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- Yes, that Mulholland. As in, the LA figure so famous that the iconic Mulholland Drive is named in his honor (not to mention David Lynch's mind-melting mystery Mulholland Drive). Between them, Eaton and Mulholland devised a plan to construct an aqueduct to divert the water supply of neighboring Owens Valley into LA.
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Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster.
Oct 29, 2024 · Mulholland Drive, American surrealist thriller and neo-noir film, released in 2001, that is considered one of director David Lynch’s finest works. The movie is noted for its dreamlike, nonlinear structure and its exploration of the dark side of the so-called Hollywood dream factory.
David Lynch's dreamlike and mysterious Mulholland Drive is a twisty neo-noir with an unconventional structure that features a mesmerizing performance from Naomi Watts as a woman on the dark...
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Nov 4, 2021 · The enigmatic neo-noir Mulholland Drive — directed by David Lynch and shot by Peter Deming, ASC — began as the 1999 pilot for a proposed ABC TV series. When the show was not picked up, it was turned into a feature film with supplemental material shot a year and a half later, and released in theaters on October 19, 2001.
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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
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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...
Oct 15, 2024 · Like much of Lynch’s filmography, Mulholland Drive effectively includes elements of Film noir, maybe even more so in this one. It can certainly be classified as neo-noir. Taking advantage of the genre conventions of Film noir, thematically, visually, and audibly, many different things are allowed because of this.
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Oct 21, 2016 · Mulholland Drive, David Lynch’s 2001, puzzling neo noir mystery-drama recently topped BBC Culture’s poll of the 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films. It was a resounding triumph for the film because the poll asked 177 film critics from 36 countries to name their favourite films of the last 16 years.
