After a five-year hiatus following the release of Fire Walk With Me, Lynch returned with perhaps his most daring and disturbing work since Eraserhead. Lost Highway follows an LA jazz saxophonist’s (Bill Pullman) withering relationship with his wife (Patricia Arquette), who receive cryptic, menacing surveillance tapes of their Hollywood home. As the anxiety within their marriage grows, the logic of time, space, and identity seem to slip away, splintering the narrative into a thrilling, schizophrenic ride down the darkest roads of the human psyche, presenting a structural precursor to Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire. The cast also features unforgettable turns by Robert Loggia, Robert Blake, and, in his last movie, Richard Pryor. Lynch’s long-time music collaborator Angelo Badalamenti and Nine Inch Nails’s Trent Reznor collaborated to create the soundtrack for this masterfully disorienting cult classic.
This exhibition features three recently restored paper prints originally produced by Biograph Studios and directed by D.W. Griffith (American 1875–1948) in 1908. Also included is a partially restored version of Le Mélomane (The Melomaniac), a 1903 short directed by the legendary French special effects virtuoso, Georges Méliès (1861–1938).