Mulholland Drive

Starring: Ann Miller, Naomi Watts Director: David Lynch Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 9th September, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Mulholland Dr is a motion picture, released in 2001 & directed by David Lynch. The project initially was intended to be the two-hour pilot for ABC & subsequent tv series, hoping to recreate Lynchs success with Twin Peaks. When Lynch finally gave them the finished pilot, however, they wanted numerous cuts made for the sake of time & content. Lynch grudgingly made them, but then the network decided that it simply didnt work. Lynch kept control of the footage he had already shot & with the help of Canal Plus, a French distributor, managed to finish the film. It premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, to much praise. He was co-awarded the Best Director prize at the festival. It received critical praise in the United States, being named Best Picture of the Year by the New York Film Critics Association & even more notably was given an enthusiastic thumbs-up by critic Roger Ebert, who had previously expressed mixed feelings about Lynchs work. Lynch was also nominated for a Best Directing Oscar for the second time, losing to A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard. Posters Of Mulholland Drive

Pandora couldnt resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, & lets just say in Mulholland Drive David Lynch indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, a love story in the city of dreams, Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the films first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles & its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates & nightmare visions are induced, but not before weve become enthralled by the films two main characters: the dazed & sullen femme fatale, Rita , & the pert blonde just-arrived from Ontario who decides to help Rita regain her memory. Triggered by a rapturous Spanish-language version of Roy Orbisons Crying, Lynchs best film since Blue Velvet splits glowingly into two equally compelling parts.

Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer & actress. Born Johnnie Lucille Collier in Chireno, Texas, she was considered a child dance prodigy. She was given a contract with RKO at the age of thirteen. She became famous for her roles in films such as Kiss Me Kate, Easter Parade & On the Town. Miller was famed for her speed in tap dancing ; she claimed to be able to tap 500 times per minute. Her father insisted on the name Johnnie, but she was often called Annie. She grew up in Houston & took up dancing to help exercise her legs to help her rickets. Her film career effectively ended in 1956, but she remained active in the theatre. In 1979 she astounded audiences in the Broadway show Sugar Babies & took a role in David Lynch s movie Mulholland Dr She died 22 January, 2004 at the age of 81 from lung cancer & was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood. Posters Of Ann Miller

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Naomi Watts is an English -born Australian actress & producer. Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Kent, England, where she lived until the age of eight. Her parents, Peter & Myfanwy Watts had separated when she was four years old & when she was seven her father died. Following her fathers death, her mother relocated the family to the town of Llangefni, in Northern Wales, where they lived with Naomis grandparents, Hugh & Nikki Roberts, although her mother occasionally moved the family around Wales & England, usually to follow boyfriends, but she always ended up returning to Llangefni. She lived there until she was 14. Then, during a trip to Australia, her mother became convinced that there was the land of opportunities & moved the family to Sydney in 1982. Her grandmother, Nikki, was Australian, which made it easier to obtain the documentation necessary, since Naomi & her family were entitled to Australian citizenship. Posters Of Naomi Watts

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David Lynch is an American saxophonist from Los Angeles, coming from a family of musicians Lynch began playing music when in Primary School, where his teacher introduced him to classical flute. At the age of 15, he started learning jazz & saxophone & got a scholarship for the Idyllwild school of music & the arts. He continued his studies in Las Vegas. At 17, he orchestrated the musical band of the department of Modern Music of his High School & he was voted as the Best Jazz Musician of the year. Afterwards he returned to Los Angeles where he took lessons on improvisation, harmony & composition in Disc grove music workshops, as well as playing in various clubs, studios & big bands. Among his teachers were notable Garvin Buschelle & James Moody. In 1982, he decided to visit Europe. In Greece he met a number of remarkable artists. He decided to settle there & he was one of the founding members of a Jazz band called ISKRA, with which they toured all over Greece & abroad. In 1986, A New Day was released & David Lynch played a vital part in the composition of most songs of the album. Posters Of Mulholland Drive

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