Mulholland Drive

David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman ( Laura Elena Harring ) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment with no idea of where or who she is. As it turns out, the apartment is home to an elderly woman who is out of town, and is allowing her niece Betty ( Naomi Watts ) to stay there; Betty is a small-town girl from Canada who wants to be an actress, and her aunt was able to arrange an audition with a film director for her. Betty befriends the injured woman, who begins calling herself "Rita" after seeing a poster of Rita Hayworth . While Betty's audition impresses a casting agent, and she catches the eye of hotshot director Adam Kesher ( Justin Theroux ), Kesher's producers and moneymen insist with no small vehemence that he instead cast a woman named Camilla Rhodes. As Rita attempts to put the pieces of her life back together, she pulls the name Diane Selwyn from her memory; Rita thinks it could be her real name, but when she and Betty find a listing for Diane Selwyn and visit her apartment, they discover the latest victim of a mysterious killer who is eluding police detective Harry McKnight ( Robert Forster ). Rita's emotional identity soon takes a left turn, and it turns out that neither woman is quite who she once appeared to be. David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as the pilot film for a television series; after the ABC television network rejected the pilot and declined to air it, the French production film StudioCanal took over the project, and Lynch reshot and re-edited the material into a theatrical feature. The resulting version of Mulholland Drive premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival , where David Lynch shared Best Director honors with Joel Coen . — Mark Deming

To celebrate the [Halloween] season, The New Yorker has posted its Five Scariest Movies Ever. Writer Ben Greenman has selected some interesting, somewhat surprising choices for his top five.
Among other things, Greenman's list made me want to watch a movie I had always neglected, the 2001 film Mulholland Drive from David Lynch. The Winkie's scene alone is really intense. As the article mentions, Retrocrush.com picked that one as the scariest moment in movie history

Here is the list along with a few clips. Check out the article for the full commentary. And, you'll certainly want to visit some of these on a chilly Fall evening like tonight.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• The Body Snatcher (1945)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
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