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In the very first episode of Exploring Cinema, we dive into David Lynch's magnum opus, Mulholland Drive. We go down the rabbit hole and discuss our favorite ...
Jul 9, 2020 · Mulholland Drive is the best load of old cobblers I have ever seen. It is a masterpiece, although it is a depressing one to sit through a number of times in a row. Lynch’s failed tv pilot is definitely art and Lynchian with a capital ‘L’. Ultimately, Mulholland Drive is an actress’s movie no matter how you look at it
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Aug 23, 2016 · Mulholland Drive’s own troubled history, and the studio politics and power plays depicted by Lynch in the film itself, hardly feel like coincidences. Under its dream-like veneer, Mulholland ...
- The First Half of The Movie Is A Dream
- The Whole Thing Is A Dream
- Broken Dreams in Hollywood
- The Fantasy vs. Reality of A Relationship
- Personal Identity
- Möbius Strip
- Betty Is Diane’s Projection of A Happier Life
- Nostalgia vs. The Putrefaction of Hollywood
- Lesbian Identity
- It Defies Explanation
Perhaps the most common reading of Mulholland Drive is that the first half of the movie is a dream. It’s all over the place, it doesn’t make sense, and like the glitz of the town it explores, it’s not restricted by the need to be realistic. The second half of the movie, on the other hand, represents a tough reality crashing down upon the carefree d...
Contrary to the reading that only the first half of the movie is a dream, some commentators believe that the entire movie is a dream. According to Justin Theroux, David Lynch made the movie by listening to his subconscious, and is therefore happy to let viewers come up with any interpretation they like; there is no right or wrong answer. This is th...
Rather than focusing on the ambitions of any one character, Mulholland Drivecan be read as a general treatise on the seductive allure of Hollywood. The shot of Los Angeles seen after Rita’s car crash has been seen to represent the endless opportunities that the city has to offer. RELATED: 10 Movies David Lynch Almost Directed The tragic ending of M...
Relationships are strange. Whether we’re actually in them or looking back on them, they’re not tangible things. A relationship is a bond between two people, and our mental conceptions of them can be wildly different than how they actually are. The first half of Mulholland Drivecan be seen as the idealized fantasy version of the relationship between...
Identity is a curious subject. People don’t really know who they are, and figuring out who we are is an ongoing and ultimately futile endeavor, because we’re constantly changing and the endless search for our identity is what shapes our identity. Underneath the explorations of the film industry and Lynch’s indifference toward big Hollywood studios,...
Some viewers have compared the structure of Mulholland Drive to a Möbius strip. Jean-Luc Godard famously said, “A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” But what if, in Mulholland Drive, that’s not the case? A Möbius strip has one continuous side, twisting forever, with no beginning or end. The same...
One popular theory about the duality of Betty and Diane is that Betty is Diane’s projection of a happier life. Diane is miserable, working a dead-end job as a waitress at Winkie’s. Betty is a bright-eyed aspiring actress who arrives in Hollywood, gets to live rent-free at her aunt’s awesome house, and lands a major role almost immediately. Betty’s ...
During a press conference at 2001’s New York Film Festival, where Mulholland Drivewas screened, David Lynch used the word “putrefaction” a number of times. The term literally refers to the rot and decay of corpses, but Lynch refers to the putrefaction of Hollywood. RELATED: 10 Best Performances In David Lynch Films In Mulholland Drive, Lynch posits...
The female relationships in Mulholland Drive – Betty and Rita, and Diane and Camilla, but particularly the former – have been compared to those found in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona and Robert Altman’s 3 Women. Betty and Rita have one of the most positive relationships in David Lynch’s filmography (often marked by turbulent, unhealthy relationships), w...
Although David Lynch insists that, unlike some of his other movies (e.g. Lost Highway), Mulholland Drive does have a coherent plotthat can be understood. But do we really want to understand it? What makes Mulholland Drivea masterpiece is that the only thing that makes sense about it is that it’s truly hypnotic. Viewers can watch it over and over ag...
Oct 19, 2021 · Twenty years after the release of the director’s gloriously specific and frustrating masterpiece, it stands as an unparalleled, idiosyncratic work of cinema. By Adam Nayman Oct 19, 2021, 8:17am ...
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Oct 12, 2001 · Mulholland Drive. 146 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2001. Roger Ebert. October 12, 2001. 4 min read. David Lynch has been working toward "Mulholland Drive" all of his career, and now that he's arrived there I forgive him "Wild at Heart" and even " Lost Highway." At last his experiment doesn't shatter the test tubes. The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in ...
