Great, Great Movie

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2001)

I've been a longtime lynch fan, but, as such, have been rather disappointed with many of his efforts since Blue Velvet. All of his movies since that film had wonderful moments, but none of them (except, most recently, The Straight Story) held me in their thrall as totally and completely as Eraserhead and Blue Velvet had -- until now, with Mulholland Drive. It's a definitive David Lynch movie, with his strange one-of-a-kind blend of the heartfelt, the ironic, the absurd and the tragic, the sublime and the ridiculous and the horrific. It is, for me, the film I've been waiting for him to make since BV. He regains his control and completely trusts his phenomonal instincts from the first frame to the last. But also, most interestingly, there is a real maturity, both in style and content, present in this work. For those who, like one of the people above, think the last third is "hokum" or nonsense, I really don't know what to say; it most definitely is not, and has a rhyme AND reason, and is absolutely transcendant. I say this because it's true; I may be a fan, but I'm no sycophant, and neither are most of the others here who love the film.
Anyway, I can't wait to see it over and over again; I can't stop thinking about it!