: The essay provides eccentric behind-the-scenes details, such as Lynch's habit of frequently urinating on trees due to his high coffee intake and relentless work pace.

Contemporary video and written essays frequently analyze the following narrative and psychological pillars of the film: DFW Lost Highway / David Lynch Article - Premiere Sept. 96

: Wallace famously attempts to define the "Lynchian" as a "particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter".

David Foster Wallace (DFW) visited the set of Lost Highway to write a report that evolved into a profound meditation on Lynch’s "Lynchian" style.