“I like to remember things my own way”
Welcome to Harbour Highlights, a series of cult and classic films, handpicked by the staff of Harbour Lights. For November, as the days turn darker, Isaac takes us back to 1997 to revisit David Lynch’s surreal noir mystery, Lost Highway.
Hounded by mysterious VHS tapes of himself and his wife in their home and plagued by violent visions, a musician finds himself suddenly convicted of murder. The mystery deepens when the man vanishes, only to be replaced by a young mechanic with a completely different life, but one which may overlap with the musician’s fears.
Lynch’s first film project after completing the original run of Twin Peaks, Lost Highway is an essential work from the filmmaker, taking the surreal horror of Blue Velvet and Fire Walk With Me and delving deeper into it on a wider scale, something he’d go on to explore even further with Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: The Return. Starring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette and Balthazar Getty, the film originally confounded audiences but has since been revisited and reassessed as an audacious and fascinating work from an always interesting director, with one critic describing it as “Lynch at his most daring, emotional, and personal”. With a score by Angelo Badalamenti and Trent Reznor and its foreboding, dark cinematography, it’s the perfect film to rediscover on the big screen.
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