David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, actor, and writer. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Indeed, the surreal and in many cases violent elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences.
Moving around various parts of the United States as a child within his middle class family, Lynch went on to study painting in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films. First, the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet (1986), which was highly critically acclaimed.
Proceeding to create his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1992), he also created a cinematic prequel, Fire Walk With Me (1992), a road movie, Wild at Heart (1990), and a family film, The Straight Story (1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his following films worked on "dream logic" non-linear narrative structures, Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006).
Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for his films The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man. Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as "the most important director of this era". Allmovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", whilst the success of his films have led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
Moving around various parts of the United States as a child within his middle class family, Lynch went on to study painting in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films. First, the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet (1986), which was highly critically acclaimed.
Proceeding to create his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1992), he also created a cinematic prequel, Fire Walk With Me (1992), a road movie, Wild at Heart (1990), and a family film, The Straight Story (1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his following films worked on "dream logic" non-linear narrative structures, Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006).
Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for his films The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man. Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as "the most important director of this era". Allmovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", whilst the success of his films have led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
Known for
WILL THERE BE ANYTHING ELSE?
The Moon's Glow
Anhedonia
Tríptico
Lynch/Oz
The Other Me
This Is Sparklehorse
The Fabelmans
Moby Doc
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
This Is Pop
Meeting the Beatles in India
Faraway Eyes
A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
L'Image Originelle - David Lynch
Ant Head
Curtains Up
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Plankton Salesmen
Lucky
The Nineties
The Black Ghiandola
David Lynch: The Art Life
Girlfriend's Day
Rocksteppy
Along for the Ride
Kitsune
Shadows of Paradise
Blue Velvet Revisited
Psychogenic Fugue
On Meditation
The Reality of Truth
Night Flight: Born Again
This Is Sparklehorse
Rammstein in Amerika
Brand: A Second Coming
ERGO-ROBOTS
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Between Two Worlds
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
The 8th Floor
Duran Duran: Unstaged
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
What Is Cinema?
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Idem Paris
Memory Film
Meditation Creativity Peace
Side by Side
20 Little Films
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
The 3 Rs
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
2012: Time for Change
Brunes et Blondes
Dream #7
Louie
David Wants to Fly
Lady Blue Shanghai Poem: ‘It Holds the Love’
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
The Cleveland Show
Peixe Vermelho
The Way of Samodelkin
Interview Project
Great Directors
La Traversée du désir
Early Experiments
Elvis: Viva Las Vegas
Surveillance
Crítico
Ballerina
To Each His Own Cinema
A Slice of Lynch
Lynch (one)
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
Blue Green
More Things That Happened
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
Steps
Inland Empire
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Edge of Outside
Robot Chicken
What Is It?
BlueBob Egg
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
Leçon de Cinéma
Intervalometer Experiments
Does That Hurt You?
Lamp
Cabin Fever
Un film et son époque
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Rabbits
Mysteries of Love
The Pig Walks
Darkened Room
I Don't Know Jack
DumbLand
Head with Hammer
Eraserhead Stories
Pierre and Sonny Jim
Mulholland Drive
PlayStation 2: The Third Place
Un matin partout dans le monde
The Straight Story
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Family Guy
Mulholland Dr.
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Sunset
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Scene by Scene
Lost Highway
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Lumière and Company
Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
Nadja
Crumb
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
Made in the USA
Hotel Room
On the Air
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
The King of Ads
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Hollywood Mavericks
Wild at Heart
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Zelly & Me
No Frank in Lumberton
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
Blue Velvet
Dune
Destination Dune
The Elephant Man
Heart Beat
Eraserhead
The Amputee
In Pursuit of Treasure
The Grandmother
The Alphabet
Absurd Encounter with Fear
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
The Oscars