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| David
Lynch |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer / Editor / Production Designer |
| 1946 - |
| Born January 20,
Missoula, Montana, USA |
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Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres:
Surrealist Film, Drama, Mystery, Avant-garde/Experimental |
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Collaborators: Angelo
Badalamenti (Composer), Mary Sweeney (Editor/Producer/Screenwriter),
Patricia Norris (Production Designer), Kyle MacLachlan (Leading Player),
Harry
Dean Stanton (Leading Character Player), Freddie Francis
(Cinematographer), Frederick Elmes
(Cinematographer), Freddie Jones (Character Player), Laura Dern (Leading Player),
Duwayne Dunham (Editor) |
| Highly Recommended: Blue Velvet (1986), The
Straight Story (1999), Mulholland Dr. (2001) |
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Recommended: The
Elephant Man (1980) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
The City of
Absurdity: The Mysterious World of David Lynch ] [ David Lynch.Com ] [
LynchNet.Com: The David Lynch
Resource ] [ The Universe of
David Lynch ] [
Salon Interview (2001) ] [ 1997
Interview on KCRW ] [
Lynch Link: The
Films of David Lynch ] [
David Lynch Foundation:
For Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace ] [
Mercury News Article (2007) ] [
Guardian Article (2007) ] [
Kamera Article (2007)
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| Books:
[
Lynch on Lynch: Revised Edition ] [ The
Complete Lynch ] [ The
Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood ] [
Weirdsville U.S.A.: The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch ] [
The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions ] [
David Lynch ] [
Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch ] [
Images ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films: Eraserhead
(1978), The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart
(1990), Lost Highway (1996), Mulholland Dr.
(2001) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Mulholland Dr.
(2001), Inland Empire (2006) |
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"The
undoubted perversity that runs throughout the works of David
Lynch extends to his repeated and unexpected career turns...Both
a genuine artist and a cunning commercial survivor, Lynch
stands, with maybe David
Cronenberg, as the Best Hope for cinema in the 1990s." -
Kim
Newman (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991) |
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"Although
his cult star has waxed and waned, this American specialist in
subliminal surrealism has always reasserted his grip on his
followers with some new aspect of his own ciné-fantastique.
Lynch makes puzzle pictures that no one is expected to solve,
and jigsaw films whose pieces never quite fit together. And,
just to prove himself capable of making a 'normal' film, he made
one on a very abnormal subject, The Elephant Man, and was
nominated for an Academy Award in the doing" - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"Perhaps
the most original and imaginative director to emerge from
America in recent years, David Lynch reveals an uncanny ability
to draw upon his own inner fantasies and create strange,
sinister worlds at once unreal and oddly familiar. If the films'
precise meaning is sometimes less than clear, their power and
invention remain virtually unparalleled in contemporary
mainstream cinema." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"And
Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of
cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw,
all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above
the ground." -
Jacques Rivette |
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"My movies
are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid.
I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if
the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and
she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful." -
David Lynch |
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"Directors who have inspired
me include Billy Wilder,
Federico Fellini,
lngmar Bergman,
John Ford,
Orson Welles, Werner Herzog,
Stanley Kubrick,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Francis Ford Coppola and
Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I
studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs,
Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems
from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the
sub-conscious mood created by sound and images." -
David Lynch |
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