Lost Highway | 
| Actors: Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Patricia Arquette
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  317 reviews
Sales Rank: 6154
Format: Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD62102337D
UPC: 025195018111
EAN: 0025195018111
ASIN: B001152TL6
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
Release Date: March 25, 2008
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/25/2008 Run time: 135 minutes Rating: R
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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 intrigues director David Lynch. Not friendly, happy dreams; his dreams whisper that 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 color and shadow, but what it represents, well, it 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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 Either I'm going deaf or the movie volume stinks July 5, 2009
Stacey L. Swain (Mishawaka, IN)
Haven't watched but 5 minutes of the movie because the volume of the movie is so low I can't hear anything being said unless I turn it up to 30 on my television where I usually have it at 8 or 10! I'll try watching on my computer with my headset cranked and see if I can't make out what is said,
 The Paradox of Life May 27, 2009
Tarek Al-Duaij (KUWAIT)
The Paradox of Life?
If God exists and his orchestration of life always for our very best, Cruelty must be an illusion.
99.9% of people would disagree cruelty as illusion yet definitely agree God all powerful, merciful.
Although this paradox probably does not describe "Lost Highway", David Lynch manages to communicate the haunting-most paradox of life in the haunting-most way.
This is a film to feel and experience. Not to understand.
This is a film to use as a guide to better orientate yourself within the paradoxical realms of life.
Once your in, unveil the minotaur for yourself.
Classic David Lynch - see it repeatedly and still not know what's happened!. May 26, 2009
Puzzle box (Kuwait)
Lost Highway was definitely an experimental film, there was no straight narrative and it is guaranteed to confuse the audience, however this film was also brilliant and a genius piece of work by David Lynch. It was genuinely before it's time, and is in most respects still way ahead of the pack. 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 and you get to see something different each time you watch it.
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 throughout to help build the mood and every single shot is just gorgeously framed, the whole film has this nightmarish quality to it, like it was some kind of bad dream. I would probably compare it with Eraser Head even though both films were different and one was shot in black and white, they both had this bizarre and surreal atmosphere while this film wasn't a horror film it still had a few violent and disturbing moments. The three leads are terrific, and re-watching this edition I continue to be surprised that Balthazaar Getty hasn't broken through since.
This was probably my favorite Lynch film next to Blue Velvet as it has plenty of his usual directorial flourishes and also a killer soundtrack with lots of great artists like Marylin Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Lou Reed, Smashing Pumpkins (before they started sucking) and the musical score done by Angelo Badalamenti was truly amazing and haunting at the same time, make sure that you get the soundtrack. The story of Lost Highway focuses around a middle-aged saxophone player named Fred Madison played by Bill Pullman. Fred is accused, under mysterious circumstances of murdering his wife Renee Madison (Patricia Arquette). Whilst on death row, Fred's identity distorts and he manifests into a young man named Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), leading a completely different life. When Pete is released from prison, Pete and Fred's lives begin to cross, morphing and flowing into and out of each other until ultimately only one identity remains.
Bill Pullman is excellent in Lost Highway, and really manages to delve deep inside the character creating a really enigmatic and believable Fred Madison. Patricia Arquette's two contrasting characters are played brilliantly with great expertise, and Balthazar Getty plays Pete superbly (despite claims that throughout the making of the film he was constantly undermining Lynch and making fun of his accent). Also watch out for Robert Blake's creepy and sinister character, who exactly is this man and why does he have this demonic laugh?, you'll have to watch the film to find out. Typical Lynchian imagery abounds and once you work out what the hell is going on you'll want to watch it again and again to explore all the nuances of Fred's never-ending attempt to escape from the truth. If you love bizarre, surreal and ambiguous films that are well-crafted, sinister and wonderfully acted, then I highly recommend you go and buy this film.
Running on Empty May 5, 2009
Jay Amari (New York city)
You can't always know what the other guy's thinking, but this seems to be the pivot point upon which David Lynch crafts his essentially noir tale of fractured identity and broken dreams.
Bill Pullman figures prominently in this film as a sax player who, through a particular psychological breakdown finds himself inside another man's world, feeling his feelings, and thinking his thoughts, many of which are of violent actions approaching murder.
To attempt any reductive rationale for the Lynchian style is to do a great injustice to both the director and viewer, since part of the dynamic of the film is based on our own perception of reality and how it is visualized in the film.
Watch the movie with glee, and a decent helping of sugar- it's a wild ride down a lost highway.
Most Underrated and Underappreciated Move of All Time May 1, 2009
**** of ****
While not nearly inscrutable as most people assert, this film is as refreshing and invigorating, especially after watching all the garbage that's released nowadays, as any film in recent memory.I understand the quibbles of most people and the obvious difficulty it is for them to fathom abstractions that the movie throws one after another. Be advised, go back and watch the movie over and over, because once you understand the movie, it sprouts its wings and really soars (although one can enjoy the movie either way).Helpful hint: Think of the characters as highly stylized personifications of feelings, emotions, well pampered with a white face and camera, after which, it becomes, dare I say, rather logical. Even the camera, given much trepidation by the great Robert Blake, is utilized to represent something, a virtue - truth. The film is a real masterpiece and can stand up to all the films most renowned today. I also recommend Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Dr.
J. R. Rebuck
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