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  MULHOLLAND DRIVE - CANADIAN DVD
Mulholland Drive (and Lynch's Lost Highway, to a lesser extent), then, is the deconstruction of sense, a literal gapping of the divide between dream and not-dream, fantasy and not-fantasy, and signs and their alleged signifiers.
Mulholland Drive is a horror film, a satire, a treatise on sexual politics and the male gaze, a fl slapstick comedy, and a post-modernist treatise on the slipperiness of truth and identity.
Mulholland Drive works in the space between the screen and the audience--a rare work that demands to be viewed through a different level of consciousness and yet requiring an active participation that it wilfully and instantly defies.
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 Amazon.com: Mulholland Drive: Video: Naomi Watts,Ann Miller,Laura Harring,Dan Hedaya,Justin Theroux,Brent ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mulholland Drive is a brilliantly structured film even though the structure is unconventional.
Mullholland Drive is a very disturbing portrait of the inner world of a woman about to commit suicide and we learn about her life and what led her to murder and suicide through the dream imagery of the first two hours.
Mulholland Drive is a challenging and haunting film that I believe will only rise in stature as the years go by.
www.amazon.com /Mulholland-Drive-Naomi-Watts/dp/B000060MY6   (2984 words)

  
 AN ANALYSIS OF MULHOLLAND DRIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And in some sense, the accident that produced Mulholland Drive was eerily similar to the accident in the one of the opening sequences of the film, where a beautiful vehicle with a beautiful passenger is in a terrible crash during an assassination attempt.
Mulholland Drive is the cinematic vehicle that would not die even after the terrible accident it suffered along with other attempts to kill the project.
Roque is a nod to the inhabitants of Munchkinland.
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 The City of Absurdity: David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is being targeted for a fall release through Universal's specialty distribution unit Universal Focus.
"Mulholland Drive" was originally developed as a two-hour, $8 million pilot for a TV series in 1999, but was rejected by ABC and was reconceived by Lynch as a feature film with $7 million in French funding from CanalPlus.
Mulholland Drive is a road in Los Angeles that goes along the crest of the Santa Monica mountains and it's a beautiful road in the daytime but also a beautiful road at night giving vistas out to the valley on one side and Hollywood on the other.
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 Mulholland Drive: A Philosophical Analysis
Mulholland Drive combines elements of suspense, temporal trickery and insight into the human condition to create what is arguably one of the most accomplished works of David Lynch's directorial career.
Mulholland Drive effectively provides both a commentary on the nature of subjective reality as it's depicted on film, and as we experience it in real life.
Mulholland Drive is clearly a film with designs on the philosophical zeitgeist of the new millennium.
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 AboutFilm.com - Mulholland Drive (2001)
The opening title, a shot of a Mulholland Drive street sign lit by flickering headlights, is one of the most unsettling and memorable images in the film.
The similarity between Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks may not be entirely coincidental, as Mulholland Drive was originally conceived as a TV pilot, which does not require a denouement.
Mulholland Drive is a brainteaser either for people much smarter than me who can figure it all out, or for people who are easily amused by striking imagery and oddball characters.
www.aboutfilm.com /movies/m/mulhollanddrive.htm   (879 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive was rejected by ABC, the network that had commissioned it.
Mulholland was rescued by an infusion of cash from French financiers Studio Canal Plus, allowing Lynch to shoot enough additional footage to expand the episode into a feature film.
Mulholland Drive is "predictable." Though we can probably guess, in a very general way, that Lynch will take us on a journey from seeming normality to full-blown phantasmagoria, the detours along the way are constantly surprising and outrageously entertaining.
www.culturevulture.net /Movies/MulhollandDrive.htm   (875 words)

  
 The Modern Word - "Mulholland Drive" Review
Mulholland Drive is a puzzle-box of a movie, one that presents hallucination and reality as equal and indistinguishable partners.
Yet another example of both Mulholland Drive's nested illusions and Lynch's cinematic self-referentiality.) The appearances of these conspirators strike a jarring balance between the sinister and the comical, pushing the fantasy to the edge of surrealism as they exert their pressure on the director.
Lynch could be suggesting that Mulholland Drive should be first allowed to settle in the subconscious world of dreams, where much of the film seems to operate, and where it finds a sublime kind of harmony.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Mulholland Drive (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
David Lynch has been working toward "Mulholland Drive" all of his career, and now that he's arrived there I forgive him "Wild at Heart" and even "Lost Highway." At last his experiment doesn't shatter the test tubes.
She crawls out of the wreckage on Mulholland Drive, stumbles down the hill, and is taking a shower in the aunt's apartment when Betty arrives.
"Mulholland Drive" is said to have been assembled from scenes that he shot for a 1999 ABC television pilot, but no network would air (or understand) this material, and Lynch knew it.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011012/REVIEWS/110120304/1023   (706 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is a compelling and confusing movie, one which garnered Lynch (The Straight Story, Lost Highway) the Best Director Award (shared with Joel and Ethan Coen) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
This is especially true as Mulholland Drive nears its conclusion.
Rounding out Mulholland Drive are a number of good performances from relative unknowns.
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 Mulholland Drive review
Contrasting with the long undeviating lines of The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive is a tortuous road perched on the hills of Los Angeles that is the theater of a series of mysterious crimes.
Mulholland Drive is undoubtedly the film which will delight the fans of Twin Peaks (and not only because of the presence of a dwarf in an empty room).
Mulholland Drive is a brilliant and daring film, an enigmatic puzzle and an amused satire, but especially a tribute to the women who try to follow their path in an environment where the testosterone reigns with impunity.
www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/mulhollanddrive.html   (1256 words)

  
 TheMovieBoy Review: Mulholland Drive (2001)
The targeted victim, a luscious brunette beauty (Laura Elena Haring), is the sole survivor, and she stumbles away from the wreckage seeking shelter in a gorgeous nearby apartment that has been left empty by a vacationing actress.
This is the basic setup of "Mulholland Drive," although to give anything else away is to, conflictingly, steal the pleasures of discovering the film as it plays out, and to not give much away at all.
"Mulholland Drive" has been highly publicized to have originally started off as a TV pilot that was rejected by the network.
www.themovieboy.com /reviews/m/01_mdrive.htm   (852 words)

  
 Parks | LAMountains.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Constructed in 1924, twenty four-mile Mulholland Drive in the City of Los Angeles was envisioned by the famous Water Bureau Chief and City Engineer, William D. Mulholland, as a scenic road that would transport city dwellers to the mountains and beaches.
On the north side of Mulholland Drive, the developed overlook named for local conservationist, Barbara A. Fine, includes a large paved parking area and a short trail to viewpoints with a stunning view of the upper fork of Fryman Canyon, the San Fernando Valley, the Simi Hills, and the San Gabriel Mountains.
On the south side of Mulholland Drive, the Stone Canyon Overlook was developed in 1994 with funds from the California Department of Transportation Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Grant Program.
www.lamountains.com /parks.asp?parkid=37   (653 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF film review MULHOLLAND DRIVE movie by David Lynch with Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In "Mulholland Drive," David Lynch takes us to Hollywood, where young Bettys arrive with stars in their eyes, trying to make their dreams come true, where they can mingle with the rich and famous and find success acting as different people.
Confusion, once again, abounds, but the elusive beauty of "Mulholland Drive" is not in its puzzling plot, but in the cinematic moments created by that plot and the exquisite suspense that Lynch wields in the act of storytelling.
Since it was originally developed as a TV pilot, Lynch admits that "Mulholland Drive" asks more questions and begins more puzzles than it can possibly answer or complete at the end of two and a half hours.
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 Mulholland Drive
Mulholland is a curve lover's urban dream, (though watch for cyclists, cars exiting hidden drives and joggers.
Mulholland drive, also known as the Hollywood Hills is home to some of the most glamorous homes in the world.
Most intriguing is the fact that this drive, situated in the middle of one of the world's largest cities, feels like jaunt through the country.
www.couplescompany.com /Features/CT/SundayDrive/Mulholland/default.htm   (518 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive (2001) : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mulholland Drive begins its regular engagement on October 8 at all four theaters as well as the Lincoln Plaza Cinema.
Directed and written by Lynch, Mulholland Drive is a complex tale of suspense, set in the unreal universe of Los Angeles.
Mulholland Drive was produced by Mary Sweeney, Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire and Tony Krantz.
www.countingdown.com /movies/290578/news?item_id=307792   (269 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive (2001): Reviews
Mulholland Drive isn't a "puzzle" like "Memento," in which the pieces (sort of) fit together.
Mulholland Drive is an extended mood opera, if you want to put an arty label on incoherence.
In Hollywood (a.k.a Mulholland Dr.) bad actors rings false and are cartoonish (like Betty herself), while the industry IS the mobster, directors are puppets and the STORY is linear.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/mulhollanddrive   (1607 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive: Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring.
Mulholland Drive was originally designed as an ABC TV pilot.
In Mullholand Drive, the star of Naomi Watts (Betty Elms) rises to the Mount Olympus of female acting.
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 GreenCine | product main - Mulholland Drive (2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car.
David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as the pilot film for a television series; after the ABC television network rejected the pilot and declined to air it, the French production film StudioCanal took over the project, and Lynch reshot and re-edited the material into a theatrical feature.
Mulholland Drive is everything you want from a David Lynch film, dark, frighten filled with symbols and precision that is exclusive to David Lynch.
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 Mulholland Drive Screenplay
"Mulholland Drive." The car moves under the sign as it turns and the words fall once again into darkness.
NIGHT - MULHOLLAND DRIVE Gliding we follow the car - an older fl Cadillac limousine - as it winds its way up Mulholland Drive through the darkness of the Hollywood Hills.
FURTHER UP MULHOLLAND DRIVE - NIGHT Two cars - a convertible and a late model sedan are drag racing toward the blind curve blocking the view of the Cadillac limousine.
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 Mulholland Drive
When word leaked out earlier this year that David Lynch was making his return to television with a new ABC series called Mulholland Drive, it was cause for jubilation among those who never quite got over that strange Northwestern town with the dancing dwarf and the damn fine cup of coffee, Twin Peaks.
Mulholland Drive, however, maintains an ever-tightening, claustrophobic grip that all but eliminates the slack quirkiness that too often plagued the earlier show.
While nothing in the Mulholland Drive pilot matches the emotional wallop of the discovery of Laura Palmer's body wrapped in plastic, the director has achieved a consistent tone of enveloping dread that suffuses even the most banal of scenes.
www.culturevulture.net /Television/MulhollandDrive.htm   (1055 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Early in Mulholland Drive, David Lynch's suspenseful and enigmatic new movie, a perky blonde who's just arrived in Hollywood marvels at the fairy-tale changes in her life.
Mulholland Drive is Lynch's haunting dissection of the myth of Hollywood as both the factory where collective dreams are forged and the mecca for starry-eyed youths.
Mulholland Drive began life as a pilot for a television series, but Lynch retooled it after the network rejected it.
www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/ent/movies/reviews/1095540.html   (1138 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive - David Lynch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mulholland Drive is a complex tale of suspense, set in the unreal universe of Los Angeles.
Lynch's Picture Factory joined with Imagine Television in association with Touchstone Television to produce a two-hour ABC pilot titled "Mulholland Drive." ABC passed on it for the fall 99 season.
The reason was due to the violence in the pilot (the decision came in the wake of the Colorado shootings).
www.lynchnet.com /mdrive   (414 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mulholland Drive (often abbreviated Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch.
Mulholland Drive is an actual road that twists its way through the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.
Mulholland Drive analysis by Eric Gans, Professor of French at UCLA
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Mulholland Drive is the latest addition to a bizarre canon.
Mulholland Drive, however, seems to take a step farther than Lost Highway took us in this regard, which itself was a step beyond Blue Velvet.
I suppose a character would be defined by structuralists as "one who functions to progress the narrative either positively or negatively." And when this sense of direction collapses, then so does the purpose of a "character".
www.thematthewshouseproject.com /film/mulhollanddrive.htm   (1452 words)

  
 The Popkorn Junkie :: Mulholland Drive
"Mulholland Drive" is a film that is hard to grasp and will be hard to review with just one viewing of the film, but I will attempt to write one.
"Mulholland Drive" is not only a film noir, but also a psychological mystery which puts one's brain at constant work to try to figure out what is going on.
For those who like to use their brains while watching (and after watching) a film will be engrossed and fascinated with "Mulholland Drive".
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 Amazon.co.uk: Mulholland Drive [2002]: DVD: Naomi Watts,Ann Miller,Laura Harring,Dan Hedaya,Justin Theroux,Brent ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Laura Harring is involved in a car crash and develops amniesia she wanders dazedly into Mulholland Drive and into another persons house.
'Mulholland Drive' is like a dodgy jigsaw purchased at a car boot sale-pieces may be missing, the colours may be faded, yet it almost-makes-sense if you could just find those other pieces...
Hoping to recreate the success of the earlier 'Twin Peaks', 'Mulholland Drive' was originally a pilot for a TV show.
www.amazon.co.uk /Mulholland-Drive-Naomi-Watts/dp/B00006CY8L   (1780 words)

  
 Mulholland Drive Scenic Route
Mulholland Drive offers spectacular views of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, both during daylight and evening hours.
Mulholland extends from Pacific Coast Highway, all the way to Hollywood, however not all of it is paved.
Mulholland Drive is windy and narrow at points.
www.latourist.com /mulholland-drive.htm   (514 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mulholland Drive: DVD: David Lynch,Michael J. Anderson,Diane Baker,Scott Coffey,Billy Ray Cyrus,Chad ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Early on in Mulholland Drive, a man sits in a Hollywood greasy spoon, relating a dream to a friend sitting across from him.
Mulholland Drive operates according to the relentless logic of dreams -- the only kind of logic that matters to Lynch.
Mulholland is a perfect example of a film being for 'eltistic taste' and like Dirge9 I agree that the fact that this film gets the passionate reviews that it does, is refreshing because it proves that Lynch's art is indeed challenging and every negative review you give it further proves this point.
www.amazon.ca /Mulholland-Drive-David-Lynch/dp/B00005JKJA   (2233 words)

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