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Twin Peaks/David Lynch Festival
Lost Highway
July 28, 2006
7:30 pm
MOHAI


Twin Peaks/David Lynch Festival

Please note this event will be held at Museum of History and Industry in the McEachern Auditorium.

This year's festival spotlights Lost Highway (1997), which has become one of Lynch's most respected and discussed films. Co-written with Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), Lost Highway is steeped in the burnt orange sunset mood of Los Angeles film noir. A jazz musician (Bill Pullman) suspects that his wife (Patricia Arquette) is cheating on him. The tension in their Hollywood Hills home amps up when videotapes are left on the couple's doorstep. The tapes seem to be shot by some invisible house invader, and the last one in the series shows Pullman sitting next to Arquette's murdered body. Whether or not he has killed her, Pullman is sentenced to die, but one day, another, younger man (Balthazar Getty) is found in Pullman's jail cell. Where did Pullman go?

Lynch loves mysteries, and as we follow the doings of Getty after he's released, the director uses his beautiful and stunning metaphysical storytelling to probe questions of crime and innocence, the persistence of personality after death and the multiple selves within us all.

With Natasha Gregson Wagner, Richard Pryor, Jack Nance, Henry Rollins, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Marilyn Manson.

As usual, there will be rare film/video supplements and special festival guests in attendance. Three-hour program.

Members: $6
Adults: $8

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