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After The Straight Story, a wonderful departure from David Lynch's usual m.o., I had hoped that he might have outgrown his obsessions. Unfortunately, judging from Lynch's new movie Mulholland Drive, I was wrong.

This creepy tale of the seedy side of Hollywood was originally designed as the pilot for an ABC television series, but it was canceled when the tv execs balked. Watching this bizarre group of characters (an actress on the wrong side of the popularity mountain, a needy director, a star-crossed young woman, a weird old psychic, a decomposing body, a hideous-looking homeless man, and a hilarious hit man), you can imagine both what a provocative series this might have been and why ABC cut it.

You can also guess at exactly which point the television show ends and the movie begins. That would be when two gorgeous actresses (one doing her best impersonation of Sherilynn Fenn) suddenly disrobe and embark on a rather explicit lesbian scene. The film's last half-hour can only be described as a total mind-bleep, with various characters morphing into other characters
and Lynch regurgitating his stew of fetishes. Many critics are hailing this as a masterpiece, but it's really just a re-hash of _Lost Highway_ and Twin Peaks. If you enjoy that sort of mess, well here's more vomit for you. 

J. Robert Parks 10/27/2001