Lost Highway (1996)

	Directed by: David Lynch	COUNTRY USA Genre Mystery/Thriller/ Neo-noir NORWEGIAN TITLE Lost Highway RUNNING TIME 134 minutes
	Produced by: Nayar Deepak Tom Sternberg Mary Sweeney
	Written by: David Lynch Barry Gifford

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Fred Madison	Bill Pullman
Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield	Patricia Arquette	½
Pete Dayton	Balthazar Getty
Mystery Man	Robert Blake
Arnie	Richard Pryor	-
Bill Dayton	Gary Busey	-
Mr. Eddy-Dick Laurent	Robert Loggia	-

Review

David Lynch's least narrative film (in competition with Eraserhead) will definitely disappoint all proponents for classic Hollywood storytelling. Lost Highway bases its premise not on narrative, but on lightning, compositions and insinuations. Unlike Wild at Heart, this is not a straightforward story with hints of the surreal; it's a surreal story with hints of the straightforward. Lynch has always been interested in the surreal, but here it has become nastier and more destructive. For those who remember Wild at Heart: That same ominous atmosphere which filled Harry Dean Stanton's last scene in that movie is everywhere in Lost Highway. And although the world Lynch creates here is cryptic and to a large degree inaccessible, it is also alluring and psychologically fascinating, even if doesn't invite you in to the same degree that the best surrealist films do.