Lost Highway feat. Jonah Koslofsky
Added 2021-11-26 04:43:38 +0000 UTCWe're joined by film writer and filmmaker Jonah Koslofsky to go long on the 1997 neo-noir mindbender Lost Highway, a turning point in the career of David Lynch which would lay the stylistic groundwork that would come to define his output through the next 20+ years. We discuss the filmmaker's singular (and unexpectedly humanist) aesthetic, the futile endeavor of talking about David Lynch literally, and how the director's ideological influences propagate art that antagonizes the thresholds of the neoliberal imaginary.
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Read Jonah's Philip Seymour Hoffman column 'P.S.H. I Love You' at The Spool
Read Nick Pinkerton's 'Lost Highway' piece "Switchback" on Substack (Subscriber read only)
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Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish.
Comments
I saw this for the first time last month and it's rare that a movie just rakes me over the coals like this one did. I'm glad you all agree it's top 3 Lynch, because it I think it's my favorite of his work. Loved hearing you guys shoot the shit and grapple this one.
Kyle Kennerson
2022-08-16 15:07:11 +0000 UTCI saw Lost Highways in its entirety as a film school student at age...oh I dunno, let's say 25-32 because I can't remember. BUT! - before that - at age 15 or so - I have a vivid memory of watching a recurring teaser of the movie on the - at the time cutting edge - pure movie channels available in Sweden (that required you to install a dish antenna on your roof). As I remember it, it was mostly just that short clip from the movie of a front-mounted camera recording a car speeding along a road with the headlights being the only source of light. ...though I liked the movie in its entirety once I actually saw it - and the Robert Blake's "Mystery Man"/I'm at your house, right now, call me" scene is good enough to be its own short horror film - the memory of watching that odd little context-less trailer over and over as a teen is probably more accurate to the feeling that the movie wanted to invoke, than me actually watching the full movie, many years later (and in an academic setting, to make it even worse).
Jesper Ohlsson
2022-06-29 00:11:41 +0000 UTC
