From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Lynch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | The Fabelmans | John Ford | 2022-11-11 |
Movie | Meeting the Beatles in India | Self | 2020-09-09 |
Movie | Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound | Self | 2019-10-25 |
Movie | Tell It Martin | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | Lucky | Howard | 2017-09-29 |
Movie | Bad Binoculars | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | David Lynch: The Art Life | Self | 2017-02-15 |
Movie | Rocksteppy | Himself | 2017-01-01 |
Movie | Girlfriend's Day | Narrator (voice) | 2017-01-24 |
Movie | The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | The Black Ghiandola | Man In Black | 2017-04-22 |
Movie | See You on the Other Side Dear Friend | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | Two Blue Balls | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | The Number of Completion | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | Behind the Red Curtain | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | A Pot of Boiling Oil | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth | Self | 2017-12-05 |
Movie | On Meditation | Self | 2016-07-27 |
Movie | 'Blue Velvet' Revisited | Self | 2016-10-07 |
Movie | Along for the Ride | Self | 2016-11-03 |
Movie | Brand: A Second Coming | Himself | 2015-03-13 |
Movie | The Music of David Lynch Benefit Concert | 2015-04-01 | |
Movie | Rammstein in Amerika | Self | 2015-09-25 |
Movie | Duran Duran: Unstaged | Himself | 2014-03-09 |
Movie | It's a Beautiful World | Self | 2014-04-21 |
Movie | Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces | Gordon Cole | 2014-07-16 |
Movie | The 8th Floor | Self | 2014-05-10 |
Movie | Professor Goudet's Lessons | Self | 2013-04-06 |
Movie | Mel Brooks: Make a Noise | Self | 2013-05-20 |
Movie | What Is Cinema? | Self | 2013-09-06 |
Movie | Side by Side | Self | 2012-08-19 |
Movie | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Self | 2012-09-05 |
Movie | Meditation Creativity Peace | Self | 2012-11-15 |
Movie | David Wants to Fly | 2010-05-06 | |
Series | Louie | Jack Dall | 2010-06-29 |
Movie | 2012: Time for Change | Self | 2010-10-08 |
Movie | Brunes et Blondes | Self | 2010-10-06 |
Movie | Great Directors | Self | 2009-05-19 |
Movie | La Traversée du désir | Self | 2009-03-16 |
Movie | The Way of Samodelkin | Stranger in a dream | 2009-06-05 |
Movie | Peixe Vermelho | O Sábio | 2009-06-16 |
Series | The Cleveland Show | Unknown | 2009-09-27 |
Movie | Crítico | Self (voice) | 2008-01-28 |
Movie | Elvis: Viva Las Vegas | Self | 2008-09-16 |
Movie | Hollyshorts Greeting | Himself | 2008-11-25 |
Movie | Out Yonder — Chicken | 2007-01-01 | |
Movie | Boat | 2007-01-30 | |
Movie | Out Yonder — Teeth | 2007-01-01 | |
Movie | Lynch 2 | Self | 2007-08-14 |
Movie | Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy | 2007-09-10 | |
Movie | Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | Himself | 2006-06-20 |
Movie | Edge of Outside | Self (archive footage) | 2006-06-11 |
Movie | Inland Empire | Bucky J | 2006-12-06 |
Series | Torchwood | Unknown | 2006-10-22 |
Movie | The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’ | Self | 2004-04-05 |
Movie | Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments | Self | 2004-05-01 |
Movie | I Don't Know Jack | Self | 2002-04-05 |
Movie | The Short Films of David Lynch | Self | 2002-06-01 |
Movie | Mysteries of Love | Self (archive footage) | 2002-06-04 |
Movie | Eraserhead Stories | Self | 2001-09-06 |
Movie | In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story | Self | 1999-10-07 |
Movie | Lost Highway | Morgue Attendant (scenes deleted) | 1997-01-15 |
Movie | Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch | Self | 1997-10-14 |
Movie | The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money | Self | 1996-11-17 |
Movie | Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff | Himself | 1994-09-09 |
Movie | Nadja | Morgue Receptionist | 1994-09-13 |
Movie | Made in the USA | Self | 1993-09-25 |
Movie | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Gordon Cole | 1992-06-03 |
Series | Twin Peaks | FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole | 1990-04-08 |
Movie | Hollywood Mavericks | Self | 1990-09-07 |
Movie | Barracuda | Constable Fletcher | 1988-01-01 |
Movie | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | 1988-01-03 |
Movie | Zelly and Me | Willie | 1988-04-15 |
Movie | No Frank in Lumberton | 1988-01-19 | |
Movie | Dune | Spice Miner (uncredited) | 1984-12-14 |
Movie | Heart Beat | Painter | 1980-04-25 |
Movie | The Elephant Man | Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited) | 1980-10-09 |
Movie | The Amputee | Nurse | 1974-01-01 |
Movie | Sailing with Bushnell Keeler | 1967-01-01 | |
Movie | Rock Around the Clock | Himself | 1956-03-21 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |