This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.
From the ashes of a failed TV pilot, David Lynch fashioned one of the greatest films of 21st century.
From the absurd midnight automobile accident on the Los Angeles road that opens the movie, and gives it its title, Mulholland Drive makes perfect (irrational) sense. Lynch’s outlandish noir feels familiar, and yet it’s continually surprising, as when a bungled assassination turns into a Rube Goldberg mechanism involving two additional victims, a vacuum cleaner, and a smoke detector, or a scene begins with an abrupt eruption of pink and turquoise and a studio rendition of the Connie Stevens chestnut “Sixteen Reasons (Why I Love You).” And let’s not forget Rebekah Del Rio’s staggering performance of “Llorando” in an empty theater.
The plot, such as it is: Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’ dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other.
Mulholland Drive has been called the greatest film of the 21st century by Film Comment, Indiewire, Village Voice, Cahiers du Cinema, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the BBC.
Oh, and Billy Ray Cyrus is in there, too.