Why isn’t Muholland Drive a DL fav?

It's my fav. I must have seen this movie 50 times.

I remember reading an interview with Naomi Watts where she was talking about struggling as an actress feeling suicidal before she got the part in Mulholland Drive. I think that's why her performance is so amazing is this movie because she has lived the roll of Diane.

Easily in my top 5. Love this film.

Wow, that’s so intense to hear about that interview. Naomi should’ve won an oscar for her performance...and she wasn’t even nominated

It is not a good film. It is clearly the first episode of a tv pilot with a seasons worth of mysteries introduced, and then a half-assed tacked on ending.

How can it be a fav when its hard to know what the fuck is going on?

I was/am a David Lynch fan, but it just bored me. Lots of people love so I'm sure there's something to it, but I'm not really interested in making the effort to find a way to appreciate it. You never had to do that with his earlier movies.

I don't think Lost Highway worked.

But Mulholland Drive worked perfectly

Speaking of Lost Highway ...

Personal favorite movie of mine too. I like that it's hard to decipher and make sense out of it. I even got to live next to the apartment complex where Coco is the landlord. It's on N. Sycamore Avenue, near Rosewood Avenue, L.A.

This is what it is to be a gay man’s psyche in 3 minutes 33 seconds

It’s a me fave...top three along with 2001 and Melancholia. Though I am totally creeped out by David Lynch these days, given his Trump support and his foundation dedicated to a cult.

Yes. Love this film.

Starring a beauty queen!

I love it so much. I am one block from Club Silencio as I type this (the exterior shots are one block to my right and the interior shots are one block to my left).

You have excellent taste, R12.

Me too! R1

I watched it more then 50 times. I was, and still am, hooked and fascinated by it. A few years ago I dig deep into this website that is exclusively about the film, and the possibilities of interpretation. Its made by hardcore, devoted fans, with a myriad of theories, texts and images. If anyone interested have look .

Love this film too. Usually don't care enough to figure out cryptic movie themes but this one I researched and read about until I could make sense of it.

I think it's wonderful. It has a tone and vibe all its own. It really is one of the best dreamlike movies of all time. It plays out a lot like a real, honest to God dream, complete with strange side stories and tonal shifts.

Winkie’s diner was shot in a little diner called Caesars in...El Segundo? I can’t remember the exact location. Anyway, the decor was just like the movie, jewel tone green and red with wooden accemts, quite beautiful for what it was. I was surprised to see that the rear of the buildimg was the same sunken parkong lot with the staircase. I figured that they’d cobbled together different locations to come up with that set, but it was all there. The wall behind which the monster dwelled was shorter than in the movie, but otherwise everything was identical.

We went back a year ot two ago. The building still stood but was empty. I think it’s demolished now.

We’ve been to many film shooting sites in LA, accidentally or on purpose, but that was my favorite.

Laura Harring made me hard.

Naomi Watts cemented her place as one of our greatest actress in just one movie.

It has one of my favorite love scenes

Of all Lynch's movies, Mulholland Dr has the most coherent narrative and the deepest realization of character, which is why I love it.

Hint to those who haven't had their aha moments yet: Betty is an unreliable narrator. The fact that she's front and center the majority of the movie is the most confusing thing about it. The movie is about Diane Selwyn and her guilty conscience.

Lynch has a cult following here, OP. You should've read those Twin Peak Return threads. Some of his fans think everything he does is brilliant. I find his recent stuff to be a hodgepodge of half-baked ideas while having nothing but utter contempt for his audience.

Mulholland Drive was the beginning of that phase of his career.

Hey R10 -- I lived on N Sycamore near Rosewood as well, in one of those 4-apartment houses.

Thanks, R17

R19, you got it. So often dream sequences are enjoyable but not really dreamlike. In MD there is that mix of "reality " and disjunction that is so characteristic of dreams.

I went to see it having heard some complaints about it and left stunned. Just this moment it occurred to me that one do a comparison of it to "Vertigo"--the two parts, the dreamlike element, the two Bettys.

I recently watched this movie again. It comes across really dated and hokey.

The ending still doesn’t make any sense

R20 the restaurant was located in Gardena. 1021 West El Segundo Ave to be exact. I wonder what kind of food they served.

Apple Brown Betty and Chicken Pot Pie

OP, the film's been discussed here multiple times but had the lezzies been gay men we'd probably love it way more. I've seen the film once or twice and that was enough. It was extremely depressing, especially because I've suffered from depression since my teens and it feels way too real and raw in the end when Naomi Watts "wakes up". The film is one of the best depictions of mental illness I've seen, and as such it's very powerful. However I had trouble understanding the movie, and obviously I wasn't the only one. I had to go online to check what really happened after watching it. I'm not sure that's necessarily a good thing but then again since most films are linear and easy to understand it's nice at times to see something different as well.

My favorite Lynch film is probably Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. In my eyes that's probably his strongest work. I used to love Wild at Heart, and obviously Blue Velvet but in Fire Walk with Me his storytelling and technical abilities had evolved and were possibly at their peak. The movie was slightly cryptic but still made sense for a casual viewer unlike Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive which started getting just too weird. I've yet to watch Inland Empire. I started watching it but after 30 minutes I had to stop.

BTW, Lynch is not really a Trump supporter. It was a misunderstanding.

I do wonder if a movie could be made like this, but with two men instead. That'd be fascinating, but I doubt anyone would back it.

R32 if it were 2 men, who would you want it to be? They would both have to be young and handsome.

Love this movie. Making sense of it isn’t the point. For me, anyway.

Actually, aside from Wild At Heart and Lost Highway, I love everything Lynch has done. He’s a real artist.

LA, honey. David Lynch, in that movie, GETS LA--for all time. "Sunset Boulevard," "Mulholland Drive"--those two addresses, those two movies.

R33, Armie and Timmy, of course

Hated it. After the huge letdown of the original Twin Peaks series, I've lost faith that Lynch actually has a point to make. I'm not deciphering any more of his bullshit.

Naomi Watts was great, especially the audition scene with Chad Everett. Laura Harring was gorgeous, thought she would have been more successful after this film. Yes, still don't get the ending.

It is a DL fave. You must have missed the threads about it.

I love Mulholland Drive. I finally watched the original Twin Peaks series last year and was bored and disappointed. I see how Lynch was working out interesting ideas that came together in Mulholland, but Twink Peaks definitely does not live up to its fabled reputation for me. Maybe had I been aware of it when it was novel, it might have had a greater impact. Alas. (I was a child, so that wasn’t going to happen.)

[Quote] Laura Harring was gorgeous, thought she would have been more successful after this film.

I'll always love her for this movie lol

R38 that's a breathtaking scene, especially in contrast to the earlier version she does when rehearsing with Harring. I wonder if the two different versions--one of them superficial, the other riveting-- are making a comment about what is real and what is false, the way the film plays with that.

i'm obsessed by this movie. and once you read some good film analysis you can see the plot is quite clear, but told in that unique Lynch way. A movie for the ages.

It’s above the intellectual and emotional IQ levels of most basic bitches who watch things like Kardashians.

I really do love this movie. I think it's Lynch's best work. This and Blue Velvet were my first introductions to Lynch and they'll always be my favorites.

I really despised his last season of Twin Peaks. Honestly, what the fuck was that? I get that he's artsy and all, but we don't need a 5 minute shot of a guy cleaning up a bar at the end of the night? That's not art. It's empty and boring. I really feel like he just called back all the old actors and they improvised everything.