Lost Highway [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray] [Criterion Collection]

Director: David Lynch David Lynch

Overview

Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but fashionably barren house with his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). Fred suspects that Renee may be unfaithful to him, but realizes he has bigger things to worry about when a series of videotapes appear at his door that prove someone is watching his home from the outside and inside. When Renee is found murdered, Fred finds himself behind bars, but one morning Fred is no longer in his cell. He has seemingly been transformed into Pete Drayton (Balthazar Getty), a young auto mechanic who foolishly allowed himself to get involved with the wife of gangster Dick Laurent (Robert Loggia), a luscious blonde named Alice who looks exactly like Renee.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/11/2022
UPC:	0715515277518
Original Release:	1997
Source:	Criterion Collection
Language:	English
Time:	2:14:00
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	1,274

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bill Pullman	Fred Madison
Patricia Arquette	Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield
Balthazar Getty	Pete Dayton
Natasha Gregson Wagner	Sheila
Richard Pryor	Arnie
Lisa Boyle	Marian
Michael Massee	Andy
Jack Nance	Phi
Jack Kehler	Guard Johnny Mack
Robert Blake	Mystery Man
Henry Rollins	Guard Henry
Gene Ross	Warden Clements
Scott Coffey	Teddy
Gary Busey	Bill Dayton
Robert Loggia	Mr. Eddy/Dick Laurent
John Roselius	Al
Lou Eppolito	Ed
Jenna Maetlind	Party Girl
Michael Shamus Wiles	Guard Mike
Mink Stole	Forewoman
Leonard Termo	Judge
Ivory Ocean	Guard Ivory
David Byrd	Doctor Smordin
F. William Parker	Captain Luneau
Guy Siner	Prison Official No. 1
Alexander Folk	Prison Official No. 2
Lucy Butler	Candace Dayton
Carl Sundstrom	Hank
John Solari	Lou
Al Garrett	Carl
Heather Stephens	Lanie
Giovanni Ribisi	Steve `V'
Amanda Anka	Girl No. 1
Jennifer Syme	Junkie Girl
Matt Sigloch	Assistant No. 1
Gil Combs	Assistant No. 2
Greg Travis	Tail Gate Driver
Leslie Bega	Raquel
Marilyn Manson	Porno Star No. 1
Twiggy Ramirez	Porno Star No. 2
Angelo Badalamenti	Composer

Technical Credits

David Lynch

Barry Gifford

David Lynch	Screenwriter,Director
Barry Gifford	Screenwriter
Tom Sternberg	Producer
Mary Sweeney	Producer
Deepak Nayar	Producer
Elaine J. Huzzar	Casting
Ann Kroeber-Splet	Special Effects
Johanna Ray	Casting

Editorial Reviews

Another extreme exploration of the darkness within, Lost Highway (1997) marked David Lynch's cinematic and artistic comeback after Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992). A bold move away from typical Hollywood narrative, Lynch and co-writer Barry Gifford craft a quintessentially Lynch-ian mind game of multiple identities, heroes, villains, and femme fatales that defies conventional space and time. Spiked with such evocative film noir images as a highway at night and a burning cabin, Lost Highway's tale of jealousy, murder, and retribution becomes the ultimate noir fever dream of sexual terror, yearning, and violence, yet Lynch still finds a hopeful space for woozy romance between Balthazar Getty and Natasha Gregson Wagner. Even as the story flies out of control (though Robert Blake's disturbing "Mystery Man" seems to know all the answers), Lost Highway remains a sound/image tour de force, particularly in the ultra-moody first half before the cacophony explodes in the second half. Making its perversity the prime attraction, Lost Highway's ads trumpeted its two thumbs down from mainstream critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel; Lynch's next film, The Straight Story (1999), however, precisely lived up to its title.

All Movie Guide - Lucia Bozzola