Mulholland Dr. [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: David Lynch

Overview

David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment with no idea of where or who she is. As it turns out, the apartment is home to an elderly woman who is out of town, and is allowing her niece Betty (Naomi Watts) to stay there; Betty is a small-town girl from Canada who wants to be an actress, and her aunt was able to arrange an audition with a film director for her. Betty befriends the injured woman, who begins calling herself "Rita" after seeing a poster of Rita Hayworth. While Betty's audition impresses a casting agent, and she catches the eye of hotshot director Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux), Kesher's producers and moneymen insist with no small vehemence that he instead cast a woman named Camilla Rhodes. As Rita attempts to put the pieces of her life back together, she pulls the name Diane Selwyn from her memory; Rita thinks it could be her real name, but when she and Betty find a listing for Diane Selwyn and visit her apartment, they discover the latest victim of a mysterious killer who is eluding police detective Harry McKnight (Robert Forster). Rita's emotional identity soon takes a left turn, and it turns out that neither woman is quite who she once appeared to be. David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as the pilot film for a television series; after the ABC television network rejected the pilot and declined to air it, the French production film StudioCanal took over the project, and Lynch reshot and re-edited the material into a theatrical feature. The resulting version of Mulholland Drive premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where David Lynch shared Best Director honors with Joel Coen.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/27/2015
UPC:	0715515159319
Original Release:	2001
Rating:	R
Source:	THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:26:00
Sales rank:	1,520

Special Features

New, restored 4k digital transfer supervised by Director David Lynch and Director of Photography Peter Deming, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; New interviews with Lynch; Deming; actors Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, and Laura Harring; Composer Angelo Badalamenti; Production Designer Jack Fisk; and Casting Director Johanna Ray; On-set footage; Deleted Scene; Trailer; Plus: A booklet featuring an interview with Lynch from the 2005 edition of Filmmaker and Writer Chris Rodley's book of Lynch on Lynch

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Naomi Watts	Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn
Justin Theroux	Adam Kesher
Ann Miller	Coco Lenoix
Robert Forster	D?tective Harry McKnight,Martha Johnson
Dan Hedaya	Vincenzo Castigliane
Mark Pellegrino	Joe
Brian Beacock	Studio Singer
Michael J. Anderson	Mr. Roque
Diane Baker	Actor
Scott Coffey	Wilkins
Billy Ray Cyrus	Gene
Chad Everett	Jimmy Katz,le chauffeur de taxi
Sean E. Markland	Taxi Driver
Brent Briscoe	Det. Neal Domgaard
Katharine Towne	Cynthia
Lee Grant	Louise Bonner
Scott Wulff	Limo Driver,le chauffeur de la limousine
Monty Montgomery	Cowboy,Cowboy
Rita Taggart	Linney James
James Karen	Wally
Angelo Badalamenti	Luigi Castigliane,Composer
Michael Des Barres	Billy
Marcus Graham	Mr. Darby
Missy Crider	Winkie's Waitress
Robert Katims	Ray Hott
Jeanne Bates	Irene
Dan Birnbaum	Irene's Companion
Maya Bond	Aunt Ruth
Patrick Fischler	Dan
Michael Cooke	Herb
Bonnie Aarons	Bun
Joseph Kearney	Roque's Manservant
Enrique Buelna	Back of Head Man
Richard Mead	Hairy-Armed Man
Daniel Rey	Valet Attendant
David Schroeder	Robert Smith
Tom Morris	Espresso Man
Melissa George	Camilla Rhodes
Matt Gallini	Castigliane Limo Driver,Castigliane Limo Driver
Vincent Castellanos	Ed
Diane Nelson	Heavy-Set Woman
Charlie Croughwell	Vacuum Man
Rena Riffel	Laney
Tad Horino	Taka
Tony Longo	Kenny
Geno Silva	Hotel Manager/Emcee
Wayne Grace	Bob Booker
Lisa Ferguson	Julie Chadwick
Michele Hicks	Nicki
Elizabeth Lackey	Carol
Blake Lindsley	Backup Singer
Adrien Curry	Backup Singer
Tyrah M. Lindsey	Backup Singer
Michael Weatherred	Hank
Michael Fairman	Jason
Johanna Stein	Woman in No. 12
Richard Green	The Magician
Conte Candoli	Trumpet Player
Cori Glazer	Blue-Haired Lady
Rebekah Del Rio	Herself
Lyssie Powell	Blonde in Bed
Kimberly Clever	Dancer
Joshua Collazo	Dancer
David Frutos	Dancer
Peter Loggins	Dancer
Theresa Salazar	Dancer
Thea Samuels	Dancer
Christian Thompson	Dancer
Laura Harring	Rita
William Ostrander	Actor
Laura Harrington	Actor
Lori Heuring	Lorraine Kesher

Technical Credits

David Lynch

David Lynch	Screenwriter
Scott Billups	Special Effects,Special Effects
Charlie Croughwell	Stunts
Pierre Edelman	Executive Producer,Producer
Gary D'Amico	Special Effects
Neal Edelstein	Producer
Tony Krantz	Producer
Michael Polaire	Producer
Johanna Ray	Casting
Alain Sarde	Producer
Mary Sweeney	Producer
Joyce Eliason	Producer
John Wentworth	Producer
Bryan Arenas	Sound Effects
Susan Cahill	Sound Effects
Paul Timothy Carden	Sound Effects
Ronald Eng	Sound Effects
Alan Freedman	Sound Effects
Philip Bartko	Special Effects
Brian Avery	Stunts
Julie M. Anderson	Producer
Spike Allison Hooper	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Dreams of Hollywood stardom become nightmares in Mulholland Dr., a masterful psychological thriller from David Lynch. Newcomer Naomi Watts gives a breakout performance as an aspiring young actress whose friendship with a mysterious, voluptuously beautiful brunette amnesiac (Laura Elena Harring) evolves into something much more. The pair's search for Harring’s identity becomes the film's main story line, but it's flanked by several obliquely connected subplots, all set against the backdrop of a Hollywood rife with Lynch's typically surreal quotient of freaks and weirdos, enigmatic cabals, and obscure conspiracies. The unraveling of the film's central mystery eventually dissolves the very fabric of screen reality, allowing a dark truth to gradually emerge. It's all mind-bending, to say the least, and consummately eerie, yet leavened by Lynch's trademark offbeat humor. Watts is nothing short of perfection: Her young, would-be starlet is sexy, eager to please, vulnerable, and afflicted with the kind of curiosity that kills cats -- qualities that make the Sapphic love story at the heart of the film both moving and intensely erotic. Lynch's longtime collaborator Angelo Badalamenti contributes a haunting score that works in tandem with an unnerving tapestry of aural textures to accentuate the aura of subliminal menace. But it’s the unique structure, in which conventional narrative progression is entirely replaced by dream logic, that the film achieves an almost psychedelic potency. Mulholland Dr. may have echoes of Lynch’s Lost Highway and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me but this modern masterpiece is in a genre all its own.