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Chris Knipp
01-16-2025, 03:31 PM
R.I.P DAVID LYNCH

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DAVID LYNCH ~ JAN. 21, 1946-JAN. 16, 2025

January 16, 2025: . Lynch's family shared the news of his death on Thursday in a Facebook post. He announced in 2024 he would no longer leave his home after a diagnosis of emphysema from a lifetime of smoking, and concerns about catching COVID-19. He was raarely seen without. cup of coffee and a cigarette.

He is known for ERASERHEAD, THE ELEPHANT MAN, DUNE, TWIN PEAKS, BLUE VELVET, WILD AT HEART, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and INLAND EMPIRE (http://www.filmleaf.net/showthread.php?1851-Ny-Film-Festival-2006&p=16037#post16037) (reviewed on Filmleaf as part of the 2006 NYFF), another iteration of TWIN PEAKS, and numerous short films.

You can find a great first person account of his life and especially his formative time at an art school in a particularly run-down and ratty part of Philadelphia in DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE (https://www.chrisknipp.com/writing/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3633&view=previous)(2016); it is available online via many platforms.

Lynch had a happy, if disjointed childhood (his scientist father moved a lot), and THE ART LIFE, which I found extremely congenial, shows what a sunny disposition he had - counterintuitive, if you have only seen his dark and surreal feature films and his wonderfully creepy and mysterous TV series TWIN PEAKS. Perhaps he could travel so well to those dark and scary places because he didn't have to stay there.

One of our greatest cinematic talents

From Wikipedia:
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980) and the mystery films Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001).[6] His romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera adaptation Dune (1984), the surrealist neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the biographical drama The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental film Inland Empire (2006).

Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC series Twin Peaks (1990–91), for which Lynch was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), and its limited series revival (2017).[7] He also worked as an actor, including his portrayals of FBI agent Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks and director John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), as well as guest roles in TV series such as The Cleveland Show (2010–13), Louie (2012), and Robot Chicken (2020, 2022).

Lynch was a true original, and the strange moods he created are indicated by the coining of an adjective to evoke them, "Lynchian." There was no like unto him.

He was a painter as well as a filmmaker and a writer and he also was an advocate of TM, Trannscendental Meditation, which he practiced twice daily for sone fifty years. He founded the David Lynch Foundation:
The David Lynch Foundation helps to prevent and eradicate the all-pervasive epidemic of trauma and toxic stress among at-risk populations through promoting widespread implementation of the evidence-based Transcendental Meditation® (TM) program in order to improve their health, cognitive capabilities and performance


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FROM DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE