Editing Mulholland Drive (film) (section)

==Release and reception==
''Mulholland Drive'' premiered at the [[2001 Cannes Film Festival]] in May to major critical acclaim. Lynch was awarded the [[Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Director prize]] at the festival, sharing it with co-winner [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen]] for ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]''.<ref name="cannes">{{cite web |title=Festival de Cannes – From 15 to 26 may 2012 |work=[[Cannes Film Festival|festival-cannes.fr]] |year=2001 |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2001/awardCompetition.html |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514140251/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2001/awardCompetition.html |archive-date=May 14, 2013 }}</ref> It drew positive reviews from many critics and some of the strongest audience reactions of Lynch's career.

The film was publicized with cryptic posters bearing the abbreviation "Mulholland Dr."

===Box office===
[[Universal Pictures]] released ''Mulholland Drive'' theatrically in 66 theaters in the United States on October 12, 2001, grossing $587,591 over its opening weekend. It eventually expanded to its widest release of 247 theaters, ultimately grossing $7,220,243 at the U.S. box office. [[TVA Films]] released the film theatrically in Canada on October 26, 2001. In other territories outside the United States, the film grossed $12,897,096, for a worldwide total of $20,117,339 on the film's original release, plus much smaller sums on later re-releases.<ref name="mojo">{{cite web|title=Mulholland Drive (2001) – Box Office Mojo |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mulhollanddrive.htm |work=Box Office Mojo |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021155322/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mulhollanddrive.htm |archive-date=October 21, 2012}}</ref>

===Reception and legacy===
Since its release, ''Mulholland Drive'' has received "both some of the harshest epithets and some of the most lavish praise in recent cinematic history".<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lentzner | first1 = Jay R. | last2 = Ross | first2 = Donald R. | year = 2005| title = The Dreams That Blister Sleep: Latent Content and Cinematic Form in Mulholland Drive | journal = American Imago | volume =62| pages =101–123| doi = 10.1353/aim.2005.0016 | s2cid = 142931285 }}</ref> On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 262 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "David Lynch's dreamlike and mysterious ''Mulholland Drive'' is a twisty neo-noir with an unconventional structure that features a mesmerizing performance from Naomi Watts as a woman on the dark fringes of Hollywood."<ref name="RT">{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mulholland_dr/ |title=Mulholland Drive (2001)|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=September 12, 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128203125/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mulholland_dr |archive-date=November 28, 2015}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/mulholland-dr|title=''Mulholland Drive'' reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=January 27, 2018|archive-date=May 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515151941/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/mulholland-dr|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', who had often been dismissive of Lynch's work, awarded the film four stars out of four, writing, "David Lynch has been working toward ''Mulholland Drive'' all of his career, and now that he's arrived there I forgive him for ''[[Wild at Heart (film)|Wild at Heart]]'' and even ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]''. At last his experiment doesn't shatter the test tubes. The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood [[film noir]], and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it".<ref name="ebert"/> In ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Stephen Holden]] wrote that the film "ranks alongside [[Federico Fellini|Fellini]]'s ''[[8½]]'' and other [[auteur]]ist fantasias as a monumental self-reflection" and added: "Looked at lightly, it is the grandest and silliest cinematic carnival to come along in quite some time&nbsp;... on a more serious level, its investigation into the power of movies pierces a void from which you can hear the screams of a ravenous demon whose appetites can never be slaked."<ref name="holden" /> Edward Guthmann of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' called it "exhilarating&nbsp;... for its dreamlike images and fierce, frequently reckless imagination" and added, "there's a mesmerizing quality to its languid pace, its sense of foreboding and its lost-in-time atmosphere&nbsp;... it holds us, spellbound and amused, for all of its loony and luscious, exasperating 146&nbsp;minutes [and] proves that Lynch is in solid form—and still an expert at pricking our nerves".<ref>{{cite news|last=Guthmann |first=Edward |title=Lynch's Hollyweird: 'Mulholland Drive' fantasia shows director's bizarre humor, originality |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=October 12, 2001 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/12/DD230587.DTL |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321161144/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2001%2F10%2F12%2FDD230587.DTL |archive-date=March 21, 2012}}</ref>

In ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Peter Travers]] observed, "''Mulholland Drive'' makes movies feel alive again. This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of a sorry-ass year. For visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore's lip gloss, there's nothing like this baby anywhere."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Travers |title=Mulholland Drive |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 11, 2001 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947635/review/5947636/mulholland_drive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104172013/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947635/review/5947636/mulholland_drive |archive-date=November 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 17, 2012}}</ref> [[J. Hoberman]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' stated, "This voluptuous phantasmagoria&nbsp;... is certainly Lynch's strongest movie since ''Blue Velvet'' and maybe ''[[Eraserhead]]''. The very things that failed him in the bad-boy rockabilly debacle of ''Lost Highway''—the atmosphere of free-floating menace, pointless transmigration of souls, provocatively dropped plot stitches, gimcrack alternate universes—are here brilliantly rehabilitated."<ref name="hoberman" /> [[A. O. Scott]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that, while some might consider the plot an "offense against narrative order", the film is "an intoxicating liberation from sense, with moments of feeling all the more powerful for seeming to emerge from the murky night world of the unconscious".<ref>{{cite news|last=Scott |first=A. O. |author-link=A. O. Scott |date=May 17, 2001 |title=Critic's Notebook; Shoving Through the Crowd to Taste Lyrical Nostalgia |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=E1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/17/movies/critic-s-notebook-shoving-through-the-crowd-to-taste-lyrical-nostalgia.html |access-date=August 6, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110215459/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/17/movies/critic-s-notebook-shoving-through-the-crowd-to-taste-lyrical-nostalgia.html |archive-date=November 10, 2012}}</ref>

Among detractors, [[Rex Reed]] of ''[[The New York Observer]]'' said that it was the worst film he had seen in 2001, calling it "a load of moronic and incoherent garbage".<ref>{{cite news|last=Reed |first=Rex |date=October 14, 2001 |title=A Festival of Flops |newspaper=[[The New York Observer]] |url=http://www.observer.com/node/45088 |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830121443/http://www.observer.com/node/45088 |archive-date=August 30, 2010}}</ref> In ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'', Peter Rainer observed, "Although I like it more than some of his other dreamtime freakfests, it's still a pretty moribund ride&nbsp;... Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people, for outcasts, and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ranier |first=Peter |date=April 8, 2008 |title=You Don't Know Jack |journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/5277/ |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018083115/http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/5277/ |archive-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref> In ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Desson Howe called it "an extended mood opera, if you want to put an arty label on incoherence".<ref>{{cite news|last=Howe |first=Desson |date=October 12, 2001 |title='Mulholland': A Dead-End Street |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/10/12/AR2005033117622.html |page=T43 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305070946/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/10/12/AR2005033117622.html |archive-date=March 5, 2016}}</ref> [[Todd McCarthy]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' found much to praise—"Lynch cranks up the levels of bizarre humor, dramatic incident and genuine mystery with a succession of memorable scenes, some of which rank with his best"—but also noted, "the film jumps off the solid ground of relative narrative coherence into Lynchian fantasyland&nbsp;... for the final 45&nbsp;minutes, Lynch is in mind-twisting mode that presents a form of alternate reality with no apparent meaning or logical connection to what came before. Although such tactics are familiar from ''Twin Peaks'' and elsewhere, the sudden switcheroo to head games is disappointing because, up to this point, Lynch had so wonderfully succeeded in creating genuine involvement."<ref name="mccarthy">{{cite news |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |date=May 16, 2001 |title=''Mulholland Drive'' |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117798101.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=Mulholland+Drive |access-date=August 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219094651/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117798101.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=Mulholland+Drive |archive-date=December 19, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[James Berardinelli]] also criticized it, saying: "Lynch cheats his audience, pulling the rug out from under us. He throws everything into the mix with the lone goal of confusing us. Nothing makes any sense because it's not supposed to make any sense. There's no purpose or logic to events. Lynch is playing a big practical joke on us."<ref>{{cite web|last=Berardinelli |first=James |year=2001 |url=http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/m/mulholland_drive.html |title=Mulholland Drive |publisher=reelviews.net |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224235025/http://www.reelviews.net/movies/m/mulholland_drive.html |archive-date=February 24, 2012}}</ref> Film theorist [[Ray Carney]] notes, "You wouldn't need all the emotional back-flips and narrative trap doors if you had anything to say. You wouldn't need doppelgangers and shadow-figures if your characters had souls."<ref>{{cite web |last=Carney |first=Ray |url=http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/newsevents/movsked.shtml|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224413/http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/newsevents/movsked.shtml|url-status=live |title=Mulholland Drive and "puzzle films" |publisher=[[Boston University]]|year=2004}}</ref>

Later, ''Mulholland Drive'' was named the best film of the decade by the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Kay |first=Jeremy |date=January 12, 2010 |url=http://www.screendaily.com/awards/other-awards/la-critics-name-mulholland-dr-film-of-the-decade/5009576.article |title=LA critics name Mulholland Drive Film of the Decade |work=[[Screen International]] |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918141506/http://www.screendaily.com/awards/other-awards/la-critics-name-mulholland-dr-film-of-the-decade/5009576.article |archive-date=September 18, 2012}}</ref> ''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]'',<ref>{{cite web|year=2010 |url=http://www.cahiersducinema.net/PALMARES-2000.html |title=Palmares 2000 |publisher=[[Cahiers du cinéma|cahiersducinema.net]] |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426001455/http://www.cahiersducinema.net/PALMARES-2000.html |archive-date=April 26, 2012}}</ref> [[IndieWire]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Eugene |date=January 22, 2010 |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2009/12/summer-hours-wins-indiewire-09-critics-poll-mulholland-dr-is-best-of-decade-246094/ |title="Summer Hours" Wins indieWIRE '09 Critics Poll; "Mulholland Dr." is Best of Decade |publisher=[[indieWIRE|indiewire.com]] |access-date=August 17, 2012 |archive-date=August 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831122009/http://www.indiewire.com/2009/12/summer-hours-wins-indiewire-09-critics-poll-mulholland-dr-is-best-of-decade-246094/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Slant Magazine]]'',<ref>{{cite web|date=February 7, 2010 |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/best-of-the-aughts-film/216/page_10 |title=Best of the Aughts: Film |work=[[Slant Magazine]] |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930182653/http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/best-of-the-aughts-film/216/page_10 |archive-date=September 30, 2012}}</ref> ''Reverse Shot'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reverseshot.com/article/1_mulholland_drive |title=Best of the Decade #1: Mulholland Drive |publisher=reverseshot.com |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717113142/http://www.reverseshot.com/article/1_mulholland_drive |archive-date=July 17, 2012}}</ref> ''[[The Village Voice]]''<ref>{{cite web|year=2010 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/filmpoll/index/best_of_decade/2009 |title=Best of Decade |work=The Village Voice |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020161911/http://www.villagevoice.com/filmpoll/index/best_of_decade/2009/ |archive-date=October 20, 2012}}</ref> and ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out New York]]'', who asked rhetorically in a reference to the [[September 11 attacks]], "Can there be another movie that speaks as resonantly—if unwittingly—to the awful moment that marked our decade?&nbsp;... ''Mulholland Drive'' is the monster behind the diner; it's the self-delusional dream turned into nightmare."<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/80947/the-tony-top-50-movies-of-the-decade/6.html |title=The TONY top 50 movies of the decade |journal=[[Time Out New York]] |issue=739 |date=November 26, 2009 |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013063136/http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/80947/the-tony-top-50-movies-of-the-decade/6.html |archive-date=October 13, 2010}}</ref> It was also voted best of the decade in a ''[[Film Comment]]'' poll of international "critics, programmers, academics, filmmakers and others",<ref>{{cite journal|year=2010 |url=http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/jf10/best00s.htm |title=Film Comment's End-of-Decade Critics' Poll |journal=Film Comment |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608121039/http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/jf10/best00s.htm |archive-date=June 8, 2012}}</ref> and by the magazine's readers.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2010 |url=http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/ma10/readersbest09.htm |title=Extended Readers' Poll Results |journal=Film Comment |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306014815/http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/ma10/readersbest09.htm |archive-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref> It appeared on lists among the ten best films of the decade, coming in third according to ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/dec/30/best-films-noughties-mulholland-drive |title=Best films of the noughties No 3: Mulholland Drive |work=The Guardian |date=December 30, 2009 |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908190657/http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/dec/30/best-films-noughties-mulholland-drive |archive-date=September 8, 2013}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' critic Peter Travers,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peters |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/8602/49002/49030 |title=Mulholland Drive – Rolling Stone Movies – Lists |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=December 9, 2009 |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208160024/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/8602/49002/49030 |archive-date=December 8, 2010}}</ref> the Canadian Press,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journalpioneer.com/Living/Technologies/2009-12-21/article-1395020/Memento,-Mulholland-Drive-among-Canadian-Press-film-favourites-of-2000s/1 |title='Memento,' 'Mulholland Drive' among Canadian Press film favourites of 2000 |publisher=journalpioneer.com |date=December 20, 2009 |access-date=August 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713122449/http://www.journalpioneer.com/Living/Technologies/2009-12-21/article-1395020/Memento,-Mulholland-Drive-among-Canadian-Press-film-favourites-of-2000s/1 |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Access Hollywood]]'' critic [[Scott Mantz]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/moviemantz-best-movies-of-the-decade_article_27327 |title=MovieMantz: Best Movies Of The Decade |publisher=accesshollywood.com |date=January 5, 2010 |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001190420/http://www.accesshollywood.com/moviemantz-best-movies-of-the-decade_article_27327 |archive-date=October 1, 2012}}</ref> and eighth on critic [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]]'s list.<ref>{{cite web|title=Best of the Decade Top Ten |year=2002 |work=bventertainment.go.com |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url=http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/specials/bestofthedecade/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100414062922/http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/specials/bestofthedecade/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 14, 2010}}</ref> In 2010 it was named the second best [[Art film|arthouse film]] ever by ''The Guardian''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/drama-arthouse-25?intcmp=239 |title=The 25 best arthouse films of all time: the full list |date=October 20, 2010 |work=The Guardian |access-date=March 30, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005054138/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/drama-arthouse-25?intcmp=239 |archive-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> The film was voted as the 11th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' writers and editors with the primary criterion of communicating an inherent truth about the L.A. experience.<ref>{{cite news|last=Boucher |first=Geoff |date=August 31, 2008 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-25films31-2008aug31,0,70218.htmlstory |title=The 25 best L.A. films of the last 25 years |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825161524/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/31/entertainment/ca-25films31 |archive-date=August 25, 2015}}</ref> ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine placed ''Mulholland Drive'' at number 391 on their list of the five hundred greatest films ever.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/500/21.asp |title=The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015033153/http://www.empireonline.com/500/21.asp |archive-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref> It has also been ranked number 38 on the [[Channel 4]] program ''[[50 Films to See Before You Die]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=161521&page=2 |title=Film4's 50 Films To See Before You Die |publisher=[[Channel 4]] |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005012155/http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=161521&page=2 |archive-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> In 2011, online magazine ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' named ''Mulholland Drive'' in its piece on "New Classics" as the most enduring film since 2000.<ref>{{cite web|date=November 7, 2011 |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/new_classics/2011/10/the_new_classics_the_most_enduring_books_shows_movies_and_ideas_since_2000_.single.html |title=The New Classics: The most enduring books, shows, movies, and ideas since 2000. |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818120850/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/new_classics/2011/10/the_new_classics_the_most_enduring_books_shows_movies_and_ideas_since_2000_.single.html |archive-date=August 18, 2012}}</ref> Ebert added ''Mulholland Drive'' to his canon of "Great Movies": "David Lynch loves movies, genres, archetypes and obligatory shots. ''Mulholland Drive'' employs the conventions of film noir in a pure form. One useful definition of noirs is that they're about characters who have committed a crime or a sin, are immersed with guilt, and fear they're getting what they deserve. Another is that they've done nothing wrong, but it nevertheless certainly appears as if they have. The second describes [[Hitchcock]]'s favorite plot, the Innocent Man Wrongly Accused. The first describes the central dilemma of ''Mulholland Dr.'' Yet it floats in an uneasy psychic space, never defining who sinned. The film evokes the feeling of noir guilt while never attaching to anything specific. A neat trick. Pure cinema."<ref>[[Roger Ebert]], "[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-mulholland-dr-2001 Mulholland Dr. Movie Review & Film Summary (2001)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225090948/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-mulholland-dr-2001 |date=February 25, 2020 }}," ''[[RogerEbert.com]]'', November 11, 2012.</ref>

In the [[British Film Institute]]'s 2012 ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' poll, ''Mulholland Drive'' was ranked the 28th greatest film ever made, and in the 2022 poll, its ranking rose to 8th.<ref name="Christie 2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time|title=The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time|last=Christie|first=Ian|year=2012|publisher=[[British Film Institute|bfi.org.uk]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301135739/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time|archive-date=March 1, 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=August 17, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Critics' top 100">{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/critics/|title=Critics' top 100|work=bfi.org.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026034922/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/critics|archive-date=October 26, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=March 13, 2016}}</ref> Having received 40 critics' votes, it is one of only two films from the 21st century to be included in the top 50, along with 2000's ''[[In the Mood for Love]]''. In a 2015 [[BBC]] poll, it was ranked 21st among all American films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films |title=The 100 greatest American films |publisher=BBC |date=July 20, 2015 |access-date=October 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916105535/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films |archive-date=September 16, 2016}}</ref> The following year, ''Mulholland Drive'' was named as the [[100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century|greatest film of the 21st century]] in a poll conducted by [[BBC|BBC Culture]].<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37164880|title=Mulholland Drive tops BBC Culture greatest film poll|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823222718/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37164880|archive-date=August 23, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=August 23, 2016|date=August 23, 2016}}</ref> In July 2021, the [[4K resolution|4K]] restoration version of ''Mulholland Drive'' was shown in the Cannes Classics section at the [[2021 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thefilmstage.com/2021-cannes-classic-lineup-includes-orson-welles-powell-and-pressburger-tilda-swinton-more/ |title=2021 Cannes Classics Lineup Includes Orson Welles, Powell and Pressburger, Tilda Swinton & More |work=The Film Stage |date=June 23, 2021 |access-date=June 25, 2021 |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624230214/https://thefilmstage.com/2021-cannes-classic-lineup-includes-orson-welles-powell-and-pressburger-tilda-swinton-more/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Festival de Cannes">{{cite web |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2021/restoring-mulholland-drive-a-glimpse-behind-the-scenes-of-a-stunning-makeover/ |title=Restoring Mulholland Drive: a glimpse behind the scenes of a stunning makeover|work=Festival de Cannes |date=June 23, 2021 |access-date=July 22, 2024 |archive-date=July 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722141204/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2021/restoring-mulholland-drive-a-glimpse-behind-the-scenes-of-a-stunning-makeover/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Home media===
The film was released on [[VHS]] and [[DVD]] by Universal Studios Home Video on April 9, 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/Product_article.cfm?article_id=2603|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020318095141/http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/Product_article.cfm?article_id=2603|title=MulhollandDrive Speeds To Video|website=hive4media.com|archive-date=March 18, 2002|date=February 14, 2002|access-date=September 10, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> in the United States and Canada, with few special features. It was released without chapter stops, a feature that Lynch objects to on the grounds that it "demystifies" the film.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rafferty |first=Terrence |author-link=Terrence Rafferty |title=Everybody Gets a Cut |date=May 4, 2003 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E5D9133DF937A35756C0A9659C8B63&pagewanted=4 |quote=[Lynch] has in recent years refused to allow voice-over commentary or scene access on the DVDs of his films. "The film is the thing", he tells me. "For me, the world you go into in a film is so delicate — it can be broken so easily. It's so tender. And it's essential to hold that world together, to keep it safe." He says he thinks "it's crazy to go in and fiddle with the film", considers [[audio commentary|voice-overs]] "theater of the absurd" and is concerned that too many DVD extras can "demystify" a film. "Do not demystify", he declares, with ardor. "When you know too much, you can never see the film the same way again. It's ruined for you for good. All the magic leaks out, and it's putrefied." |access-date=August 10, 2012 }}</ref>

Nick Coccellato of Eccentric Cinema gave the film a rating of nine out of ten and the DVD release an eight out of ten, saying that the lack of special features "only adds to the mystery the film itself possesses, in abundance".<ref name="EC">{{Cite web |last=Coccellato |first=Nick |work=Eccentric Cinema |editor-last=Linsdey |editor-first=Brian |title=MULHOLLAND DR. |url=http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies2008/mulholland_dr.htm |date=June 4, 2008 |access-date=February 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324022356/http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies2008/mulholland_dr.htm |archive-date=March 24, 2013 }}</ref> Special features in later versions and overseas versions of the DVD include a Lynch interview at the Cannes Film Festival and highlights of the debut of the film at Cannes.

[[Optimum Releasing|Optimum Home Entertainment]] released ''Mulholland Drive'' to the [[Blu-ray Disc#Region codes|European market]] on [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-ray]] as part of its StudioCanal Collection on September 13, 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.studiocanalcollection.com/en/collection/show/19-Mulholland_Drive |title=StudioCanal Collection – Mulholland Drive |publisher=[[StudioCanal|studiocanalcollection.com]] |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015054647/http://www.studiocanalcollection.com/en/collection/show/19-Mulholland_Drive |archive-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref> New special features exclusive to this release include: an introduction by Thierry Jousse; ''In the Blue Box'', a retrospective documentary featuring directors and critics; two making-of documentaries: ''On the Road to Mulholland Drive'' and ''Back to Mulholland Drive'', and several interviews with people involved in making the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blu-raydefinition.com/reviews/mulholland-drive-studiocanal-collectionuk-blu-ray-review.html |title=Mulholland Drive StudioCanal Collection UK Blu-ray Review |last=DuHamel |first=Brandon |work=TheaterByte |date=August 31, 2010 |publisher=blu-raydefinition.com |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309003848/http://www.blu-raydefinition.com/reviews/mulholland-drive-studiocanal-collectionuk-blu-ray-review.html |archive-date=March 9, 2012}}</ref> It is the second David Lynch film in this line of Blu-rays after [[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|''The Elephant Man'']].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studiocanalcollection.com/en/collection/show/8-The_Elephant_Man |title=StudioCanal Collection – The Elephant Man |publisher=studiocanalcollection.com |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726003100/http://www.studiocanalcollection.com/en/collection/show/8-The_Elephant_Man |archive-date=July 26, 2012 }}</ref>

[[The Criterion Collection]] has released several versions of ''Mulholland Drive''. In October 2015, it released a 2K digital transfer of a restoration of the film on Blu-Ray and DVD,<ref name="Festival de Cannes"/> along with interviews, portions of the 2005 edition of Chris Rodley's book ''[[Lynch on Lynch]]'', and other special features.<ref name=October>{{cite news |title=Criterion Announces October Titles |url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17183 |access-date=July 19, 2015 |publisher=Blu-ray.com |date=July 15, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718013532/http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17183 |archive-date=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mulholland Dr. (2001) – The Criterion Collection |url=https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr |website=The Criterion Collection |access-date=July 19, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904163336/https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr |archive-date=September 4, 2015}}</ref> It was Lynch's second film to receive a Criterion Collection release on DVD and Blu-ray, following ''Eraserhead'' in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead |title=Eraserhead (1997) – The Criterion Collection |publisher=[[Janus Films]] |access-date=June 17, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620202718/http://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead |archive-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref> ''Mulholland Drive'' was part of Criterion's first batch of [[4K resolution|4K]] Ultra HD releases in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Machkovech |first1=Sam |date=August 11, 2021 |title=Criterion announces support for 4K UHD Blu-ray, beginning with Citizen Kane |url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/criterion-announces-support-for-4k-uhd-blu-ray-beginning-with-citizen-kane/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203053751/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/criterion-announces-support-for-4k-uhd-blu-ray-beginning-with-citizen-kane/ |archive-date=February 3, 2022 |access-date=August 12, 2021 |work=Ars Technica |language=en-us}}</ref> Although the Blu-ray release was under license from [[Focus Features]] and [[Universal Studios Home Entertainment]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/mulhollanddrblu2.jpg |title=Mulholland Dr. Packaging Photos |website=criterionforum.org |access-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302154146/https://www.criterionforum.org/img/packaging/mulhollanddrblu2.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Galloway |first=Chris |date=2015-10-22 |title=Mulholland Dr. |url=https://www.criterionforum.org/Review/mulholland-dr-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray |website=CriterionForum.org |access-date=February 25, 2024 |archive-date=February 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225094818/https://www.criterionforum.org/Review/mulholland-dr-the-criterion-collection-blu-ray |url-status=live }}</ref> Criterion's parent company [[Janus Films]] subsequently acquired the distribution rights.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.janusfilms.com/films/1839 |title=Mulholland Dr. |publisher=[[Janus Films]] |access-date=February 25, 2024 |archive-date=February 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225094819/https://www.janusfilms.com/films/1839 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Awards and honors===
At the [[74th Academy Awards]], Lynch was nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]].<ref name="oscars">{{cite web|title=Nominees & Winners for the 74th Academy Awards: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-present/74nominees.html |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907043052/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-present/74nominees.html |archive-date=September 7, 2014}}</ref> At the [[59th Golden Globe Awards]], it was nominated in four categories: [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Picture (Drama)]], [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]].<ref name="goldenglobes">{{cite web|url=http://thegoldenglobes.com/welcome.html?yearz/G-2001.html |title=The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards|publisher=TheGoldenGlobes.com |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226043245/http://thegoldenglobes.com/welcome.html?yearz%2FG-2001.html |archive-date=February 26, 2012}}</ref> It was named Best Picture by the [[New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle]] at the [[2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards]] and [[Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture|Online Film Critics Society]]. [[Mary Sweeney]] also won the [[BAFTA Award for Best Editing]] for her work on the film.

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+Accolades for ''Mulholland Drive''
|-
! scope="col"| Award
! scope="col"| Category
! scope="col"| Recipient
! scope="col"| Result
|-
|[[American Film Institute Awards 2001|AFI Awards]]
!scope="row"| Composer of the Year
| Angelo Badalamenti<ref name="afi" />
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[César Awards]]
!scope="row"| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| David Lynch<ref name="Interviews">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dTCkwmvEyIC&q=Mulholland+Drive+C%C3%A9sar+Award&pg=PR18|title=David Lynch: Interviews|last=Barney|first=Richard A.|date=2009|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=9781604732368|access-date=March 3, 2020}}</ref>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[ALMA Award]]s
!scope="row"| Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
| [[Laura Harring]]<ref name="alma">{{cite news |date=May 20, 2002 |title='Pinero, ' Rodriguez Receive ALMA Awards |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=F.7 }}</ref>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Chicago Film Critics Association|Chicago Film Critics Awards]]
!scope="row"| [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Naomi Watts<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58 |title=Chicago Film Critics Awards&nbsp;– 1998–2007 |publisher=[[Chicago Film Critics Association|chicagofilmcritics.org]] |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515203059/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58 |archive-date=May 15, 2012}}</ref>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[17th Independent Spirit Awards|Independent Spirit Awards]]
!scope="row"| [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| [[Peter Deming]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-24-me-indie24-story.html |title='Memento' Makes Memories at the Independent Spirit Awards |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=November 29, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130040859/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/24/local/me-indie24 |archive-date=November 30, 2016 }}</ref>
| {{won}}
|-
| scope="row" | [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]
!scope="row"| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| David Lynch<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lafca.net/years/2001.html |title=LAFCA |publisher=[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association|lafca.net]] |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303101337/http://www.lafca.net/years/2001.html |archive-date=March 3, 2012 }}</ref>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics]]
!scope="row"| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Naomi Watts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2002/01/07/nsfc_awards/ |title="Mulholland Drive" takes best picture in critics' awards |last=Taylor |first=Charles |date=January 7, 2002 |work=Salon |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115230017/http://www.salon.com/2002/01/07/nsfc_awards/ |archive-date=November 15, 2013}}</ref>
| {{won}}
|}