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Who is David Lynch?

by Ratan Srivastava
David Lynch

David Lynch is indeed a filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, as well as writer from the United States. Lynch, who got an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Director as well as twice won the César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as a Golden Lion for lifetime accomplishment at the Venice Film Festival.

In 2007, The Guardian assembled a panel of reviewers who said that “no one could dispute the conclusion that David Lynch is by far the most influential filmmaker of the contemporary age,” while AllMovie dubbed him “the Renaissance man of modern American cinema.” Pauline Kael, a movie critic, dubbed him “the first popular surrealist” because of his work.

Before beginning to make short films in the late 1960s, Lynch studied painting. His debut feature-length picture, the surrealist Eraserhead (1977), was a midnight cinema hit, as well as he went on to helm The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), and Blue Velvet after that. Lynch’s next project was the two-season murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–91), which he co-created with Mark Frost. During this time, he also directed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the road movie Wild at Heart (1990), as well as the family picture The Straight Story.

Three of his later films, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (2001), as well as Inland Empire, took a step closer to surrealism by employing dream logic non-linear narrative patterns.

In 2017, Lynch and Frost reunited for such third season of Showtime’s Twin Peaks. Every episode was co-written as well as directed by Lynch, who also repeated his role as Gordon Cole onscreen.

Lynch’s other artistic pursuits include his work as just a musician, which includes the studio albums BlueBOB, Crazy Clown Time (2011), and The Big Dream (2013), as well as music as well as sound design for such a number of his movies; painting and photography; writing the Books Images (1994), Catching the Big Fish (2006), Room to Dream (2018), as well as numerous other literary works; and directing several music videos (including the video for Moby’s “Shot in the Back of the Head”).

He launched the David Lynch Foundation in 2005 to support the teaching of Transcendental Meditation (TM) in schools, and this has subsequently expanded its scope to include other at-risk groups such as the homeless, veterans, as well as refugees.

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