Justus Nieland

Mulholland Drive (2001), David Lynch’s hallucinatory noir, is one of cinema’s most original and despairing portraits of Hollywood’s dream factory. A backstudio film, Mulholland Drive follows bright-eyed actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), who arrives in Los Angeles and becomes caught in a mysterious conspiracy of power with Rita (Laura Harring), an alluring amnesiac. Justus Nieland’s timely study approaches Mulholland Drive...