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

The death of legendary film and television director David Lynch, last Thursday, shook the film guild and several industry personalities shared messages on social media as a tribute to the filmmaker, whom they considered to be a “visionary” who conceived unique worlds on screen.

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,…

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 …

David Lynch Was America’s Cinematic Poet

The director’s death, at 78, is shocking only because it seemed he’d be with us forever.

Rome, January 17 - David Lynch died yesterday, at the age of 78 (he would have turned 79 next Monday), after the worsening of pulmonary emphysema that he had been suffering from for years. Winner of an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2020, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2006 and a Palme d'Or in 1990, Lynch was undoubtedly one of the most loved and appreciated directors. Despite the many unanswered questions that his works, often bor…