David Lynch

David Keith Lynch (Missoula, Montana, January 20, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer of electronic music. His artistic activity also extends to the field of painting, music, advertising, photography, and even furniture design.

A recognized admirer of Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Tati, Ingmar Bergman and Werner Herzog, his love for Dadaism and Surrealism is evident in some of his films, whose mysterious atmosphere mixes the everyday with the dream, sometimes escaping comprehension viewer exhaustive. These traits have been present since his first feature film, Eraserhead (1977). His second film, The Elephant Man (1980), was a great critical and commercial success, receiving eight Oscar nominations. His third film, Dune (1984), did not have the support of critics and was a commercial failure. He then directed Blue Velvet (1986), with which he again received critical acclaim and a new Oscar nomination in the Best Director category.

Later, he teamed up with Mark Frost to create the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991; 2017), which enjoyed great popularity and unanimous support from critics, and was considered a cult series. With Wild Heart (1990) he received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival His next feature film was Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me (1992), a prequel to the series. He returned with Lost Highway (1997), a psychological thriller that, although it received mixed reviews, is now considered a cult film. Subsequently, he directed what is considered his most accessible film, The Straight Story (1999), which was met with great critical acclaim. Already in the XXI century, he made Mulholland Drive (2001), a new psychological thriller film of a non-linear structure for which he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and his third Oscar nomination for Best Director. His tenth and last feature film, which took him several years to shoot using exclusively digital techniques, was Inland Empire (2006). Currently, some of his film and animation projects are only accessible through his website.

A recurring element in his films is describing the ins and outs of small communities in the United States, such as Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks, also feeling a predilection for hidden secrets of the Los Angeles suburbs, portrayed in Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. The sound in his films is of great importance, and for this reason each soundtrack is worked with care. The person responsible for this sound is the composer Angelo Badalamenti, a regular collaborator of the director and creator, among others, of the well-known soundtrack of the series Twin Peaks, or that of The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive, both nominated for a Golden Globe. Lynch has managed to stand out according to critics as one of the few current directors with a truly personal style and an unavoidable reference in contemporary cinema.

Biography and work

Childhood and youth (1946 - 1965)

Lynch could be considered the epitome of the middle-class American boy. According to Thierry Jousse, editor of the magazine Cahiers du cinéma and author of a book on Lynch, “when he talks about his childhood, Lynch invariably describes it as an idyllic stage, a kind of permanent waking dream, whose only The problematic aspect was, without a doubt, an enforced nomadic life". His father, Donald, was a scientist attached to the US Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Sunny, was a language teacher. David was born with a clubfoot, clubfoot, or clubfoot. The family lived in different places, between the northwest of the country and North Carolina. Lynch was a boy scout and at the age of 15 participated as an usher at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.

He soon experienced artistic impulses and attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. while finishing high school in Alexandria, Virginia. He then enrolled in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for a year, before leaving for Europe in the company of his friend and fellow artist Jack Fisk. His plans were to study with the Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka (who would turn out to be one of his main artistic references) for three years. However, Lynch returned to the United States after only 15 days.

Philadelphia and early short films (1966 - 1970)

In 1966, Lynch settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). There he devoted himself at first to making complex mosaics based on geometric figures, which he called Industrial Symphonies . Around that time, he had the first cinematic dalliances of him. His first short film was titled Six Men Getting Sick (1966). He described it as "57 seconds of development and passion, and three seconds of vomit." With this piece he won the Academy's annual contest. This small success allowed him to tackle his second short film: The Alphabet .

Starting in the 1970s, Lynch focused exclusively on the art of cinema. He got a $5,000 award from the American Film Institute for The Grandmother,, which is about a poor street kid who manages to get a grandmother from a seed. This 30-minute film already shows many of the characteristic patterns of his mature cinema, including disturbing and enveloping sound and powerful imagery focused on desires and the repressed unconscious, all far from traditional methods of narrating.

Los Angeles and Eraserhead (1971 - 1979)

Poster Eraserhead (1977).

In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to attend classes at the American Film Institute Conservatory. It was there that she began working on her first feature film, Eraserhead , taking advantage of a $10,000 grant granted by said institution. This money was not enough to finish the film, and for this reason it would not be finished until 1977. Lynch had to ask friends and family for money, including his childhood friend Jack Fisk, production designer and husband of actress Sissy. Spacek, and even dedicated himself to selling newspapers to finance it.

Eraserhead is an enigmatic and dark film, full of surreal hints and disturbing elements. For this reason it was appropriately shot in black and white. It tells the story of a quiet young man (played by Jack Nance) who lives in some kind of industrial area and whose girlfriend gives birth to a rare little beast that won't stop moaning. Lynch refers to the film as "my Philadelphia story", alluding to the fact that he reflects very well all the harsh experiences he lived in that city as a student, experiences that deeply marked him.

About the film, critics have claimed that it suggests or tries to suggest the filmmaker's own fears and anxieties about parenthood, personified in the grotesque appearance of the baby, who has become one of the icons of fantasy cinema of all time. the times. The director has shunned on more than one occasion explaining how the creature was made, but legend has it that it was built from an embalmed cow fetus.

Due to its extravagant contents, it was initially thought that Eraserhead could not be displayed commercially. However, thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it soon became a classic, typical in theaters specializing in midnight screenings, outside of large audiences. The most advanced critics immediately praised it as a masterpiece, which placed the director at the head of the cinematographic avant-garde. The great director Stanley Kubrick stated with admiration that it was one of his favorite films in the entire history of cinema. The success prompted the team of actors and crew (including cameraman Frederick Elmes, soundman Alan Splet, and actor Jack Nance) to continue working with Lynch in later years.

The Elephant Man and commercial success (1980 - 1982)

John Hurt plays John Merrick in The elephant man.

Eraserhead attracted the attention of producer Mel Brooks, who hired Lynch to direct the 1980 film The Elephant Man. Written by Chris de Vore and Eric Bergren, it is a biopic inspired by the figure of Joseph Merrick, a low-class man with terrible physical malformations. The film starred John Hurt as John Merrick (his real name has been changed) and Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves. Filming took place in London, and Lynch brought his own surreal approach to the film, shooting it in the same way as the previous one, in black and white. However, it has been described as "one of the most conventional" from his movies. The Elephant Man was a huge commercial success and earned eight Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Lynch. In this way, the commercial viability of his proposals was proven.

Films with De Laurentiis: Dune and Blue Velvet (1983 - 1986)

Subsequently, the filmmaker agreed to direct a blockbuster adaptation of the science fiction novel Dune, by writer Frank Herbert, for Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, on the condition that the production company commit to finance a second project over which Lynch would retain full creative control. Although the producer hoped that Dune (1984) would be something like a new Star Wars, the film turned out to be a great commercial fiasco, and, furthermore, it was battered by the criticism. It was estimated that 45 million dollars would enter, of which, in the end, only 27.4 remained. To make up for losses, the studio produced an extended version for television that misrepresented the director's cut, which Lynch promptly disavowed.

Lynch's second film produced by De Laurentiis was Blue Velvet (1986), the story of a young college boy (played by the actor who starred in Dune, Kyle MacLachlan) who discovers the dark side of a small town, when investigating the origin of a severed ear that he had found by chance during a country walk. The film features memorable performances by Isabella Rossellini as a tormented singer and Dennis Hopper as a psychopathic criminal, leader of a gang of low-key thugs.

Blue Velvet was highly critically acclaimed, earning Lynch his second Best Director Oscar nomination. The film presents some common places in his cinema: a very careful staging, certain inexplicable episodes and behaviors, outraged women, the unhealthy ins and outs of a small community, and the unconventional use of old songs. Bobby Vinton's Blue Velvet and Roy Orbison's In Dreams sound strange and disturbing in this film. This was the first time Lynch had worked with composer Angelo Badalamenti, who would contribute to all of his subsequent films thereafter.

Director Woody Allen, whose film Hannah & Her Sisters was nominated for best picture, called Blue Velvet the best film of the year. The film, which is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of contemporary cinema, has gone on to become an icon of popular culture.

Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart and Fire Walk with Me (1987 - 1996)

David Lynch at the Emmy Awards of 1990.

Lynch next to Isabella Rossellini at the Festival de Cannes in 1990, where he won the Golden Palm for Wild heart.

Unable to obtain funding for further scripts, in the late 1980s Lynch opted to collaborate with television producer Mark Frost on the television series Twin Peaks, about a small town in Washington where strange things happen. events. The story centered on the investigations conducted by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (again Kyle MacLachlan) into the death of a well-known high school student named Laura Palmer, an investigation that revealed the lurid secrets of many seemingly respectable citizens.. The filmmaker directed six episodes in total, including the first two, and wrote or co-wrote a few more, even appearing as an actor in some of them.

The series premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990, and gradually revealed itself as a cultural phenomenon. No other Lynch project has garnered such acceptance. The series was sold to countless countries, and some of his catchphrases entered popular culture. Parodies of it were made on Saturday Night Live and on the animated series The Simpsons. Lynch graced the cover of Time magazine largely due to the huge success of Twin Peaks. The director embodied the role of Agent Cooper's vociferous and half-deaf boss, Gordon Cole. Despite everything, Lynch collided with those responsible for the chain for different reasons, especially the possibility of revealing or not the identity of Laura Palmer's murderer. The chain insisted on unmasking it already in the second season, but Lynch wanted to keep it a secret until the end. Lynch soon became disenchanted with the series, and as a result many cast members reported feeling "abandoned."

It was around this time that Lynch began collaborating with editor-producer and real-life partner Mary Sweeney, who had worked as an assistant for him on Blue Velvet. This collaboration would extend over eleven projects. From their relationship a son was born.

Her next feature film was an adaptation of Barry Gifford's novel, Wild at Heart, a road movie starring actors Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. The production won the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, but it did not have the approval of critics or the support of the general public.

Twin Peaks ended up suffering serious ratings setbacks and was withdrawn in 1991. Meanwhile, Lynch wrote a prequel about the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer's character, which led to the feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), which failed at the box office and brought the director the worst reviews of his career.

The missing link between Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart, is the musical show Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted, a new collaboration with Angelo Badalamenti in which Julee Cruise sings and stars several Twin Peaks actors, as well as Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. Lynch confessed that the work somehow reflected a broken sentimental relationship. The director produced in 1990 a 50-minute video about the work.

During this period, Lynch collaborated again with Mark Frost on the documentary series American Chronicles (1990) and on the comedy series On the Air (1992) for ABC. about the origins of television. In the US only three episodes were broadcast. Her next project was the miniseries for the HBO chain entitled Hotel Room (1993), which narrated the events that took place in the same hotel room over several decades.

Lost Highway, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive (1997 - 2001)

In 1997, Lynch returned to the fore with the complex non-linear plot film Lost Highway, which had many elements of film noir. It was co-written with Barry Gifford and starred actors Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette. The film failed commercially, but received mixed reviews. However, thanks in part to the soundtrack featuring singers and groups such as Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails and The Smashing Pumpkins, Lynch gained a new audience among so-called Generation X viewers.

Naomi Watts, David Lynch, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux in the presentation Mulholland Drive during the Festival de Cannes in 2001.

In 1999, he very positively surprised his fans and critics with a film produced by the Disney company: The Straight Story, which was, at least apparently, a simple film without any pretense telling a story. true story about a small-town man (played by veteran actor Richard Farnsworth) who sets out on a long journey from state to state, aboard a lawnmower, with the sole purpose of making peace with his ailing brother. The film received rave reviews and provided its author with new audiences. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or, received two Golden Globe nominations (score and actor in a drama), and Richard Farnsworth was nominated for an Oscar in the best actor category.

That same year, Lynch once again tempted ABC with the idea of a television drama. The chain gave the go-ahead and the two-hour pilot episode was recorded. But controversies about the content and duration of the series put it on hold for good. With a $7 million contribution from French production company Studio Canal, the director turned that pilot episode into the feature film Mulholland Drive. Finally released in 2001, it is a story that tries to delve into the dark side of Hollywood, the "dream factory". It stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and actor Justin Theroux. Commercially, the film did relatively well around the world, also earning positive reviews, and Lynch won the Best Director award for it at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival (he shared this award with Joel Coen for The Man That Was Never There) and another Best Director Award from the New York Film Critics Association. The film also received four Golden Globe nominations and was also David Lynch's third Best Director Oscar nomination.

I work for the Internet and Inland Empire (2001 - present)

In 2002, Lynch developed a series of Internet shorts titled DumbLand. The eight episodes of which it consisted, intentionally very hard in content and interpretation, later appeared in DVD format.

Lynch dedicated a sitcom to his fans that same year through his website. The series was titled Rabbits and consisted of eight episodes full of surrealism that took place in a room inhabited by strange people with rodent heads. Subsequently, the director shot the short Darkened Room on digital video, in imitation of the successful Japanese horror films of recent years.

Lynch receiving the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival of 2006.

At the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker announced that he had been shooting his latest film for a year in Poland, using digital techniques. The film, titled Inland Empire, is interpreted as a compendium of Lynch's cinema. The story, complex and with nightmarish overtones, develops different intermingled plot levels, without ever clarifying the logical links between them. It abounds in expressionist close-ups (especially by Laura Dern), the sound is distorted and enveloping, and the special effects together with the numerous comic-grotesque scenes it contains produce a great visual impact. The film's cast includes actors with whom Lynch had previously worked, such as the aforementioned Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie or Diane Ladd, as well as Jeremy Irons, Karolina Gruszka, Peter J. Lucas, Krzysztof Majchrzak or Julia Ormond. Additionally, Naomi Watts and Laura Harring lend their voices to two of the rabbits in the film. Lynch described the film as "a mystery about a woman in deep trouble." It was released in December 2006, arousing among critics, like the director's latest feature films, a multitude of conflicting comments, although the opinion was mostly very positive.

On April 11, 2022, it was confirmed that he secretly shot a film with Laura Dern and other regular actors, to premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Influences

David Lynch in 2007.

Lynch has often stated that he deeply admires the filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Federico Fellini, the writer Franz Kafka, and the painter Francis Bacon. He maintains that many of Kubrick's films are among his favorites, and that the works of Kafka and Bacon captivate him with their visual power and his soulful sensibility. He has also cited the Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka as a source of inspiration. Lynch has always felt enchanted by the movie The Wizard of Oz, although not with the typical American cult following and has often made clear reference to it in films such as Wild at Heart, where he creates great controversy by parody it

An early influence on him was the book The Art Spirit by American artist and professor Robert Henri, which he claimed helped him decide the course his plastic work would take. Like Henri, Lynch moved from the countryside to an urban environment to pursue his artistic career. Henri was an urban realist painter, who embraced city life as the main subject of his work, which Lynch imitated in his origins. And if Henri's work served as a bridge between the agricultural North America of the 19th century and the urban one of the 20th, Lynch's tapes they mix the happy nostalgia of the 50s with the existential strangeness of the 80s and 90s.

The filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Werner Herzog and Roman Polański, also have great weight in his work, some of whom have also recognized Lynch himself as a reference.

Regular collaborators

Lynch often employs the same actors and the same technical and artistic crew in his productions:

• 12 Productions:

Angelo Badalamenti: music for the feature films Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, On the Air, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. He also wrote the music for Industrial Symphony No. 1, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Hotel Room, The Straight Story, Darkened Room and Rabbits .

• 10 Productions:

Mary Sweeney, his regular editor and producer. She wrote the screenplay for The Straight Story. He also worked on: Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks TV series, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Hotel Room, TV series (1993), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), Inland Empire (2006) and co-produced Nadja (1994) with Lynch.

• 7 Productions:

Jack Nance: in Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet, The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart and Lost Highway

• 6 Productions:

Harry Dean Stanton: The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Hotel Room, The Straight Story and Inland Empire.

• 5 Productions:

Scott Coffey: Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Rabbits and Inland Empire.

Laura Dern: Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Industrial Symphony No. 1, Inland Empire and Twin Peaks: The Return.

Freddie Jones: The Elephant Man, Dune, Wild at Heart, Hotel Room and On the Air.

Kyle MacLachlan: Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks: The Return.

• 4 Productions:

Michael J. Anderson: Twin Peaks, Industrial Symphony No. 1, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Mulholland Drive.

Eric DaRe: Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart (casting), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway (artistic department).

Bellina Logan: Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, On the Air and Inland Empire.

Grace Zabriskie: Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Inland Empire.

• 3 Productions:

Jack Fisk: Eraserhead, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive.

Frances Bay: Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart.

Catherine E. Coulson: The Amputee, Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Miguel Ferrer: Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and On the Air.

Laura Harring: Mulholland Drive, Rabbits and Inland Empire.

Sheryl Lee: Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Everett McGill: Dune, Twin Peaks and The Straight Story.

Frank Silva: Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and worked as a wardrobe manager on Wild at Heart.

Charlotte Stewart: Eraserhead, Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Naomi Watts: Mulholland Drive, Rabbits and Inland Empire.

Alicia Witt: Dune, Twin Peaks and Hotel Room.

• 2 Productions:

Jeanne Bates: Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive.

Nicolas Cage: Wild at Heart and Industrial Symphony No. 1.

Brad Dourif: Dune and Blue Velvet.

Sherilyn Fenn: in Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart.

Crispin Glover: Wild at Heart and Hotel Room. Lynch was interested in producing Glover's directorial debut, What is it?.

Diane Ladd: Wild at Heart and Inland Empire.

Dean Stockwell: Dune and Blue Velvet.

Justin Theroux: Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire.

Musicians who have appeared in their films: Sting in Dune, Chris Isaak in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, David Bowie in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Julee Cruise in Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, John Lurie in Wild at Heart, Marilyn Manson, Twiggy Ramirez and Henry Rollins in Lost Highway and Billy Ray Cyrus in Mulholland Drive.

Lynch himself booked small roles in The Amputee, Dune, Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. He also made voice cameos in INLAND EMPIRE and Nadja , and appeared in a deleted scene from Lost Highway . He also plays bartender Gus on the animated TV series The Cleveland Show in both voice and appearance.

Other activities

Lynch speaking about Transcendental Meditation and the Creative Process in 2007.

During his career he also dedicates his work to the advertising format, carrying out a multitude of television spots since 1988, among which are different commercial purposes; perfumes, sporting goods, food products, automobiles or entertainment devices.

Apart from film, David Lynch has developed his creativity in the field of painting. In Spain, his pictorial work could be seen with the Action-reaction exhibition, which toured cities such as Zaragoza and Granada in 2009.

Lynch has also collaborated in the world of music with the creation of video clips, including Dangerous by Michael Jackson (1992), Longing by Yoshiki (1995), Rammstein by Rammstein (1996), Shot in the Black of the Head by Moby (2009) and Came back Haunted by Nine Inch Nails (2013), among others.

His work in the dissemination of Transcendental Meditation (TM) is also noteworthy, since he began in it around 1973. In July 2005 he founded the David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (also known simply as David Lynch Foundation), to financially assist students in middle and high schools who are interested in Transcendental Meditation and to fund research on the technique and its effects on learning. Over the years, the Foundation has expanded its focus to include other "at risk" populations, such as the homeless, American war veterans, refugees from African wars, and prisoners.

Personal life

Personally, Lynch has had a romantic relationship with actress Isabella Rossellini (after the filming of Blue Velvet), and has been married three times: to Peggy Lentz (1967-1974; once daughter, Jennifer Chambers Lynch, 1968, now a film director). With Mary Fisk (1977-1987) (one son, born 1982, Austin Jack Lynch). And with the editor and producer of his films Mary Sweeney (2006; a son born in 1992, Riley Lynch).

Filmography

Short Films

• Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (1966)
• Fictitious Anacin Commercial (1967)
• Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967)
• Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967)
• The Alphabet (1968)
• The Amputee (1974)
• The Cowboy and the Frenchman (The cowboy and the French1988)
• Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995)
• The Short Films of David Lynch (2002). Collection of short films
• Darkened Room (2002)
• Blue Green (2007)
• Boat (2007)
• Absurd (2007)
• Out Yonder - Neighbor Boy (2008)
• Industrial Soundscape (2008)
• Bug Crawls (2008)
• Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)
• The 3 Rs (2011)
• I Touch A Red Button Man (2011)
• Crazy Clown Time (2012)
• Idem Paris (2013)
• What Did Jack Do? (2017)
• Ant Head (2018)
• Fire (Pozar) (2020)
• The Adventures of Alan R. (2020)

Medium-length films

• The Grandmother (1970)
• Industrial Symphony No. 1 (1990)

Feature films

• Eraserhead (1977)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Dune (1984)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• The Straight Story (1999)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• Inland Empire (2006)

Television spots

• Obsession by Calvin Klein (1988)
• Georgia Coffee (1991)
• We Care About New York (1991)
• Who is Gio? (1992)
• Dangerous Teaser (1993)
• Alka-Seltzer Plus (1993)
• Three. (1993)
• Pasta Bar (1993)
• Adidas: The Wall (1993)
• Revealed (1993)
• The Instinct of Life (1993)
• Sun Moon Stars (1994)
• Dead Leaves, Aunt Droid, Nuclear Winter and Rocket (1997)
• Clear Blue Easy (1997)
• Parisienne (1998)
• Playstation 2: The Third Place (2000)
• Nissan Micra (2002)

Series

• Twin Peaks (1990-1991). Television series
• On the Air (1992). Television series
• Hotel Room (1993). Television series
• DumbLand (2002). Internet series
• Rabbits (2002). Internet series
• Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). Television series

Documentaries

• Stories: David Lynch remembers "Eraserhead" (2001)
• More Things That Happened (2007). Selection of disposable scenes Inland Empire
• Duran Duran: Unstaged (2011)
• Meditation, Creativity, Peace (2012)
• Twin Peaks: The missing pieces (2014)

Discography

Studio Albums

• BlueBOB (2001)
• Crazy Clown Time (2011)
• The Big Dream (2013)

Awards and distinctions

Lynch at the 1990 Cannes Festival.

Oscar

Golden Globes

Cannes International Film Festival

Sitges Festival

Venice International Film Festival

Other awards

Lynch has twice won the French César Award for Best Foreign Film (for The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive). In 2002 he was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2002 he was also awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government.