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Lost Highway

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Directed by David Lynch

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell. From TMDB

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Lost Highway is a 1997 drama thriller mystery film, directed by David Lynch, starring Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman and Balthazar Getty.

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2026

    Lost Highway (1997) 🎬🖤 Directed by David Lynch

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  • FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2025

    This spring, FANGORIA pays tribute to one of the most visionary filmmakers of all time - David Lynch. Though Lynch’s film work spanned (and defied) genres, his dark visions over the years – from ERASERHEAD to BLUE VELVET to LOST HIGHWAY and beyond – have left an indelible imprint on our readers.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2024

    You have been visited by Jazz Bill Pullman from the classic David Lynch film Lost Highway, he’s playing his saxophone so we don’t have to read this bullshit

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  • Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    I'm baffled by Roger Ebert's love for Mulholland Drive. He gave it 4 stars and said he "forgave" Lynch for Lost Highway and Wild At Heart because they were necessary to make Mulholland Drive I mean it's a good movie but I don't know what separated it to Ebert from those, other than hot girls kissing

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    One thing about David Lynch that might be completely unique in a film career is that there’s about five of his movies where if you told me it’s his Absolute best film or Absolute worst film I couldn’t really disagree either way. I love Lost Highway but it’s a song you either vibe with or don’t.

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  • jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

    Finally watched Lost Highway for the first time, a movie whose moral seems to be "don't bang late 90s Patricia Arquette if you want to live a peaceful life" and idk maybe peace is overrated

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  • Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    I wrote about LOST HIGHWAY for my horror column. This one is different from his later films. We aren't meant to identify or empathize with anyone. We are meant to observe. It's closer to his work as a painter where rationalization is elusive & the world is cruel. www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

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  • 伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2025

    By the way, when I watched Lost Highway for the first time, as David Bowie said it in the ending song, the film was driving me crazy. lol

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  • Ana @motherslug.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2025

    Lost Highway is my favorite Lynch film for a number of reasons but one of them is that it basically opens with blistering free jazz from the Bill Pullman Quartet.

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  • Horror Facts @horrorfacts.comBluesky · May 15, 2025

    Lost Highway (1997) isn’t a movie—it’s a psychic wound. Lynch’s meanest, most hallucinatory nightmare, where Bill Pullman morphs into Balthazar Getty & Robert Blake haunts your soul. A sax-scored descent into madness that will break you. 🔥📞 #DavidLynch #Horror #HorrorSky #HorrorMovies #LostHighway

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  • Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    I wrote for @southwestreview.bsky.social about how the 1997 reincarnoir LOST HIGHWAY is THE key film of David Lynch's career, how its bloodjaculate phantasmagoria serves as a summation of the Lynch films that came before it and as a guide to the works that would come after. Give it a read:

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Lost Highway (1997) By David Seidman

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  • Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    When I went on @blankcheck.bsky.social recently to talk about The Straight Story (a film I was honored to be asked on for), the most startling thing I realized is that Lynch made it right in between Lost Highway & Mulholland Drive. open.spotify.com/episode/0kiJ...

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  • Empty Movement @empty-movement.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    "...during production (of Utena), I watched the movie "Lost Highway" several times with people close to me." (web.archive.org/web/20100818...) NO FUICKING SHIT KUNIHIKO IKUHARA YOU MOTHER FDUCK

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  • Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    I love that David Lynch owned the Lost Highway house and then made a movie in it that communicates concepts such as “damn why did I buy such a spooky house”

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  • Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    I saw a preview of the TWIN PEAKS pilot at the Museum of Broadcasting in Mar, 1990 as an NYU film school student and it changed my life. WILD AT HEART, FWWM, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE were all opening night watches, but TWIN PEAKS is in my soul. Thank you, David Lynch.

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  • Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2026

    My mom (idly scrolling on her phone): "Hm, have you heard of this film, Lost Highway?" Me:

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  • Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.comBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    dug up the one interview I got to do on Lost Highway, back in 2018: filmobsessive.com/film/film-ne...

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  • Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2025

    Celebrated David Lynch yesterday by showing Kate Lost Highway, which I hadn't seen in ages. Perfect movie for going long stretches without seeing so the mystery and horror of it all gets to hit again like it's the first time.

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  • Amber T @amber-tee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 1/30 LOST HIGHWAY (1997) dir. David Lynch

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  • Lawrence Sonntag @sirlarr.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    Welp I finally saw Lost Highway. Without fail every time I watch a David Lynch anything, I finish it thinking "well that was like half a movie with lots of dead air and a few neat ideas." Then I just keep thinking and thinking until I attach my own meaning and end up loving it.

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  • Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    Sometimes you watch a film everyone has been talking about & think ‘what took me so long!?’ Thus it was tonight with Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY. Neo noir tour de force. Despite being nearly 30 years old, also the perfect film to watch as we witness a chaotic schizophrenic America grapple with its demons

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  • matt lynch @colonelmortimer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    Had not until now checked out the Criterion LOST HIGHWAY 4K. I dunno who all remembers how terrible this movie looked on home video for basically 20 plus years. This transfer is a revelation, some real justice for a truly beautifully black film.

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  • Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    For a long time, Lost Highway was my favourite film. It's still in my top ten: this strange terrifying assault on basic concepts. Earlier today I'd booked to watch it in the Prince Charles. A final uncanny bit of Lynchian synchronicity.

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Lost Highway (1997) By Bruno Vergauwen

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  • Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    One of the many versions of the Armagosa Motel and Opera House I’ve made - this one a split toned fb version. Sort of made famous for a brief moment as it appears in Lost Highway a brilliant David Lynch film. @ilfordphoto.com #FP4 and Fuji GW690II

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  • John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.comBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    Lost Highway is Lynch’s Noir film with its femme fatales and entrapped enfeebled men; doubles, demons and double-crosses. Lynch-like Bunuel-understands the surreal possibilities of the most basic temporal effects such as slow motion or reversing the film. He’s an elementalist. Time, darkness, fire.

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  • Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    A reminder that David Lynch is why we have Trent Reznor, Academy Award-winning composer, and when Reznor worked on this first film (Lost Highway!) he literally had to tell Lynch "I can't do it with while you're watching."

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  • Suzanne Lapointe @suemetal.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    Lost Highway (1997) Somewhere in Iceland I saw the movie a few times, once at the Royal Albert Hall. Barry Adamson (who worked on the soundtrack) did a Q&A after about the film, the music and working with D. Lynch. ❤️🎬🎹 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #EastCoastKin #Iceland

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  • Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2025

    I saw Lost Highway last night. I cannot imagine how powerful a talisman the film’s soundtrack would have been for me in 1997 had I accidentally purchased it from the used bin at Dearborn Music. boxd.it/9QwA1N

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  • Nate @stanleycup3533.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2025

    Lost Highway - David Lynch. A fantastic film with an absolutely fantastic soundtrack! Another great UHD 4K release from Criterion. #Nowplaying #davidlynch #PhysicalMedia

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  • Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    (sincerely) this is a perfect Lost Highway poster that gives you a great idea of how the movie will look and feel, and what it is about

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Lost Highway: great movie!

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  • Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    The most fucked up thing about Lost Highway is Lynch cast Gary Busey and he was the most normal character in the movie.

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  • C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    Introducing my 17yo film-buff son to the world of David Lynch tonight, starting with Lost Highway. Here we go…

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  • Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    Released 29 years ago this weekend, 1997’s reincarnoir LOST HIGHWAY is *THE* key film of David Lynch's career—its bloodjaculate phantasmagoria is a summation of all Lynch films that came before and a roadmap to all that came after. I wrote about why for @southwestreview.bsky.social:

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  • David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), while 100% being a Stanley Kubrick film, has always felt like a missing David Lynch work between "Lost Highway" (1997) and "Mulholland Drive" (2001). Might be fun to explore in a discussion.

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  • Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD screens this Friday at 3pm, presented in 35MM! One Show Only - Introduced by producer/editor/writer Mary Sweeney (MULHOLLAND DRIVE, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY) Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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  • Cult MTL @cultmtl.comBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    David Lynch’s Lost Highway screening tonight in Montreal

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  • Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    The extremely hard-to-see Richard Pryor movie MOVING showed up on Tubi. Not a masterpiece by any means, but easily the best thing he was in post-JOJO DANCER (LOST HIGHWAY notwithstanding).

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  • Fact50 @fact50.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    #MusicChallenge #Howl-A-Ween Day 15: TV/Movie Horror Theme Not sure if this is considered a typical true sense horror movie but… David Bowie - I’m Deranged (Lost Highway, 1997) youtu.be/JxRHXmShSNg?...

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  • ChiefGordonCole @chiefgordoncole.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    Tonight I saw Lost Highway in a sold out theatre. That movie on a big screen is sooooooo intense. Even though I know the film by heart, I'm speechless once again. Pure David Lynch magic 💙🔥💙

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  • Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    Henry Rollins had back to back roles in Johnny Mnemonic, Heat, and Lost Highway. His next movie role was Jack Frost. I've nothing to add to that I just think more people should know.

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  • John Thorne @thornewip.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    Too bad this story is getting such a negative spin (but that's what gets you clicks). The *real* story is that Nolan selected Lost Highway and was ultimately complimentary to the film and to Lynch. A difficult fim doesn't mean a bad film.

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  • Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2025

    Rewatched Lynch’s Lost Highway last night, and it was a Very Different Movie than the last couple times I watched it. It’s a trip how much the audience brings to even “passive” entertainment.

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  • I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES @imgarysuarez.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    Perhaps the most important movie of my teens was Lost Highway, not merely my gateway to arthouse cinema but the first film that reflected the kind of world I’d been trying to dream up. R.I.P. David Lynch.

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  • Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    I've always struggled a little bit with LOST HIGHWAY because it's such a vicious movie and has such a bad energy. It's like if Fire Walk with Me was from Leland's perspective. It's tough, but it's a key text to understanding Lynch's art. Sample also here: letterboxd.com/catelyn/film...

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  • John Lees @johnlees.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    I’m marking David Lynch’s birthday by revisiting Lost Highway. I forgot that this has some of the most viscerally frightening moments ever put on film.

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  • 550am @handle.invalidBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Tonight’s double feature: Nine Inch Nails Broken short film (1993) Lost Highway (1997)

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  • LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Now watching my favorite film Lost Highway in honor of the master David Lynch

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  • They/Them Squall Leonhart @biggnomeyt.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    People do this with every David Lynch film but I have no clue how anyone could say Lost Highway is hard to understand when it beats you over the head with how Seifer counters the Zantetsuken and destroys Odin. The Zantetsuken is knocked from Odin's hand, and a mysterious hand reaches out of a dimens

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  • Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    "When finally given the opportunity to make another film in the late 90s, Lynch had the chance to win critics and audiences back with something more palatable, safely reinstating himself into the pop cultural consciousness. "Instead, he made LOST HIGHWAY." southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

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  • Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    PART 7 Cole whistles the intro to Rammstein’s Engel before he goes to see Mr C in prison. Calls to mind Lost Highway, a movie where a man shapeshifts into another man after being incarcerated. I’m pretty sure Lost Highway, Inland Empire, Twin Peaks, and possibly Mulholland Drive share a universe

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  • Buma @buma.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    Day 1: Movie Outro/Credits #MusicChallenge #EcksteinsMonthOfMusic Lost Highway (1997) David Bowie - I'm Deranged youtu.be/aepBpZ3kXek?...

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    You know for a movie that's as flat out Evil (complentary) as LOST HIGHWAY is, it's funny as hell. Like that whole tailgater scene. Suddenly this surreal horror noir becomes the most foul mouthed Safe Driving PSA you've ever seen.

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  • William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    I’m old enough to remember when the ad campaign for David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY advertised “Two Thumbs Down!” from Siskel & Ebert as “two more reasons to see a film by David Lynch.” It was a bold move. I respected it. It didn’t work then either.

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  • THE Vinz Vektor - EN Vtuber @posindustries.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    If you really want to fuck with Disney execs, you should buy Nine Inch Nails' soundtrack for Tron: Ares but under no circumstances pay to see the movie. Pay 'em a visit from the vengeful ghost of Lost Highway.

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  • Billy Jarrett @billyjarrettugh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2025

    Real cool that Richard Pryor’s final film role was in Lost Highway

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Feb 20, 2024

    run DO NOT WALK to this film, which is like Lucio Fulci's Lost Highway

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  • HunkyKubrick/♑♄ ZoSo/🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #334 Encompassing Lynch's penchant for surrealism, nightmarish dreamscapes, psychic fugues - Lost Highway bristles with a malevolent energy depicting LA's dark underbelly... #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

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