He was one of the most influent, original and fascinating filmmaker. Even if we knew his long-time smoking habit that made him suffer from emphysema would eventually be the end of him, it’s tremendously sad to hear that David Lynch is gone.
From the almost experimental Eraserhead to that other unsettling piece of art that is Inland Empire, Lynch literally ‘’drove’’ us (we can’t emphasize how the road is key in his filmography) in that ‘’strange trouble (or that ‘’troubling strangeness’’), where the varnish of the American Dream crumbles in the most poetic way.
From the narrative loops of Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, to the urge of freedom lying into Wild at Heat and The Straight Story, to his classic masterpiece Elephant Man, Lynch’s cinema was deeply emotional, the same emotion that grips us as we must now experience a world where he’s no longer there.
Writer, painter, designer, musician and of course director, David Lynch was a genuine artiste, a TV pioneer with the Twin Peaks series, a creator with the most singular vision.
We will miss him a lot.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, movie available on Sky Show
David Lynch: The Art of Life, documentary available on Sky Store
