Lost Highway (1997)
This David Lynch epic — released in a down cycle in his career between the success of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive — tells a story of jealousy-driven murder from the perspective of the killer or killers, Fred and Pete, played by Bill Paxton and Balthazar Getty.
It’s all very intoxicatingly confusing — a recent episode of the outstanding You Must Remember This Podcast noted that Lynch was inspired in part by the O.J. Simpson case — and it’s hard to put your finger on what’s so sleazy about it.
But sleazy hallmarks abound: Fred plays saxophone, the official woodwind of sleazy erotic thrillers; Robert Blake is a central figure; it’s all driven by the death of an adult movie producer.
Anyway, we love it. A sleazy movie that uses sleaze exquisitely.
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