The relationship between the two films is further compounded by the prominence of a distinctive main character: the city of Los Angeles, both as a fantastic paradise and terrifying nightmare. Whereas Mulholland Drive pursues the dreams and fantasies of a naive female actor, Lost Highway offers a masculinised narrative rooted around the perspectives of its troubled male leads. I consider the former something of a sibling feature. I’ve always felt that Lost Highway – a harrowing journey into the depths of the human psyche via the tales of an avant-jazz saxophonist and a young car mechanic, each of whom is in love with a beautiful femme fatale – is overshadowed by the acclaim proffered to Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet. When Twitter users united virtual hands this year to wish David Lynch a collective “happy birthday” (the director’s 76th) in January, a few thoughts popped into my head.įor one, what’s Lynch been up to recently aside from streaming weather reports and picking a “lucky number” every day from his home in Los Angeles? Second, what’s the latest with Wisteria (AKA Unrecorded Night ) – the new series he was rumoured to be shooting for Netflix before the streaming platform apparently pulled out in 2021? And lastly, with Mulholland Drive getting a 20th anniversary restoration in 2021, how long will it be until we get a similar revival of attention for my favourite Lynch film, Lost Highway ?
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