New 4K Restoration | Editor Mary Sweeney in Attendance for a Post-Film Q&A Following the Saturday, August 6th at 6:20pm 

The jazz saxophonist, Fred Madison, is married to Renee and they live in a comfortable house. Fred is suspicious of Renee's relationship with her friend Andy. One morning, Renee finds a videotape on the doorstep of their house with footage showing the inside of their house. They call the police, but the two detectives do not find any clues. Fred and Renee go to a party at Andy's house and Fred has a bizarre encounter with a mysterious man that tells him that they have met before and he is at Fred's house. The upset Fred calls Renee and they go back home. The next morning, Fred finds another videotape and when he watches the film, he sees a bloodbath with Renee murdered in bed with him. He is found guilty of murder of first degree and sentenced to the electric chair. While waiting in the death row, he morphs into the efficient mechanic Peter Raymond Dayton and is released from prison, but followed by two detectives. Pete fixes the car of a powerful and dangerous gangster Mr. Eddy, and when he meets his mistress Alice Wakefield, things begin to get even more complicated.

About Mary Sweeney:

Filmmaker Mary Sweeney was a key collaborator with David Lynch as his producer, writer and editor for twenty years. She edited Twin Peaks TV, Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive, for which she was awarded the BAFTA for Best Editing. Sweeney wrote, produced and edited The Straight Story earning Richard Farnsworth an Oscar nomination. Sweeney co-produced and hosts the podcast FLOAT with neuroscientist Dr. Jonas Kaplan, exploring the creative nexus of art and science. Sweeney is the Dino & Martha De Laurentiis Professor of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She was a co-founder and Board Vice President of the Desert X Art Biennial. She’s a Film Expert for two State Department grant programs, and a Fulbright Specialist, travelling to Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Myanmar, Egypt, India to mentor filmmakers

About the 4K Restoration:

LOST HIGHWAY is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.39:1. Supervised by director David Lynch, this new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a Scanity film scanner from the 35 mm original camera negative. The near-field remaster of the original 5.1 soundtrack was made from the 35 mm magnetic track and mixsupervised by Lynch and rerecording mixer Ronald Eng.