2 hours ago ‘David Lynch altered our brains’: fellow directors, friends and fans remember a titan of cinema

His unique, twisted visions shocked and seduced generations of filmgoers. Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Coralie Fargeat and more pay tribute• Ranked: David Lynch’s films and TV shows• Cigarettes were Lynch’s magic wand – and his undoingPaul Schrader, director Continue reading...

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13 hours ago David Lynch, film director known for Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet, dies aged 78

"There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us. But, as he would say, 'keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole'.

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5 hours ago From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked

The great American film-maker died this week, leaving behind a body of work unmatched in its seductive strangeness and transcendent mystery. We put it in orderIt is one of life’s eternal mysteries that for the last two decades of his life, no one was willing to fund another feature by America’s greatest film-maker of the time. Almost as much of a mystery was his final completed feature: the evil twin of his previous film, Mulholland Drive. As Laura Dern’s hexed actor segues into the character she is playing, this digitally shot rampage down Hollywood’s boulevard of broken dreams dials up the narrative fragmentation of his late period. It runs the gamut from inspired camcorder surrealism to making-it-up-as-you-go-along incoherence (which is what it was: Lynch shot without a finished screenplay). Continue reading...

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3 hours ago The best of David Lynch: pay tribute to the beloved director with his most famous filmography

From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks to Lost Highway, the director leaves behind some of the best films of the past half century

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19 hours ago David Lynch death: Steven Spielberg, Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts and more pay tribute to auteur

Collaborators including Nicolas Cage and Lara Flynn Boyle have shared their thoughts on the director’s death

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5 hours ago ‘Music is a magic’: how David Lynch used song and sound to transcend reality

He found global fame as a film-maker, but Lynch’s passion for music was life-long and resulted in work every bit as surreal as his moviesDavid Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream‘Music,” David Lynch said when I spoke to him for the Guardian last year, “is a magic”. We were discussing the album Cellophane Memories, which he had produced with singer Chrystabell: a beautiful, dreamlike, archetypically Lynchian record, which – with his death this week at the age of 78 – would be his last.While he started out as a painter and found global fame as a director through surrealist masterpieces like Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, Lynch maintained a passion for music all his life – from his bizarre sonic experiments for film, to his own albums, to his collaborations with the likes of Julee Cruise, Flying Lotus and Angelo Badalamenti. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago David Lynch death: Steven Spielberg, Kyle MacLachlan, Nicolas Cage and more pay tribute to auteur

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

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8 hours ago David Lynch transcended film: he was one of America’s greatest artists

David Lynch’s death marks the passing of a true instinctive genius who stood apart from the rest of Hollywood

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22 hours ago Hollywood pays tribute to David Lynch: ‘A singular, visionary dreamer’

Steven Spielberg, Naomi Watts, Nicolas Cage, Kyle MacLachlan and others share their respects for film-maker who died this week at 78David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstreamActors and directors have been paying tribute to the director David Lynch, who died this week at the age of 78.The death of Lynch, whose works include Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, was announced by his family on Facebook earlier on Thursday. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” they wrote. “But, as he would say: ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’” Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Nicolas Cage leads tributes to ‘singular genius’ David Lynch after death aged 78

Cage said he ‘never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch’.

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9 hours ago David Lynch, the visionary artist who made films that no one else could

The singular American filmmaker died this week at the age of 78, leaving behind a legacy like no other. Louis Chilton looks at the life and work of a man who redefined what cinema itself could achieve

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25 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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22 hours 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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11 hours ago Remembering David Lynch’s musical legacy: 10 songs to go beyond the films

The loss of singular talent and visionary filmmaker David Lynch is not only felt in the world of cinema, but music, where he had inextricable influence on multiple generations of artists. Maria Sherman runs through the 10 best songs to remember his legacy

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23 hours 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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19 hours ago Remembering David Lynch's musical legacy: 10 songs to go beyond the films

The loss of singular talent and visionary filmmaker David Lynch is not only felt in the world of cinema, but music, where he had inextricable influence on multiple generations of artists

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24 hours ago David Lynch death updates: Tributes pour in as Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director dies aged 78

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

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25 hours ago Iconic Twin Peaks director David Lynch dies aged 78 after tragic admission

David Lynch, who directed award-winning films such as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and won the honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 2019, has passed away

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