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Mary Sweeney

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Lost Highway

David Lynch · 1997

David Lynch's first film after Twin Peaks follows Bill Pullman's jazz musician, arrested for a murder he cannot account for, who inexplicably becomes a different young man midway through. Written with novelist Barry Gifford and shot by Peter Deming in near-total darkness, it was a box-office failure on release that has since built a devoted following willing to sit with a story that refuses to resolve.

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Mulholland Drive

David Lynch · 2001

Rejected by ABC as a television pilot, Mulholland Drive was rebuilt by David Lynch into a feature with new financing, new footage, and an ending that recontextualises everything before it. Naomi Watts's performance carries the film from bright optimism to something far darker, across a Los Angeles built out of borrowed names and unresolved threads.