Lynch, David

Lost Highway

Haunting sexuality ricochet action and fleeting murderous shadows await you on a journey that begins and ends on the Lost Highway. The successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks The man in black who threatens to expose him The young mechanic with links to a powerful mobster The mobster's moll who knows what she wants and the people who can get it for her. These are the riders on the Lost Highway trapped in their worlds of desire destiny and unknown destination where the truth is always just a short way further down the road. Featuring a star-studded soundtrack and an incredible cast including Bill Pullman (Independence Day) Patricia Arquette (Medium) Balthazar Getty Robert Blake and Robert Loggia Lost Highway is a powerful sensual and extraordinary movie experience from renowned director David Lynch (Blue Velvet Twin Peaks).System Requirements:Running Time: 120 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA UPC: 025195018111 Manufacturer No: 62102337

Plot is a meaningless term when trying to describe Lost Highway. Here, more or less, is what happens: A noise-jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) suspects his wife (Patricia Arquette) of infidelity. Meanwhile, someone is breaking into their house and videotaping them while they sleep. The wife is murdered and Pullman is convicted of the crime. Then, in prison, he transmogrifies into a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) who is subsequently released, since, after all, he's not the guy they convicted. Getty goes back to his life and meets a local gangster's moll, who happens to be played by Patricia Arquette... but none of this has much to do with what the movie is really about. Dreams are what intrigues director David Lynch. Not friendly, happy dreams; his dreams whisper that what we think is real is just something we made up, something to keep ourselves from falling into chaos. Characters are fragments. Events happen not because they make sense, but because deep down we want these things to happen. Of course, in Lynch's dreams, as in our waking lives, getting what we want is not always pleasant. In the movie's best moments, you really have no idea what you're seeing. The screen is a big rectangle of color and shadow, but what it represents, well, it could be anything. And yet, in those moments, you've been given just enough hints of place, character, and story that these elusive images elicit a genuine dread, a sense that you might not want to see this, yet you can't look away; a sense that we are living on borrowed time, that something is fiercely askew in our psyches. As a whole, Lost Highway is a failure: much of it is padded, gratuitous, and indulgent and pointless cameos bog down an already sluggish narrative. Yet within that failure are moments worth more than the entirety of most successful movies. --Bret Fetzer

Wild At Heart

David Lynch's 1990 Wild at Heart is an utterly random and ugly experience with pockets of startling imagery and inspired set pieces. Based on a Barry Gifford novel, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers on the lam whose relationship is tested and who meet some truly dangerous wackos (including an almost-simian Willem Dafoe). Lynch's thoughts seem to be everywhere, and he expects the audience to keep up with a story that seems more a collection of avant-garde whims than a coherent vision with the intuitive brilliance of his Blue Velvet. Cage gives one of his more chaotic performances, but then he was just reading Lynch's signposts. --Tom Keogh

If Lula knows one thing in this world it s she s destined to be with her ex-con boyfriends Sailor- no matter how many times her mama tries to kill him. But when she and Sailor finally hit the road in a desperate bid to find happiness their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld filled with sexual secrets and dangerous desires that form a terrifying Tapestry of human extremity (Variety)System Requirements: Running Time 124 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616914606 Manufacturer No: 1007379

Don't Knock the Rock / Rock Around the Clock

Rock 'n roll movies have rarely been more true to the spirit of the music than these two from the mid-'50s. That's not to say that Don't Knock the Rock and Rock Around the Clock, both of which were directed (in black & white) by Fred Sears and released in 1956, are anyone's idea of classic cinema. On the contrary, this is assembly-line stuff: the stories are flimsy and predictable; the dialogue is often risible, and much of the acting is on a high school drama club level. But these movies are all about the music (featuring multiple performances by Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard, the Treniers, the Platters, and others), with a lesser but still heavy emphasis on dancing, and on those levels they are an unexpected but unqualified delight. In Rock Around the Clock, agent Steve Hollis (Johnny Johnston) and his bass playing pal Corny (Henry Slate) quit their big band gigs and hit the road, where they happen upon Haley and his band in a Podunk farming town. Although they don't quite know what to make of the Comets' music ("It isn't boogie, it isn't jive, it isn't swing… it's kinda all of 'em!"), they know a hot prospect when they find one and promise to secure them a legitimate shot at the big time (with the help of Alan Freed, the pioneering Ohio disc jockey, who plays himself, albeit in a different capacity). Complications ensue, including romantic ones, but, well, who really cares? Haley and his band are on fire; they're lip-syncing, but the recordings of "See You Later Alligator," the title tune (which had made its debut a year earlier in Blackboard Jungle), and others are filled with snap and crackle, the musicians are great (especially jazz-influenced guitarist Franny Beecher), the stage show is a riot, and the dancing siblings played by Lisa Gaye and Earl Barton are simply amazing.

It's more of the same in Don't Knock the Rock, in which reluctant star Arnie Haines (Alan Dale, a crooner who's not entirely convincing as a rocker), weary of life on the road, packs it in and heads home to sleepy Mellondale, wherever that is. The kids love him, but the adults, led by the odious old mayor, ban his "outrageous, depraved" music; Arnie then sets out to show them that "rock 'n' roll is a safe and sane dance for all young people." Once again, the plot is about as subtle as a Slayer concert, but Haley, Little Richard, and especially the hip and hilarious vocal trio the Treniers more than make up for that, as do several dynamic, beautifully choreographed dance numbers. The two-disc set includes no bonus features. --Sam Graham

Rock Around the Clock: Showcasing some of the best loved bands and songs of the early rock n' roll era this film was a sensation with teens when it debuted and raised quite a few eyebrows from their perplexed parents who just didn't "get it."Don t Knock the Rock: A rock and roller comes back to his home town to put on a show but meets opposition from the straight-laced locals. Don t Knock the Rock features performances by Bill Haley and His Comets (singing "Don't Knock The Rock" and " Hook Line and Sinker") and Little Richard (singing "Long Tall Sally" and "Tutti Frutti").System Requirements:Run Time: 161 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 043396140103 Manufacturer No: 14010

Nadja

Dumbland

Dumbland is a crude stupid violent and absurd animated series created entirely by master of the macabre David Lynch. If it is funny it is funny because we see the absurdity of it all. System Requirements:Running Time 60 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only) UPC: 858334001053 Manufacturer No: 00105-3

Lumiere & Company

Some of the world's leading directors (David Lynch, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Zhang Yimou, John Boorman) use the original Lumiere picture camera to create short films all over the world. Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene access, Trailer, Languages: French, Subtitles: English

Midnight Movies

Between 1970 and 1977 six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch movies: The allegorical freak-out EL TOPO the graphic horror of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD outrageous filth fest PINK FLAMINGOS outlaw reggae s THE HARDER THEY COME the phenomenal ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and the darkly disturbing ERASERHEAD. In this acclaimed documentary discover the surprising stories behind the movies that defied mainstream America to change the world of cinema forever featuring startling clips rare archival footage and revealing interviews with the films directors distributors exhibitors and supporters including John Waters David Lynch Roger Ebert George Romero Richard O Brien Alejandro Jodorowsky and many more. System Requirements:Length: 86 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 013138300485 Manufacturer No: P3004

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Director Toby Keeler investigates all of David Lynch's artistic endeavors (which include photography, painting, music, and furniture building as well as filmmaking) in this fascinating documentary shot during the making of Lost Highway. Along with film clips and interviews with Lynch, composer Angelo Badalamenti, and producer Deepak Nayar are numerous behind-the-scenes glimpses at Lost Highway and Lynch at work in other media. The highlight is the Eraserhead reunion, where Jack Nance, Catherine Coulson (the "Log Lady" from Twin Peaks and Nance's first wife), and Lynch visit the site where Lynch's first successful feature was shot in the mid-1970s over a two-year period. Maybe not as revealing as one could hope, but an always intriguing portrait of an uncompromising artist driven to create in a wide range of media. --Sean Axmaker.

From an early age, David Lynch was inspired by the arts and the warm inner glow that comes with the pursuit of creative expression. "Pretty as a Picture:The Art of David Lynch" examines how this modern day Renaissance man makes a motion picture, and examines, through his artistic explorations, the very nature of creativity.

I Don't Know Jack

David Lynch presents... I Don't Know Jack