Mulholland Dr.

David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a ...more

Modern noir is director David Lynch's specialty, as brilliantly evidenced in Mulholland Drive, a non-linear, stylish, and often times confounding picture that seeps suspense from every cinematic pore. It obliterates traditional narrative structure, choosing instead to twist around like the road it takes its title from. The film borrows heavily from movies of the '40s and '50s, operating mainly under the cover of night with many inserts of silhouetted shots. Mulholland Drive begins with a ...more

Early on in Mulholland Drive, a man sits in a Hollywood greasy spoon, relating a dream to a friend sitting across from him. The dream, he explains, took place in the same diner, only in the dream some unspeakably evil presence lived behind it. He's come here now to prove to himself that the dream wasn't real. After paying the check, he and his companion venture outside and walk around to the back of the building. Sure enough, an almost ludicrously hideous face appears from behind a cinder black ...more