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The A.V. Club's New Cult Canon: Lost Highway
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Wed Jul 28
7:30 pm
The A.V. Club's New Cult Canon: Lost Highway at Music Box Theatre
Inspired by The A.V. Club’s New Cult Canon column, this special screening of David Lynch’s 1997 head trip Lost Highway will be hosted by film editor Scott Tobias, who will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterward. Initially dismissed as a lurid indulgence, Lost Highway now looks like a proto-Mulholland Dr. The first 45 minutes are as sustained a stretch of brilliance as any in Lynch’s career—a self-contained, carefully constructed mini-masterpiece that takes the form of a waking nightmare. Jazz saxophonist Bill Pullman starts receiving videotapes on his doorstep that at first show the outside of his house and then grow steadily more invasive. After Pullman is framed for the murder of his wife (a luscious Patricia Arquette), his identity suddenly switches to that of a mechanic (Balthazar Getty) who gets in trouble with a vicious gangster (Robert Loggia) for having an affair with his moll (Arquette again). From there, the film goes deliriously off the rails.
Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, IL
Inspired by The A.V. Club’s New Cult Canon column, this special screening of David Lynch’s 1997 head trip Lost Highway will be hosted by film editor Scott Tobias, who will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterward. Initially dismissed as a lurid indulgence, Lost Highway now looks like a proto-Mulholland Dr. The first 45 minutes are as sustained a stretch of brilliance as any in Lynch’s career—a self-contained, carefully constructed mini-masterpiece that takes the form of a waking nightmare. Jazz saxophonist Bill Pullman starts receiving videotapes on his doorstep that at first show the outside of his house and then grow steadily more invasive. After Pullman is framed for the murder of his wife (a luscious Patricia Arquette), his identity suddenly switches to that of a mechanic (Balthazar Getty) who gets in trouble with a vicious gangster (Robert Loggia) for having an affair with his moll (Arquette again). From there, the film goes deliriously off the rails.
Updated 07/27/2010
