



Terrified, they return to Betty's apartment, where Rita disguises herself with a blonde wig. In the bedroom, they find the body of a woman who has been dead for several days. They go to the neighbor's apartment and break in when no one answers the door. Betty and Rita go to Diane Selwyn's apartment, where a neighbor answers the door and tells them she has switched apartments with Diane. Betty locks eyes with Adam, but she flees before she can meet him, saying she is late to meet a friend. When Camilla Rhodes auditions with the song " I've Told Every Little Star", Adam capitulates to the mob by casting her. A casting agent takes her to a soundstage where a film called The Sylvia North Story, directed by Adam, is being cast. Betty goes to an audition, where her performance is highly praised. They find Diane Selwyn in the phone book and call her, but she does not answer. While trying to learn more about Rita's accident, Betty and Rita go to Winkie's and are served by a waitress named Diane, which causes Rita to remember the name "Diane Selwyn".
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Meanwhile, a bungling hitman attempts to steal a book full of phone numbers and leaves three people dead. When the mobsters withdraw his line of credit, Adam arranges to meet a mysterious cowboy, who cryptically urges him to cast Camilla for his own good. Adam refuses and returns home to find his wife Lorraine cheating on him. Elsewhere, director Adam Kesher has his film commandeered by mobsters, who insist he cast an unknown actress named Camilla Rhodes as the lead. When they investigate, the figure appears, causing the man who had the nightmare to collapse in fright. To help the woman remember her identity, Betty looks in Rita's purse, where she finds a large amount of money and an unusual blue key.Īt a diner called Winkie's, a man tells another about a nightmare in which he dreamt of encountering a horrific figure behind the diner. Betty is startled to find the woman, who has amnesia and calls herself "Rita" after seeing a poster for the film Gilda starring Rita Hayworth. Later that morning, an aspiring actress named Betty Elms arrives at the apartment, which is normally occupied by her Aunt Ruth. Injured and dazed, she makes her way down into Los Angeles by foot and sneaks into an apartment. It was ranked 8th in the 2022 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the best films ever made and topped a 2016 BBC poll of the best films since 2000.Ī dark-haired woman is the sole survivor of a car crash on Mulholland Drive, a winding road high in the Hollywood Hills. Mulholland Drive is often regarded as one of Lynch's finest works and as one of the greatest films of all time. The film boosted Watts' Hollywood profile considerably, and was the last feature film to star veteran Hollywood actress Ann Miller. Lynch also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Mulholland Drive earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director Award) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, sharing the prize with Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There. He gave the film the tagline "A love story in the city of dreams". Lynch has declined to offer an explanation of his intentions for the narrative, leaving audiences, critics, and cast members to speculate on what transpires. The half-pilot, half-feature result, along with Lynch's characteristic surrealist style, has left the general meaning of the film's events open to interpretation. Lynch then provided an ending to the project, making it a feature film. After viewing Lynch's cut, however, television executives rejected it. The American-French co-production was originally conceived as a television pilot, and a large portion of the film was shot in 1999 with Lynch's plan to keep it open-ended for a potential series. The story follows several other vignettes and characters, including a Hollywood film director (Theroux). It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), newly arrived in Los Angeles, who meets and befriends an amnesiac woman (Harring) recovering from a car accident. Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Mark Pellegrino, and Robert Forster.
