Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm
This film, which also screens on March 22nd, is part of the David Lynch season at Close-Up Cinema that runs throughout March. Full details here.
Film Society of Lincoln Centre review:
Most of David Lynch’s later films straddle (at least) two realities, and their
most ominous moments arise from a dawning awareness that one world is
about to cede to another. In Lost Highway, we are introduced to
brooding jazz saxophonist Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) while he lives in
a simmering state of jealousy with his listless and possibly unfaithful
wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). About one hour in, a rupture
fundamentally alters the narrative logic of the film and the world
itself becomes a nightmare embodiment of a consciousness out of control.
Lost Highway marked a return from the wilderness for Lynch and
the arrival of his more radical expressionism – alternating omnipresent
darkness with overexposed whiteouts, dead air with the belligerent
soundtrack assault of metal-industrial bands, and the tactile sensations
that everything is happening with the infinite delusions of
schizophrenic thought.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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