![]() ![]() ![]() In these films, time is meaningless, characters are merely archetypes, and the questions are as elusive as the answers. Lynch’s later works have come to be known as his ‘hard’ films: the mobius strip storytelling of Lost Highway, the glossy illusion of Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire’s unsettling rabbit hole. The familiar opening, the discovery of the body of a young local girl, was used to crack open the secrets and psyches of the community. Twin Peaks was a unique experiment in small-screen storytelling. The mystery/soap opera Twin Peaks first aired in 1990, the same year that Lynch collected the Palm D’or at Cannes for Wild At Heart – a chaotic and hostile road movie with a Wizard of Oz twist. However Lynch is perhaps best known to the mainstream audience not for a film, but for a TV show. He picked up another nomination for Best Director and silenced his loudest naysayers. With critics undecided, Lynch delivered Blue Velvet, the crystallization of his early work. While Dune is an uneven scattergun of dreamlike visuals and glorious schlock, Elephant Man is tender and truthful, and garnered six Academy Award nominations. The filmmaker got his first feature Eraserhead greenlit with a $10,000 budget in 1972 and the rich expressionistic masterpiece went on to become a cult hit of hallucinatory imagery and twisted Americana.įollowing this success, Lynch found his side door into the mainstream with the tragically compassionate Elephant Man, and the campy Dune with varying effectiveness. ‘Life is complicated, so films are allowed to be too’ His half-hour film The Grandmother was a success at film festivals and gained him access to the Centre for Advanced Film Studies in LA. His first trials were film sculptures, devoid of narrative but heavy on form. In the late sixties, he began making experimental short films. ‘So you see, there’s this beautiful world but you look a bit closer and it’s all red ants’ – Lynch Born in 1946, David Lynch would later describe his childhood as a carefree ‘dreamworld’ of droning airplanes and blue skies. He was awakened, though, upon seeing a cherry tree swarming with insects. ![]()
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