David Lynch, Visionary Filmmaker and Creator of 'Twin Peaks,' Dies at 78

'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' director David Lynch dies at 78

LOS ANGELES, United States — David Lynch -- the singular and surreal director of "Mulholland Drive" and television's "Twin Peaks," who depicted the darkness lurking beneath the wholesome surface of American life -- has died. He was 78 years old.An enigmatic artist who turned his hand to arthouse and blockbuster film, television, painting and music, Lynch was considered first

David Lynch Was The Artist of Our Time

Across the entire spectrum of great American icons, there is no one quite like David Lynch. He was a walking enigma: an artist’s artist who was also somehow mainstream, an unapologetic esotericist whose work still managed to be immediately though ineffably understood, a well-known and highly regarded director who was nevertheless completely underrated. He’s arguably the most influential filmmaker of the last 50 years, and though many have tried,…

'Lynch was everything to me': How the surrealist icon inspired Canadian filmmakers

TORONTO — Kyle Edward Ball was only 9 when he watched his first David Lynch movie — 2001’s mind-bending psychological thriller “Mulholland Drive” — but it left an indelible mark on him. "What struck me is his movies are like music.

In praise of David Lynch metaphysical, poetic pilgrim’s tale

On January 16, eccentric filmmaker David Lynch passed away at seventy-eight. While Lynch was known for bizarre, experimental, and polarizing work, his 1999 film The Straight Story is one of the most beautiful and profoundly Christian films [...]

The inscrutable David Lynch

David Lynch, the visionary film director, artist and musician, student of transcendental meditation, and owner of the most magnificent shock of white hair, has died at the age of 78. His film career spanned 50 years, ten feature films, and three seasons of one of the saddest, funniest and most sublimely beautiful television shows ever made. It was through this TV show that I first encountered Lynch, which I now understand to have been a kind of …