David Lynch, RIP
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ
- Variety (@variety.bsky.social) 2025-01-16T18:23:12.117Z
For fuck’s sake, 2025, ease off the pedal, already.
Beyond that, Blue Velvet was one of the very few handful of films that I came out of going “what the fuck did I just watch?!?”, and knowing that whatever answer I eventually came up with, I had seen a masterpiece. The film scared me and made me feel weird and alienated and I loved that about it. Lynch could also fail, sometimes spectacularly (see: the 1984 version of Dune), but even Lynch’s failures were more interesting to watch than some directors’ successes.
As I wrote over on Threads, “Who else could have done what he did? Who else could have done it for so long? Who else could have done it mostly with studio money?” I’m coming up a blank on that. A life well and weirdly lived.
- JS
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