MULHOLLAND DRIVE

THURS 5/28
7:30pm

R | 2hr 27min | Thriller

STAFF PICK: PAUL

The late, great David Lynch was an anomaly in American cinema: a true surrealist embraced by both critics and mainstream audiences. Mulholland Drive finds Lynch at the peak of his powers, crafting a sunbaked neo-noir fever dream that doesn’t simply wash over the audience—it burrows deep into the psyche, lingering long after the credits roll. On the surface, the film follows Betty (a tour-de-force performance from Naomi Watts), a wide-eyed aspiring actress newly arrived in Hollywood who becomes entangled in an increasingly strange mystery after encountering an amnesiac woman hiding in her apartment. But beneath the seductive puzzle-box surface lies Lynch’s haunting meditation on identity, desire, and innocence devoured by the machinery of Hollywood. A story as old as time, transformed into something dreamlike, terrifying, and almost mythic in scope.

One of the most audacious works of popular cinema ever made—and a film that only deepens with each viewing.