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Title: One of Lynch's Best
Review: Definitely one of Lynch's best films. Much better than Wild At Heart or Fire Walk With Me or Dune, I think. Not quite equal to Blue Velvet or Eraserhead, but pretty close. Unlike Lynch's "failures," this film isn't dominated by scenes that stand alone, superior to the film as a whole. The whole thing comes together in an inventive structure that is as integral to the work and as interesting as certain stand-out individual scenes. The biggest criticisms leveled at Lost Highway have been aimed at the seemingly incomprehensible narrative, but the same criticism can be leveled at, for example, the literary works of James Joyce. Why are films held to a different standard than literature? I don't know, but it is a key to why film critics in general are some of the dimmest, least perceptive people out there. My only question is why the heck isn't this thing on DVD by now? What a shame!
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