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Lost Highway (1997) Review: David Lynch's Nightmare of Escaping Yourself
Lost Highway (1997) Review: David Lynch's Nightmare of Escaping Yourself
Lost Highway marked the beginning of an entirely new phase in David Lynch’s career. After several years away from directing following Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me—a period spent producing other filmmakers’ projects, working in television, and serving on festival juries—Lynch returned with a film that reflected on the creative crisis that accompanied the height of his commercial …
Wild at Heart (1990) Review: Love, Violence, and the Dark Side of the American Dream
Wild at Heart (1990) Review: Love, Violence, and the Dark Side of the American Dream
Among David Lynch’s films, Wild at Heart stands apart for the sheer intensity of its genre-blending, its feverish atmosphere, and its relentless energy. Lynch had the good fortune of adapting Barry Gifford’s novel Sailor and Lula, written by an author steeped in noir fiction, and that influence runs throughout the film. The novel is often described as hard-boiled crime fiction, with a …