Surprisingly, David Lynch's amazing film LOST HIGHWAY has never been properly/officially released in the USA on DVD until today, over 10 years after it's debut in 1997. One of his best, if you haven't seen it you must. Here's some clips:

LOST HIGHWAY TRAILER





ANDY'S PARTY WITH THE MYSTERY MAN (A.K.A.THE DEMON)







What are your 3 favorite David Lynch films? Here's the list:

ERASERHEAD
ELEPHANT MAN
DUNE
BLUE VELVET
WILD AT HEART
LOST HIGHWAY
TWIN PEAKS
FIRE WALK WITH ME
THE STRAIGHT STORY
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
INLAND EMPIRE



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1. Blue velevet
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Twin Peaks

1. Twin Peaks
2. Wild at Heart
3. Mulholland Drive.

Robert Blake in Lost Highway scared the CRAP out of me!!!

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead

Wild At Heart
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive


(and I was addicted to that quirky TV show Twin Peaks back in 1990, 1991)

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CindyC
1. Twin Peaks
2. Wild at Heart
3. Mulholland Drive.

Robert Blake in Lost Highway scared the CRAP out of me!!!

Yes Ma'am Dear C C, I agree, Lynch pulled off a brilliant casting move with BLAKE - same with DENNIS in BLUE VELVET.....

Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Fire Walk With Me

Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway

The original pilot of Twin Peaks with a different ending is also a contender.

Wonder why Lost Highway didn't come out earlier in the US, I've had my Pal dvd for years. As you are obviously a fan Helter, what is your take on Inland Empire out of interest?

Lost Highway's a masterpiece. It came out as a remastered, special edition DVD in the UK last year. There was talk of a two DVD set with deleted scenes, but Lynch wanted a million dollars from Canal Plus to do it and they said no. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is in similar limbo.

Three favourite Lynch films are:

Lost Highway
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Blue Velvet

Then ...

Mulholland Drive
The Straight Story
Wild At Heart
Eraserhead

I was disappointed with Inland Empire.
Inland Empire

Yeah Tseverin, I have the double deluxe "Inland Empire" DVD and, well.... when I got it from AMAZON way back I really got into the "making of" special (on disc 2) of watching Lynch work (was surprised how often he got on the edge/bitchy cause I heard from some one that worked closely with him on TWIN PEAKS (the TV show part, not movie) that he was just Mr. MELLOW all the time. Anyway, when I tried to watch the film it wasn't clicking for me.... it's 3 hours long AND this was the first time I didn't see it in a theater first (watching it on the home theater set up which obviously doesn't have the impact of a pro theater).... so it's still waiting in the box to get thumbs up or down, I've had that problem lately, getting into films at home. Love CHILDREN OF MEN, FINALLY got into BLOOD DIAMOND and love SYRIANA (and can follow the whole damn thing - that takes a few viewings). GOOD SHEPHERD is taking time as is that Clooney movie "Michael Clayton". I will be in the right mood to watch Inland Empire soon, as soon as we have a couple heavy rainy days - SPRING SHOWERS and all that.... What did you think of it??? (in reality I've heard VERY LITTLE about it from initial film to DVD release - this one kinda flew under the radar it seems)

Helter, I saw Inland Empire at the cinema in London. the first half hour or so is fairly cohesive (ok, there are the talking rabbits, but what are a few of those in Lynch films, right?), then it goes off into a very wild, seemingly random terrain of tenuously connected sequences. It's hard to actually like the film, let alone love it. The end credit sequence is superb though.

The DVD doesn't have any individual chapters. The US DVD transfer is better than the European one, but the European DVD has a whole hour of deleted scenes, sequenced without chapters, like the main film. It's like a separate film.

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HelterSkelter
Surprisingly, David Lynch's amazing film LOST HIGHWAY has never been properly/officially released in the USA on DVD until today, over 10 years after it's debut in 1997.

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What are your 3 favorite David Lynch films?

POOR Americans!! Nice thing that they finally released it!

My Lynch Top 3 (hard choice!):

Lost Highway
Twin Peaks
The Straight Story

AND Elephant Man, AND Mullholland Drive AND...Shit - love them all!

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Nikolai
Lost Highway's a masterpiece. It came out as a remastered, special edition DVD in the UK last year. There was talk of a two DVD set with deleted scenes, but Lynch wanted a million dollars from Canal Plus to do it and they said no. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is in similar limbo.

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I was disappointed with Inland Empire.

The first version of Wild at Heart here in Germany had the deleted "Totem Pole" sequence as a bounus. There were big piles of it in the shops, so I waited a little to long. When I finally decided to buy it, they had deleted the title temporarily. Now it's been re-released as a "Collector's Edition" but ironically without the extra sequence (!)

Maybe they feared it would be banned for the 16 year olds...



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Hi Helter, think I basically agree with Nikolai. Great cinematography (especially considering it was all shot on digital video), great sound design as usual, great acting & brilliant scenes of sinister unbridled weirdness BUT... it's like a dream within a dream within a nightmare within a comedy sketch within a film noir within a dream. I'm a big fan of Lynch when the reality is gently twisted into the surreal or abstract but there's just not enough reality to ground it all & after 3 hours it really is hard to care what's happening, let alone understand it. I wouldn't write it off though; I can imagine seeing it again under different circumstances in a few years and loving it.

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CindyC
1. Twin Peaks
2. Wild at Heart
3. Mulholland Drive.

Robert Blake in Lost Highway scared the CRAP out of me!!!

Yes Ma'am Dear C C, I agree, Lynch pulled off a brilliant casting move with BLAKE - same with DENNIS in BLUE VELVET.....

...and Willem Dafoe in "Wild At heart"

Lukester - did you ever see Boondock Saints? Willem D is hilarious in that one!

I've only seen four of his films (counting the Twin Peaks series as a film) and liked them all. Ranking the four that I've seen...

(tie)Twin Peaks/Mulholland Drive
WILD AT HEART
ELEPHANT MAN (though it was so long ago it deserves a re-watch)

Mulholland
Twin Peaks
Blue Velvet

lost highway gave me headache thinking about it. Amazingly, it's been out on DVD in the UK for years

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Nikolai
Lost Highway's a masterpiece. It came out as a remastered, special edition DVD in the UK last year. There was talk of a two DVD set with deleted scenes, but Lynch wanted a million dollars from Canal Plus to do it and they said no. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is in similar limbo.

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I was disappointed with Inland Empire.

The first version of Wild at Heart here in Germany had the deleted "Totem Pole" sequence as a bounus. There were big piles of it in the shops, so I waited a little to long. When I finally decided to buy it, they had deleted the title temporarily. Now it's been re-released as a "Collector's Edition" but ironically without the extra sequence (!)

Maybe they feared it would be banned for the 16 year olds...

I didn't know that. Hits Ebay now ....

>The US DVD transfer is better than the European one, but the European DVD has a whole hour of deleted scenes, sequenced without chapters, like the main film. It's like a separate film.


The US DVD has @ 75" of deleted scenes (including an incredible Laura Dern monologue that's @ 15" and funnier than anything in the finished film).

Looks like I'm in the minority -- I thought IE was amazing.

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Glam Descendant
>The US DVD transfer is better than the European one, but the European DVD has a whole hour of deleted scenes, sequenced without chapters, like the main film. It's like a separate film.


The US DVD has @ 75" of deleted scenes (including an incredible Laura Dern monologue that's @ 15" and funnier than anything in the finished film).

Looks like I'm in the minority -- I thought IE was amazing.

Ok, I got them the wrong way round then.

Gee... Only three? I saw all his movies and the only I didn't like was Dune. The rest was superb. But, let's see... If I had to choose only three that would be:

1. Eraserhead for sure - one of my favourite films ever!
2. Lost Highway - dark, disturbing yet fascinating.
3. Now, I got to make a choice. Either INLAND EMPIRE (yes, great but heavy movie) or The Elephant Man (no need for comments) or Straight Story (so beautiful, one wouldn't expect that Lynch could make a movie like this, but he managed to, and it's great). OK, I'll choose Straight Story for it's beauty and warmth, but if you asked me again I could change my mind

it's hard to choose only three

inland
velvet
eraser

The soundtrack is surely one of my fav's records of all time.
it has every music style. Wonderful Bowie's voice, Ramstein at his best, Reed, Badalamenti (wouah), Carlos Jobim, Adamson (hollywood sunset, wouah again !! listen to the bass...)

the movie was a shock at the time. I came out of the theater with a special feeling, hit in the face.



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Straight Story
Elephant Man
Mullholland Drive

If he'd only made those three he'd still be one of the greatest filmakers ever (imo)

Lost Highway is for the die hard fans, not really a great movie, but I love it. Mulholland is better and Velvet too. Eraserhead is great.