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Vale: David Lynch

US filmmaker, writer and artist, best known for Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, has died.

US filmmaker, writer and artist David Lynch, best known for Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, has died aged 78.

His family confirmed the news via his Facebook page.

“There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” the statement said.

“But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'”

Lynch was known for his innovative filmmaking, featuring visually stunning, disturbing and inscrutable works filled with dream sequences and bizarre images.

Last summer, Lynch had revealed to Sight and Sound that he was diagnosed with emphysema and would not be leaving his home because of fears of contracting the coronavirus or “even a cold.”

“I’ve gotten emphysema from smoking for so long and so I’m homebound whether I like it or not,” Lynch said, adding he didn’t expect to make another film.

“I would try to do it remotely, if it comes to it,” Lynch said.

“I wouldn’t like that so much.”

Lynch was a one-time painter who broke through in the 1970s with the surreal Eraserhead and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences, peers and critics in the following decades.

His notable releases ranged from the neo-noir Mulholland Drive to the skewed Gothic of Blue Velvet to the eclectic and eccentric Twin Peaks, which won three Golden Globes, two Emmys and even a Grammy for its theme music.

Lynch never won a competitive Academy Award. He received nominations for directing The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive and, in 2019, was presented an honourary Oscar for lifetime achievement.

Source: ABC, Nine

8 Responses

  1. I only have to hear the first few bars of the Twin Peaks music which Lynch helped compose and I’m right back there with my daughter watching it and going to various book store at all the shopping centres trying to buy the books because they were always sold out. The log lady and her psychic connection to the log which Dale Cooper consulted got me every time..after all it’s just log but shows how bizarre Lynch could be.
    RIP Mr Lynch thanks for the joy and sadly another lost to “Memory Lane” 🕊️

  2. I don’t remember noticing this earlier in the week but ‘Mullholland Dri ve’ is on ABC2 tonight at 12.48 am-trippy film like all of his stuff and ad free-I saw ‘Eraser Head’ in 1979 and haven’t been the same since…RIP , Sir.

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