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Release Date. France. May 16, 2001 (Cannes Film Festival) Canada. September 8, 2001 (Toronto International Film Festival) Philippines. September 12, 2001. Canada. September 23, 2001 (Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival)
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.
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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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- David Lynch
- 2001-10-19
- Mulholland Dr. - The TV Pilot and Planning as A TV Series
- Takeover by Studio Canal - Completion to Feature Film
- Theatrical Version vs. TV Pilot - The Differences
- Comparison
Instead of usually hundreds of thousands of dollars for a successful pitch, ABC provided four and a half million dollars. Disney's Touchstone later contributed another two and a half million. With his commitment, however, Lynch had to reluctantly accept to shoot additional footage. As with Twin Peaks before, a longer version with a completed ending...
Lynch wrote a fitting ending and converted the television version into a feature film. He added back finished material that had to give way from his first cut. The scenes around Club Silencio, for example, marked the end of the originally planned international feature film version. Also, the breakfast with Dan and Herb at Winkie's and the walk to t...
Both versions are aimed at a different audience. This is especially clear in the TV version: some characters and their plots were expanded or introduced to be expanded later in further episodes. Worth mentioning here is the police work of the two Detectives McKnight and Domgaard, or the proceedings surrounding Mr. Roque and the Castigliane brothers...
6 new scenes = 11 minutes and 56.8 seconds(+ 48 minutes and 45 seconds starting at 1:38:02)31 extended scenes = 9 minutes and 14.5 seconds7 longer shots = 25.8 seconds- Meredith Danko
- It started as a TV pilot. Director David Lynch actually got the name for the film when he was planning to create a different pilot, a Twin Peaks spinoff with Mark Frost.
- Many of the actors were lesser known because it was going to be a TV show. Had Lynch been planning to make a film for the entire process, Naomi Watts may have not even been considered for the lead role.
- Most of the ideas for the film came from Lynch’s transcendental meditation. Lynch practices transcendental meditation, which he describes as a way to “expand consciousness.”
- Lynch didn’t audition any actors. Before being cast, Naomi Watts merely had a 30 minute conversation with Lynch, which is similar to how all of the leads were chosen.
Israel: March 7th, 2002. Brazil: April 16, 2002. Mulholland Drive is a complex tale of suspense, set in the unreal universe of Los Angeles. Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems. In the film, Writer/Director David Lynch explores the city's schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty ...
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Mulholland Drive - The TV Show Pilot A few years ago I came a across as story about how Lynch originally pitched Mulholland Drive as a series. The 88 minute pilot was later re-edited with additional footage and became the movie we have today.
