Special Admission: $10; $8, BAM/PFA members; $6, students. We gratefully acknowledge David Lynch, Barry Gifford, Mary Sweeney, Bingham Ray, Tom Sternberg and October Films for their generous support of the Pacific Film Archive.Set in a city suspiciously like Los Angeles but which is actually a place of Lynch's own imagining, Lost Highway, like L.A., is both blazingly modern and resolutely retro in look and feel. Based on a screenplay by Lynch and novelist Barry Gifford, Lost Highway draws its plot, or rather plots, from classic film noirs, filled with desperate men and faithless women, expensive cars and cheap motels. From this inventory Lynch fashions two parallel stories. One is about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) who is tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair and suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other concerns a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that both women are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette) and may, in fact, be the same woman. The men are also connected by a mysterious turn of events that calls into question their very identities. Unfolding with the logic of a dream which can be interpreted but never explained, Lost Highway is punctuated by a series of occurrences that simply can't have occurred. As postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.