I N WHICH NOVELIST David Foster Wallace VISITS THE SET OF D AVID L YNCH'S NEW MOVIE AND FINDS THE DIRECTOR BOTH grandly admirable AND sort of nuts.

David Lynch

Keeps His Head by

David Foster Wallace

1996



US Premiere magazine, September 1996.

An extended version of the essay can be found in David Foster Wallace' book "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" David Foster Wallace is the author of Broom of the System, Girl With Curious Hair, and Infinite Jest.

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1. WHAT MOVIE THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT

DAVID LYNCH's Lost Highway, written by Lynch and Barry Gifford, featuring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, and Balthazar Getty. Financed by CIBY 2000, France. An October Films release. Copyright 1996, Asymmetrical Productions, Lynch's company, whose offices are near Lynch's house in the Hollywood Hills and whose logo, designed by Lynch, is a very cool graphic that looks like this:

Lost Highway is set in Los Angeles and the desertish terrain immediately inland from it. Principal shooting goes from December '95 through February '96. Lynch normally runs a closed set, with redundant security arrangements and an almost Masonic air of secrecy around his movies' productions, but I am allowed onto the Lost Highway set on 8-10 January 1996.1