More than a decade after its release in theaters, David Lynch’s Lost Highway finally arrives on DVD today in the United States. Next week it arrives on the London stage, as composer Olga Neuwirth's opera based on the film has its British premiere at the Young Vic Theater.
"I've always loved David Lynch's films, ever since The Elephant Man," Neuwirth told the U.K. Telegraph, "but there was something really special about Lost Highway… I love the way it plays with time, and the way you cannot tell what is reality and what is fantasy. This fits in with my view of music-theatre, because I don't want to represent things in a naturalistic way. I wanted to create an endless loop of time, with little phrases that recur again and again."
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