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David Lynch RIP “You are the Perfect Drug” for Cineastas

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 1.16.2025

David Lynch, Missoula, Montana native and filmmaker extraordinaire died January 15th at age 78.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch. He was born on January 20, 1946 and, perhaps, fittingly passed away before Donald Trump’s inaugural on January 20, 2025.

Even David Lynch couldn’t fathom and did not want to witness this fascist bully’s return to power.

While I only saw a couple of his films, ‘Lost Highway’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ one song from ‘Lost Highway’ best encapsulates Lynch is wild, crazy, mind bending style.

‘You are the Perfect Drug’ written and performed by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails specifically for ‘Lost Highway’.

Lost Highway is a 1997 surrealist neo-noir film directed by David Lynch, and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Blake in his final film role. The film follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home. He is suddenly convicted of murder, after which he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic (Getty) leading a different life.
The Balboa Cinema in our outer Richmond District neighborhood weeks ago had David Lynch’s masterpiece “Blue Velvet” on its schedule for January 16th and 17th, 2025. Predictably, following David Lynch’s passing the two screenings sold out. Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. Blending psychological horror[4][5] with film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name. The film concerns a young college student who, returning home to visit his ill father, discovers a severed human ear in a field. The ear then leads him to uncover a vast criminal conspiracy and enter into a romantic relationship with a troubled lounge singer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Velvet_(film)