#4 Mulholland Drive-The Greatest Films by Carlos de Mello

Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch 2001 with Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Justin Theroux - Cinematography by Peter Deming. David Lynch's epic nightmare of Hollywood, which began life as an open-ended television series (like his "Twin Peaks") and evolved into a movie, may be his masterpiece. A leisurely film noir that turns into a surreal montage, it is a portrait of Hollywood filtered through the director's personal iconography, which in many ways is more early 1960's than contemporary in mood. The story traces the loss of innocence of a dewy Hollywood hopeful (Naomi Watts) who befriends a mysterious amnesia victim (Laura Harring) searching for her identity. Their journey figuratively plunges them through the looking glass into a phantasmagoric dream world.I've heard people say that this film is weird, awful and full of itself. I've heard that Betty is real, Diane is fake or Diane is heard dying before the opening credits or is dreaming. Personally, I think Diane is real and Betty is all but a dream and the storylines that are seen in the beginning are exactly the way you dream: in bits and disjointed fragments that seldom make sense. That's what so wonderful about this movie. Everyone always says that they hate it when they can predict what's going to happen next in a movie. Here is one movie where that ain't happening. The best way to watch it would be all alone, in the dark, late at night, with a drink in your hand, letting every detail and nuance of the film unspool in your head like a great novel. You won't be disappointed.

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YouTube | December 29, 2007

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