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Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist neo-noir mystery art film written and directed by David Lynch. Its plot follows an aspiring actress ( Naomi Watts ) who arrives in Los Angeles , where she befriends a woman ( Laura Harring ) who is suffering from amnesia after a car accident.
Lynch's other feature films include the critically successful The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001), all of which went on to earn Academy Award nominations, [6] [7] [8] and the commercial flop Dune. [9] Lynch also branched out into television, and later, internet-based series.
Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by David Lynch.Blending psychological horror [4] [5] with film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name.
Daily Vanguard editor Victoria Castellanos remarked that the film "serves as a wonderful companion to Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, and in many ways is more surreal and emotional than some of Lynch's other films". [46] Lost Highway served as an inspiration for the 2001 video game Silent Hill 2. [65] [66]
Naomi Ellen Watts was born on 28 September 1968, in Shoreham, Kent, England. [4] [5] She is the daughter of Myfanwy (Miv) Edwards (née Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume and set designer, [4] and Peter Watts (1946–1976), a road manager and audio engineer who worked with Pink Floyd.
In the early 1950s, a four-man squad of LAPD detectives, frustrated with the rules and weaknesses of the legal system stopping them from more aggressively battling crime, commit an extrajudicial execution when they toss Jack Flynn, a powerful gangster from Chicago, off a cliff on Mulholland Drive, nicknamed "Mulholland Falls" for all the criminals they have thrown to their deaths.
Watts played an aspiring actress in David Lynch's neo-noir film Mulholland Drive (2001), which was her breakthrough role and garnered her international recognition. [1] [4] She then starred as journalist Rachel Keller in the horror remake The Ring (2002), and reprised the role in its sequel The Ring Two (2005).
Angelo Daniel Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 – December 11, 2022) was an American composer and arranger best known for his film music, notably the scores for his acclaimed collaborations with director David Lynch, Blue Velvet (1986), the Twin Peaks television series, The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001).