Lost Highway [VHS]

Lost Highway [VHS]
by David Lynch

Lost Highway [VHS]

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Actor: Balthazar Getty, Bill Pullman, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake
Director: David Lynch
Cinematographer: Peter Deming
Writer: David Lynch
Editor: Mary Sweeney
Producer: Mary Sweeney
Producer: Deepak Nayar
Producer: Tom Sternberg
Writer: Barry Gifford
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 135 minutes
Release Date: 1998-03-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Polygram USA Video
Studio: Polygram USA Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Lost Highway [VHS]

Movie Review: Step right up. Make your choice.
Summary: 4 Stars

Lost Highway is a movie that allows you to make a choice. Is it a Twilight Zone Movie in which you're dealing with soul transference & time travel. Could be. A faustian bargain? Are you dealing with the roving inner eye of an insane mind?
That was my choice & this review will reflect that choice.

The movie starts with a man & his wife whose house is being video taped from the inside. Is this being done by an outsider, evil spirit or is this the act of a sinister plan inside the home? I say inside job. If you're messed up enough to shoot video of your place to deceive either yourself or your mate, putting it in an enevelope & leaving it outside is no biggee.

What a lovely relationship they have too. He's freaked out & she's subservient enough but also obviously has the quiet confidence to plan her way through her troubles. Enter now, the best character of the movie only listed as "mystery man", Robert Blake. He's never gone anywhere he states, that he wasn't invited. Sounds like an evil spirit all right & remember they've talked before. In my book they've talked many times, like each night as Pullman roves the corridors of his insane & escape proof mind.

You get a murder, an arrest & a conviction. So neat & tidy plus added stress on an already bent mind. What happens in Pullman's cell at night is the key to whether you go towards Twilight Zone or insanity. Is Bill Pullman & Balthazar Getty the same man. Is Pullman actually in prison or is he in the prison for the criminally insane with a real body played by Getty.

I chose Balthazar Getty as the real & very, very, sick, person in this movie. Pullman is Getty's uber-human. Pullman is what Getty wants to be. Not an auto mechanic that lives at home with mommie & daddie, BTW- great cameo's here on ma & pa, but a musician in a nice apartment with a super hot lady that belongs to one of the BIG people in his little man's world. I mean Getty covets everything he perceives as being above his station in life. The car, the women & in the end the will to be violent to obtain his desires.

Now the lady & thank you Mr. Lynch for Patricia. A perfect fit for this role which I believe you see in the show Bound. This girl wants the money & there is nothing she won't do to get it. Attracted to power like a drunk to alcohol she has finally realized that if she has the money she can be the power, not bask in someone else's. Now look at how they meet. She did sorta make the pick herself. She picked that punk as soon as she saw he couldn't take his eyes off her while she was still in the car. Lamb to the slaughter she thinks, but this isn't Body Heat even though Patricia puts out tons of that.

Actually I believe the movie is pretty straight forward once you decide if your watching Rod Serling's Twilight Zone or if your seeing inside the mind of a little man with big dreams that went terribly awry & landed him in the prison we can't escape, our own minds.

The men's dreams are trashed. The woman's dreams are killed. Even the Big Boss is pancaked out of his dream in the desert. The only winner here is "Mystery Man" who never goes where he's not invited. Where does Mystery Man come from & where does he go to? Whose call does he answer? Isn't it to be expected that as the police close in for the capture, no O J here, Mr. Getty begins to revert back to his other identity. Sorta like Psycho without the maternal leanings so no insipid weakness.

I give the movie 5 stars for entertainment value as you can get sucked in here and wake up 2 hr's later thinking only 25 min's passed. Lot's of misdirection.
I give Patricia anything she wants. I'll be Getty for her.
The rest of the cast gets 4 stars except Blake who gets 5.
Movie rating is 4 1/2 stars.
A nice trip down the lost highway of my mind.

Private rant here: Where the H was the media circus that would of surrounded Getty's release from prison. Seems Hollywood either toons the Warden, the guards, the convicts, the media or the whole system. This show used the other method which is- just don't show it.

Movie Review: LOST LOST HIGHWAY
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an awful print of the film and not worth the purchase. I recommend the 2-disc version on region 2, a fine anamorphic print ,with a vibrant DTS track. David Lynch is the master of the surreal and if you want to experience it properly then check out the european print

Movie Review: Hang In There
Summary: 4 Stars

The first half of this movie you are going to blame me for having recommended it. But then it makes a change, and entertains you. Yeah, David Lynch does that with all of his films.

Did I mention Patricia Arquette is topless?

Movie Review: "everything i want, i have.."
Summary: 5 Stars

ok, one of my favorite movies... spare the plot details. basiclly THIS is the version to get... the focus features, universal release... the other one (with the blue tint vcover) is the canadian versian.. it is pan and scan... i bought it before, when it was the only option... this one is the way to go... only thing, there are no special features, and no booklet... inland empire has a little insert for lynch coffe...lol, and special features, as does the wild at heart, (i think its a reissue, with a cardboard case) and the second print of blue velvet... hope this helps some,.....another great film/(based off a comic) very similar, is called the maxx, there was a bootleg dvd t hat was made, because there is no dvd release, and the vhs goes for over a hundo. GREAT STUFF... check it out if you havent already, ... i dont think thatll ever be profesionally released, but still great to have... thoese bootlegs are even hard to find now...

"theres a man, in back of this place.... hes the one whos doing it!!"

-matt

Movie Review: Lost Highway not so good
Summary: 2 Stars

The film quality is excellent and the DVD transfer didn't lose much. The actors are top notch, but the storyline is just weird and difficult to follow. I found the first half boring and was ready to pull the plug, but it got better in the second half. If there was a plot in there, I could not find it. If you are looking for an easy to follow, entertaining movie, Lost Highway is not the one for you.

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Summary of Lost Highway [VHS]

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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