell.
The mechanic, despite having a beautiful woman himself and knowing the gangster to be violent, starts an affair with the gangster's moll, Alice, a blonde version of Fred's wife. She suspects that the gangster knows and at that point things start to come off the rails.
People apparently change places with each other and are able to be in two places at once. The red curtains from "Twin Peaks" are there too.
Confused yet? You will be by the time you finish watching this, even with heavy use of the rewind button. As it says in the slipcase notes, the answers to the questions raised may be discovered at the end of the Lost Highway ... but is there an end?
Not of course family viewing, being rated 18 as there is murder, gore and Patricia Arquette getting her kit off for good measure (what a surprise!).
The soundtrack includes music by Rammstein, This Mortal Coil, Lou Reed, Barry Adamson and David Bowie.
Talking of the soundtrack, regrettably this old edition has only a stereo one. Track down the 2 DVD special edition if you can. It has Dolby 5.1 and DTS soundtracks and some nice extras including interviews with Lynch, Arquette, Bill Pullman and Robert Loggia. Don't pay over the odds though as it simply isn't worth more than the full price of a new DVD.
Classic David Lynch - see it repeatedly and still not know what's happened May 5, 2008
D. J. HORN (Ellington Village, Northumberland, GB)
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 under the bonnet. That is of course total fiction, especially in an un-modded saloon body, as is the way it accelerates from 40 - 100 in a couple of seconds (which is via trick photography). The actual car was a 1976 Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9 (W116).
Someone drops a black and white video on the jazz musician's doorstep. It's of the front of his house. In a later video drop is a view inside showing Fred and Renee sleeping. When he watches the last video drop, it shows him killing Renee and bursts into colour, at which point he finds himself by his wife's dismembered body with the cops there to arrest him for murder. He ends up in a police cell.
The mechanic, despite having a beautiful woman himself and knowing the gangster to be violent, starts an affair with the gangster's moll, Alice, a blonde version of Fred's wife. She suspects that the gangster knows and at that point things start to come off the rails.
People apparently change places with each other and are able to be in two places at once. The red curtains from "Twin Peaks" are there too.
Confused yet? You will be by the time you finish watching this, even with heavy use of the rewind button. As it says in the slipcase notes, the answers to the questions raised may be discovered at the end of the Lost Highway ... but is there an end?
Not of course family viewing, being rated 18 as there is murder, gore and Patricia Arquette getting her kit off for good measure (what a surprise!).
I had a minor problem with the audio. I was pleased to see a very good Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround mix as opposed to the original stereo. The DTS mix is absolutely stunning (as is the picture) except for the fact that some of Arquette's dialogue was so quiet I couldn't make it out. As there were no subtitles (a disgrace really) turning up was the only option but my ears were blasted off the next minute once the quiet dialogue was over.
Track down this 2 DVD special edition if you can. It has some ace extras including interviews with Lynch, Arquette, Bill Pullman and Robert Loggia. Don't pay over the odds for it though - even new, never mind second hand, it simply isn't worth more that the full price of a brand new DVD.
 Dont believe the hype of David lynch August 29, 2007
P. Forster
2 out of 25 found this review helpful
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 the other comments about a great soundtrack becasue the only word for the soundtrack is laughable. The effect in this film are laughable and you can see where david kynch has attampted to include various filming techniques but just turn out to look like window movie maker effects. Seriously if you are fans of good horror films, arthouse, thrillers or psyological films dont even bother with lost highway.
 Excellent image & Sound...Finally! February 15, 2007
T. Moffitt (Portland OR)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Like many others here in the US I had only seen this film on TV and on the rather poor pan & scan DVD available in the US prior to purchasing this edition.
This was the 4th time I'd seen the movie but it was a completely new experience!
For the first time I saw details that I'd missed on other poorer versions of the film some of which were key to the plot.
The video and audio are top notch and looked beautiful on my hi-def TV.
I would strongly urge any David Lynch fans to grab this terrific edition of one of his best films.
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