3 hours ago David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

From disturbing debut Eraserhead to his masterpiece Mulholland Drive, Lynch’s dark tales combined radical experiment with everyday AmericanaDavid Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78No director ever interpreted the American Dream with more artless innocence than David Lynch. It could be the title of any of his films. Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness.Lynch was a film-maker who found portals to alternative existences and truffled in them like they were erogenous zones, moist orifices of existential possibility. He was the great American surrealist, but his vision was so distinctive that he became something other than that: a great fabulist, a great anti-narrative dissenter, his storylines splitting and swirling in non sequiturs ...

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47 minutes ago David Lynch death updates: Steven Spielberg, Kyle MacLachlan and more pay tribute to auteur

The ‘Eraserhead’ and ‘Elephant Man’ director was described as ‘the first populist surrealist’

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93 minutes ago David Lynch tributes: Ron Howard, James Gunn and others remember Twin Peaks director after his death aged 78

Celebrities including Ron Howard and James Gunn have paid tribute to Hollywood icon David Lynch following his death aged 78.

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96 minutes ago David Lynch death updates: Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and more pay tribute to auteur

The ‘Eraserhead’ and ‘Elephant Man’ director was described as ‘the first populist surrealist’

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2 hours ago David Lynch: Legendary Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director dies aged 78

The filmmaker, writer and artist was Oscar-nominated for his films Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive

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