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Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/13/24 Full Review Isa B Mulholland Dr. may very well be the greatest film of the 21st century thus far. It is a mastercraft of filmmaking. It is a ...
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- Mulholland Drive Explained - What Is The Dream Theory?
- Which Clues Reveal It’S A Dream?
- What Do Betty and Rita represent?
- What Happens in The Car Crash?
- Who Is The Hitman?
- Who Is The ‘Monster’ Behind The Winkie’S?
- Who Are The Old Couple - and What Do They Mean in The Film?
- What Happens at The End of Mulholland Drive?
According to one of the most common - and surprisingly coherent - interpretations of Lynch’s film, the first part of Mulholland Drive is best understood as a dream sequence, in which elements of the ‘real’ story are explored in heightened or distorted ways, until the protagonist Diane wakes up. It’s a clever play, too, on Hollywood as a dream facto...
Just before the film’s opening credits, we see a bed with red sheets, arguably our first hint that what is about to unfold is happening in the dream world; the same bed and sheets are later seen when Betty and Rita visit the apartment with the dead body, and then again when Betty / Diane wakes from the dream. The character Louise, the next-door nei...
One way of looking at Mulholland Drive’s first section is as a comment on Hollywood movie-making, and how the industry can flatten stories and characters into easily digestible tropes and characters as a way of making sense of the world. It follows then, that both Betty and Rita, the dream versions of the more fraught and complicated Diane and Cami...
We first meet Rita when she is sitting in the back of a limo, and is surprised when the driver pulls over at an unexpected stop along Mulholland Drive, up in the Hollywood Hills. A man in the front of the car pulls out a gun, and it seems that he is about to shoot her - perhaps foreshadowing Camilla’s actual death offscreen at the hands of the hitm...
In the film’s first section, Joe (Mark Pellegrino) is a clumsy hitman who messes up an attempt to steal a little black book, killing not only the target but a woman in the next room, and the janitor who witnesses the murder, before triggering the fire alarm. It’s a darkly comic sequence where the slapstick humour sits unsettlingly alongside the spa...
Towards the beginning of the film, a man named Dan, who is sitting in a Winkie’s diner, explains that he had a nightmare where he saw a terrifying figure behind the same restaurant. When he checks around the back, the strange man appears, causing him (and probably viewers of a nervous disposition) to collapse in fright. The same man appears again t...
We first meet Betty when she emerges from LAX airport, accompanied by an old lady, who we soon learn is named Irene, and an elderly man. The pair reiterate how nice it was to travel with Betty, and wish her well in her attempts to crack Hollywood, promising to watch out for her “on the big screen”. It seems like a sweet farewell, but this is a Lync...
Cornered by the vision of the old couple, Diane reaches into a drawer to pull out a gun, then shoots herself. After Diane dies and everything fades to black, we see her and Camilla’s - or should that be Betty and Rita’s? - smiling faces superimposed over the bright lights of Los Angeles. It’s reminiscent of an old-fashioned movie poster, as if Dian...
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Jul 18, 2022 · Mulholland Drive, in particular, has so many of these due to its immense popularity. The film ended up gaining Lynch a Best Director nomination at the 74 th Academy Awards in 2002. To me, though, these video essays appear superfluous. At its core, the film is not terribly difficult to comprehend.
Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems. In the unreal universe of Los Angeles, the city bares its schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty and depravity. A woman is left with amnesia following a car accident. An aspiring young actress finds her staying in her aunt's home.
Mulholland Drive is an absorbing tour de force by one of today's most daring filmmakers at the top of his form. Full Review | Jul 11, 2023 Todd Lothery News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Apr 8, 2022 · The film earned the auteur Best Director at Cannes and an Oscar nomination (also for directing). In 2016, Mulholland Drive topped a BBC poll of the greatest films of the 21st century so far. Best Film of the Decade Film Comment, Reverse Shot, IndieWire, Los Angeles Film Critics Association. A Double Doozy of David Lynch!
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To date, half of David Lynch's 10-picture filmography has been added to The Criterion Collection. In addition to "Mulholland Drive," there's "Eraserhead," "Blue Velvet," "The Elephant Man," and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me." However, "Mulholland Drive" is the first to earn the distinction of being released in Criterion's new 4K Ultra HD format.
