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Lost Highway (1997)

Lost Highway
Call Me. Dial your number. Go ahead.
—Mystery Man
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Plunging the dark horizontal depths of a possible collision or arrival, David Lynch and title designer Jay Johnson borrow from Jack Cardiff’s The Girl on a Motorcycle and Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop for the speed-dream start to Lost Highway. The variable velocity puts you ill at ease, while the atmospheric thrust of David Bowie and Brian Eno’s track “I’m Deranged” imbues the cryptic mix.

  • Credits

Title Designer: Jay Johnson

Music: "I'm Deranged" by David Bowie

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Title sequence

  • Title Designer

    Jay Johnson
  • Category

    Film
  • Styles

    1990s, live action, main title, typographic
Lost Highway
  • Film Director

    David Lynch
  • Release Date

    February 21, 1997
  • Aspect Ratio

    2.35:1
  • Studio

    October Films
  • Country

    France
  • Language

    English
  • Reviews

    Reviews on Letterboxd
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Article

  • Writer

    Alexander Ulloa
  • Published

    January 2, 2009

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