Viewing: March 04,2025
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Cast: Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Laura Harring, Robert Forster
Awards: Best Director (nom) - Academy Awards
Join us Tuesday, March 4th at 7:00 p.m. for another fantastic installment of Let’s Do Lynch: A David Lynch Retrospective — a brilliant film that peers into the shadows cast by the spotlights in Hollywood!
Admission $8
About the film
An attempted murder on Hollywood’s famed Mulholland Drive goes awry when a car crash kills the assailant and leaves the victim, a beautiful dark-haired woman, with amnesia. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles, unable to remember her own identity. She eventually finds her way into an apartment occupied by aspiring actress Betty Wells. The woman, after being discovered by Betty, claims falsely that her name is “Rita” – taking the name from a movie poster for the film Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth – and explains to Betty that she has amnesia and is in danger. From there, the two women embark on a journey to try and learn Rita’s true identity. As it turns out, Rita is actually an actress named Camilla Rhodes whose career trajectory has some very dark forces guiding it.
Considered one of David Lynch’s best films, Mulholland Drive earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director, as well as a win for the Best Director award at Cannes the year of the film’s release.