Mulholland Drive

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is structured as a dream that ruptures into its own reality midway through — Hollywood mythology weaponized against Hollywood. It is the film most often cited by critics as the best of the 21st century, and the one viewers most often watch twice trying to understand.

• Originally shot as a TV pilot; ABC passed and Lynch reshot the ending for cinema.
• Naomi Watts auditioned for what she thought was a TV role.
• The diner scene was Lynch's first time directing in that space.
• The famous "Silencio" scene was performed live with no playback.
• Lynch refuses to explain the film and provides only ten clues.

• "This is the girl."
• "It is all an illusion."
• "Silencio."
• "I just came here from Deep River, Ontario."
• "There is no band."