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Lost Highway

1997

David Lynch

Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty, Patricia Arquette, Robert Loggia ...

7.4

32,328

Mystery. Film noir Saxophonist Fred Madison and his wife Renee are troubled by a series of videotapes left at their door that show someone entering their house and filming them while they sleep. Then Fred receives a videotape of himself standing over Renee's slaughtered body and comes around to find himself sentenced to the electric chair for her murder. But prison authorities then inexplicably find mechanic Pete Dayton in Fred's cell and Fred nowhere to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The unnatural is second nature for Mr. Lynch, whose twisted, libidinous imagery yields nightmare films of such strange and menacing flair"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"'Lost Highway' has scattered moments of Lynch’s poetry, but the film’s ultimate shock is that it isn’t shocking at all"	NEU
United Kingdom	Christopher Hemblade Empire	"Glad to report that David Lynch is still circling planet earth in a spaceship with his mind located several galaxies beyond. This is delightfully bonkers (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"This beautifully structured (if rigorously nonhumanist) explosion of expressionist effects has a psychological coherence that goes well beyond logical story lines, and Lynch turns it into an exhilarating roller-coaster ride"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Hilarious, hypnotic and sizzlingly erotic, 'Lost Highway' is low on logic, but Lynch’s zonked, visionary magic makes it fly."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Lost Highway'' is like kissing a mirror: You like what you see, but it's not much fun, and kind of cold (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"'Lost Highway' is more cohesive than it might appear at first blush. Like no one else, Lynch goes digging for truths that people don’t know or won’t acknowledge about themselves"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Although uneven and too deliberately obscure in meaning to be entirely satisfying, result remains sufficiently intriguing and startling to bring many of Lynch’s old fans back on board for this careening ride"	NEU
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"To understand the emotional realism in Lynch’s work is, in fact, to understand the emotional realism of poetry."	POS

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