Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6pm
This film, introduced by Ben Tyrer, Lecturer in Film Theory, Middlesex University London, is part of the David Lynch season at BFI Southbank. Details here. The movie also screens on 4th and 29th January - all the 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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