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2002 DVD edition insert Giving the film only the tagline "A love story in the city of dreams", David Lynch has refused to comment on Mulholland Drive ' s meaning or symbolism, leading to much discussion and multiple interpretations. The Christian Science Monitor film critic David Sterritt spoke with Lynch after the film screened at Cannes and wrote that the director "insisted that Mulholland ...
Jul 3, 2024 · The cast members of Mulholland Drive have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with. The list you're viewing has a variety of actors, like Naomi Watts and Robert Forster, in it. If you want to answer the questions, "Who starred in the movie Mulholland Drive?"
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The list of characters across Mulholland Drive. Spoilers will follow. Protagonists Betty ElmsPlayed by: Naomi Watts An aspiring actress who has just arrived in Hollywood looking for her big break. Also a doppelganger of Diane Selwyn. The Ace: …
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Naomi Watts as Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn Laura Elena Harring as Rita/Camilla Rhodes Justin Theroux as Adam Kesher Ann Miller as Coco Mark Pellegrinoas Joe
Supporting
Robert Forster as Detective McKnight Brent Briscoe as Detective Domgaard Dan Hedaya as Vincenzo Castigliane Angelo Badalamenti as Luigi Castigliane Monty Montgomery as The Cowboy Lee Grant as Louise Bonner James Karen as Wally Brown Chad Everett as Jimmy Katz Richard Green as The Magician Rebekah Del Rio as Herself Melissa George as 1st Camilla Rhodes Jeanne Bates as Irene Dan Birnbaum as Irene's Companion Lori Heuring as Lorraine Marcus Graham as Mr. Darby Michael J. Anderson as Roque Patric...
Development
Originally conceived as a television series, Mulholland Drive began as a 90-minute pilot produced for Touchstone Television and intended for the ABC television network. Tony Krantz, the agent who was responsible for the development of Twin Peaks, was "fired up" about doing another television show. Ironically, Lynch written "I will never do television again" on a piece of plywood. It was originally a script for a pilot for ABC. David Lynch sold the idea to ABC executives based only on the stor...
Casting
Four people stand beside each other facing off-camera, from left to right: a blonde woman wearing a tan dress suit, a man with salt-and-pepper hair wearing a blazer over white shirt and slacks, a brunette wearing red pants and a black top, and a dark-haired man wearing a black leather jacket over black clothes. Lynch cast Naomi Watts and Laura Harring by their photographs. He called them in separately for half-hour interviews and told them that he had not seen any of their previous works in f...
Filming
Filming for the television pilot began on location in Los Angeles in February 1999 and took six weeks. Ultimately, the network was unhappy with the pilot and decided not to place it on its schedule. Objections included the nonlinear storyline, the ages of Harring and Watts (whom they considered too old), cigarette smoking by Ann Miller's character and a close-frame shot of dog feces in one scene. Lynch remembered, "All I know is, I loved making it, ABC hated it, and I don't like the cut I tur...
Giving the film only the tagline "A love story in the city of dreams", David Lynch has refused to comment on Mulholland Drive's meaning or symbolism, leading to much discussion and multiple interpretations. The Christian Science Monitor film critic David Sterritt spoke with Lynch after the film screened at Cannes and wrote that the director "insist...
Naomi Watts beaming and facing into soft light holding the arm of an older woman while they take a down escalator at Los Angeles International AirportBetty (Watts) arrives in Los Angeles; pictured with Irene (Jeanne Bates). Betty is bright and optimistic, in contrast to Diane—also played by Watts—in the later part of the film.Betty Elms (Naomi Watt...
A short, strange-looking man seated in a large wooden wheelchair under an intense beam of light in a large and sparsely furnished room; a desk is in a far corner and the walls are covered in curtains.Dwarf actor Michael J. Anderson, as Mr. Roque, was fitted with oversized prosthetic limbs to give him the appearance of an abnormally small head.The f...
The album progresses much like a typical Lynch film, opening with a quick, pleasant Jitterbug and then slowly delving into darker string passages, the twangy guitar sounds of '50s diner music and, finally, the layered, disturbing, often confusing underbelly of the score.Neil Shurley, 2002The soundtrack of Mulholland Drive was supervised by Angelo B...
Mulholland Drive premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival in May to major critical acclaim. Lynch was awarded the Best Director prize at the festival, sharing it with co-winner Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There. It drew positive reviews from many critics and some of the strongest audience reactions of Lynch's career.
Lynch was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for the film. From the Hollywood Foreign Press, the film received four Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture (Drama), Best Director and Best Screenplay. It was named Best Picture by the New York Film Critics Circle at the 2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards and Online Film C...
Mulholland Drive: Directed by David Lynch. With Naomi Watts, Jeanne Bates, Dan Birnbaum, Laura Harring. After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
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Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
