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Mulholland Dr. is a 2001 film by director/writer David Lynch.
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Jun 12, 2012
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I'll admit that this is my first time watching a David Lynch film, but Mulholland Dr. blew me away.
While this film certainly benefits in having an edge-to-your-seat gripping storyline and compelling characters, the ultimate strength in this film lies in Lynch's refusal to explain the movie, which allows us to create our own ways of fleshing out what really happens and what the film really means.
The only thing that may turn off some viewers is that there's a few lesbian sex scenes in it.
While this film certainly benefits in having an edge-to-your-seat gripping storyline and compelling characters, the ultimate strength in this film lies in Lynch's refusal to explain the movie, which allows us to create our own ways of fleshing out what really happens and what the film really means.
The only thing that may turn off some viewers is that there's a few lesbian sex scenes in it.
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woopak_the_thrill
June 13, 2012
This took me multiple viewings to figure it out, and then, I don't think I have uncovered its many layers as of yet....
RabidChihuahua
June 13, 2012
I think Mulholland Dr. is one of those movies that someone will never "fully" understand since its basically structured in a way where you can make up what happens.
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Madpenguin
June 12, 2012
If there's ever been a movie to force you to think it was this one. I had to watch it twice back to back. I would like to see this again because I haven't seen it so many years.
RabidChihuahua
June 12, 2012
I think I might re-watch this one myself in order to get a better comprehension of it. It's safe to say that this film is one of those that separates the thinkers from those that need to be spoonfed everything.
Madpenguin
June 12, 2012
Yeah it is. Everyone who I've ever met to not like it just didn't get it. And you would have a hard time getting them to admit that too.
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**** out of **** After one has seen David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive", the word "Silencio" has become one of the most haunting words in cinema since those spoken by Marlon Brando ("The horror...the horror") in "Apocalypse Now". It might be an irrelevant comparison overall, but both are films that linger in the corners of our minds. Both are less than conventional even if Lynch exists more on his own terms than Francis Ford Coppola ever did (although he is a fine filmmaker; … more
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In 2001, David Lynch (director of Dune and creator of Twin Peaks) released a complex mystery film that defied the genre rules and mystified audiences. So what's it all about? The film stars Naomi Watts, in an outstanding performance, as a seemingly naïve and innocent young actress who stumbles upon a car crash victim with amnesia, played by Laura Elena Harring. The two befriend one another and begin to search for clues to the haunted woman's … more
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review by TomBenton.
June 21, 2005
Originally filmed in 1999 as a TV pilot, "Mulholland Dr." was rejected. The next year, David Lynch received money to film new scenes to make the movie suitable to be shown in theaters. He did so - and created one of the greatest, most bizarre and nightmarish films ever made. The film really doesn't have main characters, but if there were main characters, they would be Betty (Naomi Watts) and Rita (Laura Elena Harring). Betty is a perky blonde who's staying in her aunt's apartment … more
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David Lynch has crafted a very clever thriller that's so unusually sequenced that you are thoroughly confused at the end of watching the film. The DVD has minimal bonus material and no commentary. It does provide some clues in the DVD liner to help you figure out what the meaning of everything in the movie is and the sequence of what actually happened. This is a truly challenging thriller that has a lot of darkness and foreboding. There are some lesbian sex scenes and a very impressive performance … more
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review by lordchimp253.
April 22, 2002
Without fail, it seems those who see Mulholland Drive have a knee-jerk reaction in one of two ways: (a) they think it's pointless and stupid and weird and they're completely baffled by it, or (b) they become entranced and absorbed...and they're completely baffled by it.The first time I saw this movie, I was in the (b) category. I couldn't explain it, I couldn't put it together, but I loved it. It begins with two story threads that are ostensibly unrelated. In one, a woman called "Rita" has lost … more
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review by AdamHunnicutt.
July 03, 2002
Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine says it best, "Lynch's Mulholland Drive is...a haunting, selfish masterpiece that literalizes the theory of surrealism as perpetual dream-state."Amazingly, Mulholland Drive was originally a pilot for an ABC TV series that never got picked up. What a series it could have been! Viewers would have been scratching their heads from week to week and still kept coming back for more. ABC deemed it too controversal, and lacked some all-around faith. It seem's the censor's are … more
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review by gradyharp.
April 17, 2002
David Lynch is his own man and he is unafraid to put out films that are untouched reruns of his own wild imagination. MULHOLLAND DRIVE drives some people crazy because of their need for absolute resolution of stories. This little gem of a film is more like a carefully staged stream of consciousness and if you can't jump on the ride then you're missing the joy. Lynch has captured fine performances from a strong cast, explores terrain rich and strange, and even goes over the edge just enough to test … more
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Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say David Lynch, in Mulholland Drive, indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams," Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates, and nightmare visions are induced, but not before we've become enthralled by the film's two main characters: the dazed and sullen femme fatale, Rita (Laura Elena Harring), and the pert blonde just-arrived from Ontario (played exquisitely by Naomi Watts) who decides to help Rita regain her memory. Triggered by a rapturous Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," Lynch's best film since Blue Velvet splits glowingly into two equally compelling parts.--Fionn Meade
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Cast:
Billy Ray Cyrus,
Naomi Watts,
Diane Baker,
Lee Grant,
Laura Elena Harring,
Dan Hedaya,
James Karen,
Robert Forster,
Mark Pellegrino,
Ann Miller,
Katharine Towne,
Melissa George,
Matt Gallini,
Scott Coffey,
Justin Theroux,
Michael J. Anderson,
Chad Everett,
Marcus Graham,
Sean E. Markland,
Monty Montgomery
Director:
David Lynch
Genre:
Drama,
Gay & Lesbian,
Mystery,
Thriller
Release Date:
October 8, 2001
MPAA Rating:
R
Screen Writer:
David Lynch
DVD Release Date:
April 9, 2002
Runtime:
147 minutes
Studio:
Universal Studios
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