- Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Jenna Maetlind
- Directors: David Lynch
- Writers: David Lynch, Barry Gifford
- Producers: Mary Sweeney, Deepak Nayar, Tom Sternberg
- Format: PAL
- Language English, French
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: 4front
- DVD Release Date: 17 Jun 2002
- Run Time: 134 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000067NQ6
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 26,430 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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David Lynch's Lost Highway is one of the most puzzled over movies of the 1990s. After Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart audiences were prepared for more questions than answers. But this mystery is without doubt the most sinister and disturbing of all his work, which is to say it's arguably the most worthy of puzzling out.
Bill Pullman goes to jail for murdering his wife Patricia Arquette the Brunette. He metamorphoses into Balthazar Getty who falls for Patricia Arquette the Blonde. They're involved in many bad things. Getty morphs back to Pullman who's left with neither girl, but a lot of explaining to do about how Robert Loggia was involved with both and who/what on earth Robert Blake is. There are no straight answers.
It might just be possible to twist the film into a Moebius strip and work out half the chronology, but that would be missing the point. Lynch makes paintings that move and if they happen to tell a tale (thank you The Straight Story), that's just a happy by-product. This film is "about" a lot of things: obsession, the impossible notion of owning a partner, why tailgating is wrong. Beyond that, it's about nothing more than enjoying just how sensually delicious everything looks and sounds on Lynch's Highway.
On the DVD: Lost Highway is presented on disc in Lynch's preferred 2.35:1 ratio (anamorphically enhanced), even if it isn't the cleanest of transfers. Sound however, is only two channel stereo, whereas 5.1 mixes do exist elsewhere. The teaser trailer is hardly worth the effort. --Paul Tonks
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16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
English
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Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital Stereo
Chapter Selection
Trailer
Teaser
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Dolby Digital Stereo English
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This fine DVD re-release for Lost Highway will hopefully open it up to a wider audience. Alongside Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, this is one of Lynch's most significant unsung works. A critical and box office catastrophe on release, it has in recent years thankful been reassessed in some quarters. Lost Highway was an experimental film, genuinely before it's time, and is, in most respects, still way ahead of the pack.
Bill Pullman stars as Fred Madison, a man with a marriage that is falling apart and a crumbling psychological state. Convicted of the murder of his wife (Patricia Arquette), he is put on deathrow, where he goes through the most uncanny transformation...
Much has been said before about the impenetrable nature of Lost Highway's story. And while it is not an easy film at times, there is a strong narrative which makes sense if you engage with it. However even if you don't fully 'get' it, Lost Highway is still so rich. One of the few films I can think of which is actually just as enjoyable if you don't know what's going on. The tone achieved by Lynch in the opening 40 minutes is awesome and remains just about the best sequence in cinema of recent times.
This is a film where all the elements are alive for the viewer. The sound design is meticulously thoughtout to help build the mood and every single shot is just gorgeously framed. The three leads are terrific, and rewatching this edition I continue to be surprised that Balthazaar Getty hasn't broken through since.
But how does this edition compare to the one before it? Very well. The picture has been cleaned up quite a bit (the deep blacks of the opening credits made me wonder exactly what ratio the film was in for a moment). This being a David Lynch DVD the extras aren't exactly overflowing, but the second disc has some nice interview segments and is in keeping with the level of depth Lynch fan's will have come to expect from other recent special editions.
Lost Highway. A modern classic. Definitely worth your attention.
44 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm not going to review the film because if you're looking at this you already know what it's about! (or go to imdb.com)
Instead I'll review the DVDs.....
Instead I'll review the DVDs.....
Just watched this new edition, released in UK 6 Feb 2006, last night on 80" screen. Looks and sounds fantastic!
No cigarette burns (as per old R2 & R4) or any film blemishes or artifacts at all. Anamorphic 2.35:1.
Daylight scenes looks fabulous, but in some of the darker scenes (mainly in their house) there is some grain but not distractingly so.
The DTS is very good, extremely wide ranging and very deep when it needs to be - gave my M&K 350 sub a good workout.
Marilyn Manson & Rammstein sounded excellent as well as Angelo Badalamenti's score.
No sync problems ala the German version.
The menu's are moving and very "David Lynch" and include a 'who's who' which when you select a character name it plays a small clip of them from the film.
The second disc totals 90+mins and has 2 interviews with David Lynch 2005 & 1996, and 1996 on set interviews with Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, and Robert Loggia.
A modern making of, a 1996 featurette (which features the rest of the 1996 David Lynch interview)the teaser trailer and the October Film Distributers Theatrical trailer (which seems slightly out of focus?)
It comes in a digipak with a clear slipcase which has the writing on it (ala the first R1 version of SAW) and is even reversible!!!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an extraordinary movie experience, and David may have out-Lynch-ed himself with this one. It is quite surreal and, contrary to Mulholland Drive which can be "explained" - I do not think there is a tidy plot you can unravel 100 %. It is like some mathematical surfaces that you cannot quite put flat on a plane: works 90 % but some wrinkles remain. No matter: the sound, images, atmosphere, music, characters, and story line all make this fantastic. I don't know how to describe this, you have to see this.
This is really a DVD worth having because you can watch it many times and still be amazed. BRILLIANT.
A MUST HAVE, no question.
This is really a DVD worth having because you can watch it many times and still be amazed. BRILLIANT.
A MUST HAVE, no question.
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