The twisted new-age film noir Lost Highway was released 10 years ago today. The movie, directed and co-written by David Lynch, tracks an often intriguingly hard-to-follow plotline that involves the dual identities of Robert Blake and Patricia Arquette, the mysterious motive behind two murders and the Lost Highway Hotel. Lynch pushes and pulls his audience through a maze of characters and subplots, providing countless questions but not enough answers. The director has said he enjoys a good mystery, but once solved, those mysteries become disappointments. So he decided to leave the film open-ended. The decision didn’t seem to work in his favor at first, as critics panned the movie for being unintelligible and only visually cultivated. But some say that Lost Highway led to his triumphant return to glory with 2001’s Mulholland Drive.
Collaborations: It is somehow fitting that Lost Highway marked the last time actor Jack Nance played on-screen. Previously, Nance had worked with Lynch on Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and the television series “Twin Peaks.â€
