Tag: David Lynch


  • Will Love Win Out: Good and Evil in Lynch’s Filmography

    “What do you fear most in the world?” Windom Earle demands of Garland Briggs. His response, “The possibility that love is not enough” indicates a major theme of Lynch’s.  From Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway, to Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, and The Return, Lynch wrestles with a central question: between the darker…

  • “We’ve Met Before, Haven’t We?”: Lost Highway and the Language of Lynch

    David Lynch’s 1997 noir film, Lost Highway, featuring an embarrassing amount of Marylin Manson, is at least Wikipedially about jazz musician Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), who murders his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette), whom he suspects of having an affair with porn facilitator and pimp Andy (Michael Massee). While awaiting execution, Fred falls into a psychogenic…