David Lynch’s LOST
HIGHWAY
Saturday, July 9th at 9:30 PM
REGULAR ADMISSION
New 4K Restoration, supervised by David Lynch
Drawing on many of noir’s most familiar themes – the
crumbling of a guilty psyche, the distrust between men and women, the erotic
allure of the dark side – Lost Highway brazenly
deconstructs a noir narrative and reconfigures it all as balls-to-the-wall
cinematic poetry. 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 yield to another. In Lost
Highway, returning to the Cinema Arts Centre in a new 4K restoration,
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
industrial metal bands, and the tactile sensation that everything is really
happening with the infinite delusions of schizophrenic thought. A Janus Films
release. (USA, 1997, 134 min., color, DCP / Director: David
Lynch / Writers: David Lynch & Barry Gifford /
Cast: Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, Robert
Blake, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia, Natasha
Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Busey, Henry
Rollins, Mink Stole)