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jitterbug contest. Hot rods drag race on a mountain road. A violent car crash. A woman wanders the Hollywood Hills with a head injury. A man recounts a dream of meeting a monster
A starry-eyed dreamer arrives at LAX. An elderly couple with grotesque smiles smeared across their faces. I haven’t even gotten to the mysterious blue box with the triangle Mulholland Drive David Lynch’s failed TV pilot turned CRITERION COLLECTION cinematic masterpiece. Logic need not apply. wrote Mulholland Drive after the street winding through and Mark Frost found certain fame with Twin Peaks. But Twin Peaks grabbed viewers’ attention in 1990 when network television was willing to take a few risks. Not so by the end of the decade. The suits running ABC had problems with the character of smoking. Lord knows what notes they had about the incompetent hit when he means to pop one. But what Lynch lost in episodic Mulholland Drive gained. It’s hard imagining someand silly playing network TV. The nudity would certainly have to go.
What’s in the box?
Down the winding roads of ‘Mulholland Drive’
by Michael J. Casey ON THE BILL: Mulholland Drive. 10 p.m. -
BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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Lynch is the other half. There’s something beautifully Brechtian about his movies: He never wants you to forget you are watching an aryou don’t want to live without. It’s hard to locate Lynch’s high-water mark. He’s been working somewhat infrequently since the ’70s and with many peaks along the
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And on 4K UHD Blu-ray from The Criterion Collec-
a renewed appreciation thanks to digital 4K restorations playing art house theaters and making their way to home video. Take a trip back to Mulholland Drive Theater at 10 p.m. on Aug. 12 or at home via Criterion’s 4K UHD Bluray set. Email: editorial@boulderweekly.com
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