Filmmaker Focus
DAVID LYNCH
(January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025)
David Lynch was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Lynch was often called a "visionary" and was acclaimed for films often distinguished by their surrealist and experimental qualities.
“I don't know why people expect art to make sense.
They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”
David Lynch
The Films
“I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.”
David Lynch
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"I hear and read the word 'visionary’ a lot these days - it’s become a kind of catch - all description, another piece of promotional language. But David Lynch really was a visionary - in fact, the word could have been invented to describe the man and the films, the series, the images and the sounds he left behind. He put images on the screen unlike anything that I or anybody else had ever seen…"
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MARTIN SCORSESE
A Life in Pictures
