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David Lynch

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  • David Lynch was born on the 20th of January 1946 at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, the son of a USDA research scientist and an English-language tutor. He died on the 16th of January 2025, four days before what would have been his 79th birthday, at his daughter Jennifer's home in Los Angeles, his emphysema worsened after he was evacuated during the January 2025 Southern California wildfires. In the decades between those two dates, he fashioned a body of work so singular that the adjective "Lynchian" entered the language as shorthand for a feeling that no other word quite captures. He began not as a filmmaker at all, but as a painter who simply wanted to see his canvases move. That restless desire to push one medium into the territory of another never left him. How did a boy raised on dirt roads and tall forests in Montana become the director who remade the grammar of American cinema and television? What was the source of that peculiar blend of the domestic and the terrifying that runs through everything he made? And what kept him working, meditating, painting, designing furniture, roasting coffee, and broadcasting daily weather reports almost until the very end?

  • Sandpoint, Idaho; Spokane, Washington; Durham, North Carolina; Boise; Alexandria, Virginia: Lynch's family moved constantly, following wherever the USDA assigned his father. He adjusted to each new school without much difficulty, he said, though he regarded the institution itself with some hostility. "School was a crime against young people," he later said. "It destroyed the seeds of liberty."

    The counter-force to that feeling arrived through a friend. Lynch befriended Toby Keeler in Alexandria, whose father Bushnell was a painter. Bushnell gave Lynch a copy of Robert Henri's book The Art Spirit, published in 1923, and Lynch later credited that gift with inspiring him to dedicate himself to "the art life." At Francis C. Hammond High School he was popular but indifferent to academics. After graduating, he enrolled at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., then transferred to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where his roommate was the future musician Peter Wolf. He dropped out after a year, uninspired.

    His next attempt at formal training almost happened in Salzburg. Lynch and his friend Jack Fisk traveled to Austria hoping to study under the painter Oskar Kokoschka, only to find that Kokoschka was not available. Having planned a three-year stay in Europe, they came home after two weeks. The failed European expedition redirected Lynch back to the United States, and ultimately to a school that would actually hold his attention: the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where Fisk was already enrolled. Lynch later described his time there as "a beautiful time" of mutual inspiration among serious painters. He was deeply influenced by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, whom he called his "number one kinda hero painter," admiring him for the consistency of his work across his entire career.

  • Lynch bought his first house in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood for $3,500, a low price that reflected the neighborhood's high crime and poverty rates. Within three days of moving in, the house was broken into. The family was robbed twice more, had windows shot out, and had a car stolen. "The feeling was so close to extreme danger," he later said, and yet he also called Philadelphia "the biggest influence in my whole life."

    At the Pennsylvania Academy, Lynch made his first short film in 1967 after spending $150 on a 16mm camera. Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) was what he described as "57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit." Played on a loop at the academy's end-of-year exhibit, it shared joint-first prize with a painting by Noel Mahaffey, and immediately attracted a commission. A wealthy fellow student, H. Barton Wasserman, offered Lynch $1,000 to create a film installation for his home. Lynch spent $478 on a secondhand Bolex camera, only to discover when the film came back from development that the camera had been broken and the footage was a blurred, frameless print. Wasserman's response was characteristically generous: take the rest of the money and make something else.

    With those leftover funds Lynch made The Alphabet in 1968, a four-minute short starring his wife Peggy as a character who chants the alphabet before dying in a bed of blood. For the sound design, Lynch recorded his infant daughter Jennifer crying through a broken Uher tape recorder, producing a distorted effect he found "particularly effective." The film's origin lay in a dream: Peggy's niece had been reciting the alphabet in her sleep in a "tormented way."

    The American Film Institute, newly founded and offering grants to filmmakers, agreed to fund Lynch's next project, The Grandmother, initially offering $5,000 of his requested $7,200 budget and later adding the remaining $2,200. The film featured a neglected boy who grows a grandmother from a seed. Film critics Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell would later write that it "contains many of the themes and ideas that would filter into his later work, and shows a remarkable grasp of the medium."

    In 1970, Lynch and his family moved to Los Angeles so he could study at the AFI Conservatory. There he began work on a script called Gardenback, but grew fed up with institutional interference. AFI dean Frank Daniel persuaded him to stay only after Lynch negotiated a condition: he would direct a new project, entirely free from interference. That project became Eraserhead.

  • Filming on Eraserhead began on the 29th of May 1972, at night in some abandoned stables on the AFI campus. The production team was largely Lynch and friends, including Sissy Spacek, Jack Fisk, cinematographer Frederick Elmes, and sound designer Alan Splet. The AFI gave Lynch a $10,000 grant, but it was not enough to finish the film. Under financial pressure, Lynch supplemented his income with a paper route delivering The Wall Street Journal. Production stopped and started irregularly for years; during one break in 1974, Lynch made a two-minute one-shot film called The Amputee, proposing it as a test of different film stocks for the AFI.

    Eraserhead was finally completed in 1976. Its 89-minute running time exceeded the planned 42 minutes; its script had been only 21 pages. The film tells the story of Henry, played by Jack Nance, a young man living in a dystopian industrial wasteland whose girlfriend leaves their deformed baby in his care. Lynch called it "my Philadelphia Story," because its atmosphere drew so heavily from the city's fearful mood.

    The Cannes Film Festival rejected it. The New York Film Festival rejected it. It did screen at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where distributor Ben Barenholtz heard about it and helped distribute the film around the United States in 1977. From there, Eraserhead found its audience on the midnight movie underground circuit, eventually ranked alongside Night of the Living Dead, El Topo, Pink Flamingos, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and The Harder They Come as one of the most important midnight movies of the decade. Stanley Kubrick said it was one of his all-time favorite films.

    In 1973, while Eraserhead was still being made, Lynch's sister suggested he try Transcendental Meditation. He said he had never "missed a session since: twenty minutes, twice a day."

  • Stuart Cornfeld, a producer working with Mel Brooks, saw Eraserhead and later recalled being "just 100 percent blown away." Brooks himself embraced Lynch after a screening and declared, "You're a madman! I love you! You're in." Cornfeld agreed to help Lynch with his next film, but his planned project, Ronnie Rocket, about "electricity and a three-foot guy with red hair," was unbankable. Lynch asked Cornfeld to find him a script by someone else. Cornfeld brought four. Lynch chose the first based on its title alone: The Elephant Man.

    The script by Chris de Vore and Eric Bergren told the story of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in Victorian London who was held in a sideshow before coming under the care of surgeon Frederick Treves. The film starred John Hurt as John Merrick and Anthony Hopkins as Treves, and was filmed in London. Though shot in black and white and containing surrealist elements, it has been called "one of the most conventional" of Lynch's films. It earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and was a critical and commercial success.

    After that success, George Lucas offered Lynch the chance to direct Return of the Jedi. Lynch declined, saying he had "next door to zero interest" and arguing that Lucas should direct films from his own vision. The next large-scale science fiction project that came his way was harder to turn down: Dino de Laurentiis asked Lynch to adapt Frank Herbert's novel Dune, published in 1965. Lynch agreed, and was contractually obligated to produce two additional works for the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group as part of the deal.

    Dune cost $45 million to make and grossed $27.4 million domestically. Lynch later said he had been "subconsciously making compromises" throughout production, and much of his footage was cut from the theatrical release. When Universal later released an extended cut for syndicated television, Lynch had his name replaced with the pseudonym "Alan Smithee" as director and invented the screenwriting credit "Judas Booth," reflecting his feelings of betrayal.

    The other personal project he owed De Laurentiis became Blue Velvet, set in Lumberton, North Carolina, built around ideas Lynch had been developing since 1973. The film revolved around Jeffrey Beaumont, played by Kyle MacLachlan, who finds a severed ear in a field and uncovers a criminal world beneath a quiet suburban surface. Lynch said it was "a dream of strange desires wrapped inside a mystery story," and credited Bobby Vinton's song of the same name with sparking the entire project. "It made me think about things," Lynch said, "and the first things I thought about were lawns and the neighborhood." The film's score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti, who went on to score most of Lynch's subsequent work.

    Blue Velvet was controversial. Roger Ebert wrote that Isabella Rossellini was "asked to do things in this film that require real nerve." Rossellini later said: "I was an adult. I was 31 or 32. I chose to play the character... I think he did a fantastic film. I love Blue Velvet." The film won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film and earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Critic Pauline Kael praised Lynch as a "genius naïf" and predicted he "might turn out to be the first populist surrealist , a Frank Capra of dream logic."

  • Lynch met television producer Mark Frost and the two spent time working on an unmade biopic of Marilyn Monroe before finding their real collaboration in a different image. Talking in a coffee shop, they hit upon the idea of a corpse washing up on a lakeshore. The resulting series, first called Northwest Passage and then Twin Peaks, premiered on ABC in 1990.

    Set in a small Washington state town, Twin Peaks followed FBI agent Dale Cooper, again played by MacLachlan, investigating the murder of popular high school student Laura Palmer. Richard Corliss wrote at the time that the two-hour pilot was "frantic and lugubrious in turn, a soap opera with strychnine. In one night, the show had hip America hooked." Lynch played FBI supervisor Gordon Cole in several episodes. The show developed a cult following in the United States and was popular in many other countries. In Japan, mock funerals were held for Laura Palmer, tourists traveled to the filming locations around Snoqualmie, and MacLachlan reprised his role of Dale Cooper in a four-part series of commercials for a Japanese coffee company.

    ABC executives, worried about declining interest, pressured Lynch and Frost to reveal Laura Palmer's killer earlier than Lynch wanted, a decision Lynch later called one of his biggest professional regrets. The show moved from Thursday to Saturday night and was eventually canceled after a ratings drop. Lynch directed the final episode and deliberately ended it on a cliffhanger. "That's not the ending," he said later. "That's the ending that people were stuck with."

    Lynch earned nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the series. He also co-wrote with Robert Engels and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, released in 1992, which dealt with what he described as "the loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion and devastation of the victim of incest." The film was a commercial failure at the time of its release; critics such as Mark Kermode have since called it Lynch's "masterpiece."

    A revival, Twin Peaks: The Return, aired on Showtime in 2017. After Lynch briefly announced via Twitter in 2015 that he was leaving the project because the budget was insufficient, Showtime CEO David Nevins confirmed a resolution: Lynch would direct every episode of the revival, and the original nine-episode order had been extended to 18. Lynch and Frost wrote all the episodes. The two-episode premiere aired on the 21st of May 2017.

  • Mulholland Drive began as a failed television pilot for ABC. With $7 million from the French production company StudioCanal, Lynch completed it as a feature film. The nonlinear surrealist story starred Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, and Justin Theroux. It earned Lynch Best Director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, shared with Joel Coen, as well as Best Director from the New York Film Critics Association and his third Academy Award nomination for Best Director. In 2016, a BBC poll of 177 film critics from 36 countries named it the best film of the 21st century.

    His most surprising film came in between those two critical peaks. The Straight Story, released in 1999, is rated G by the Motion Picture Association of America and was his only film released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States. It tells the true story of Alvin Straight, played by Richard Farnsworth, an elderly man from Laurens, Iowa, who rides a lawnmower 300 miles to visit his sick brother in Mount Zion, Wisconsin. Disney studio president Peter Schneider acquired the distribution rights after seeing it before its Cannes premiere. The New York Times called it one of the best films of the year, with critic Janet Maslin writing that Lynch had accomplished "the unthinkable by putting Richard Farnsworth, in a devastatingly real and rock-solid performance, on a lawnmower at five miles per hour and still building enough drama and emotion for a great chase."

    Beyond film, Lynch directed music videos for Donovan, Interpol, Chris Isaak, X Japan, Moby, and Nine Inch Nails, and made commercials for Dior, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Jil Sander, Calvin Klein, the PlayStation 2, and the New York City Department of Sanitation. He designed furniture, including pieces for his 1997 film Lost Highway. He conceived and designed a Paris nightclub, Silencio, which opened in October 2011 as a private members' club but free to the public after midnight; the space was inspired by the club of the same name in Mulholland Drive. He published a comic strip, The Angriest Dog in the World, in The Village Voice and other publications from 1983 to 1992, featuring unchanging graphics of a tethered dog alongside cryptic philosophical text.

    His music career ran parallel to his films for decades. He produced and wrote lyrics for Julee Cruise's first two albums. He and collaborator John Neff released a blues album called BlueBob in 2001, notable for Lynch's habit of playing guitar upside down and backwards, like a lap guitar, using heavy effects pedals. His 2011 studio album Crazy Clown Time featured guest vocals from Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. His final album, Cellophane Memories, a collaboration with his longtime musical partner Chrystabell, was released in August 2024.

    Lynch's acting roles included a recurring part as Gordon Cole on Twin Peaks, the voice of Gus on The Cleveland Show from 2010 to 2013, and a cameo in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans in 2022, where he played director John Ford, the figure Spielberg had considered formative from his own youth. Critic J. Hoberman called the casting "a sentimental gesture that one can only call Lynchian."

  • Lynch was initiated into Transcendental Meditation in July 1973 and never stopped. He met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for the first time in 1975 at the Spiritual Regeneration Movement center in Los Angeles, and the two grew closer over the years. In 2003, Lynch attended a month-long intensive course with the Maharishi, the fee for which was $1 million. He attended the Maharishi's funeral in India in 2008.

    In July 2005, Lynch launched the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and Peace, dedicated to funding meditation instruction for students in middle and high schools and to supporting research on the technique's effects. The foundation also funded meditation lessons for veterans and other populations Lynch described as "at-risk." He was working toward funding seven buildings where 8,000 salaried people would practice advanced meditation techniques, which he estimated would cost $7 billion. In April 2022, he announced a $500 million transcendental meditation world peace initiative.

    In early 2020, unable to leave his Los Angeles home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lynch returned to a practice he had started in the 2000s: posting short daily videos of himself giving weather reports. He also launched What is David Lynch Working on Today?, documenting his collage-making, and Today's Number Is..., in which he drew a random number from a jar containing ten numbered ping-pong balls. He posted his final weather report on the 16th of December 2022.

    In 2022, he appeared in The Fabelmans as John Ford, and he and the cast received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. His final studio album arrived in August 2024.

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Common questions

When did David Lynch die and what was the cause?

David Lynch died on the 16th of January 2025 at his daughter Jennifer's home in Los Angeles. He was a lifelong chain smoker whose emphysema was worsened after he was evacuated from his home during the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.

What was David Lynch's first film and how did he make it?

Lynch's first film was Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times), made in 1967 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He spent $150 on the cheapest 16mm camera he could find and filmed it in an abandoned upper room at the academy. It was described as "57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit" and won joint-first prize at the academy's annual exhibit.

Why did David Lynch disown the 1984 film Dune?

Lynch disowned Dune because he did not have final cut and felt he was "subconsciously making compromises" throughout production. Much of his footage was removed from the theatrical release. When Universal Studios later released an extended cut for syndicated television, Lynch had his name replaced with the pseudonym Alan Smithee and invented the screenwriter credit "Judas Booth" to reflect his feeling of betrayal.

What is the David Lynch Foundation and what does it do?

Lynch launched the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and Peace in July 2005. It funds Transcendental Meditation scholarships for middle and high school students, supports research on the technique's effects on learning, and provides meditation lessons for veterans and other at-risk populations.

How did Twin Peaks get canceled and what did Lynch think of the ending?

ABC executives insisted that Lynch and Mark Frost reveal Laura Palmer's killer earlier than Lynch wanted, believing public interest was declining. After that revelation, the show moved from Thursday to Saturday night and was canceled following a ratings drop. Lynch directed the final episode and deliberately ended it on a cliffhanger, later saying, "That's not the ending. That's the ending that people were stuck with."

What awards did David Lynch receive over his career?

Lynch received an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, two César Awards, and a posthumous Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. He also received four Academy Award nominations for Best Director, nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and two British Academy Film Award nominations.

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  74. 75Dumb Numbers II, by Dumb Numbers
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  85. 86David Lynch Theater
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  117. 118David Lynch Unveils Album Cover ArtCarrie Battan — September 14, 2011
  118. 119David Lynch and Chrysta Bell Team Up for New EPMatthew Strauss — August 9, 2016
  119. 120David Lynch Announces New Album, The Big Dream, Shares Track Featuring Lykke LiEvan Minkser — June 3, 2013
  120. 121Video of the day: David Lynch's TBD716Mubi — May 31, 2013
  121. 122David Lynch collaborates with Moby and Bastille for Record Store Day EP – listenMarch 11, 2014
  122. 123David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's Lost '90s Album Is Getting ReleasedBraudie Blais-Billie — September 18, 2018
  123. 124Thought Gang ReviewBekki Bemrose
  124. 125MagazineFlying Lotus Previews New Album With Freaky David Lynch CollaborationJon Blistein — April 17, 2019
  125. 126Donovan is Back!Jeff Cazanov — April 16, 2012
  126. 127Chrystabell & David Lynch – "Sublime Eternal Love"Tom Breihan — June 5, 2024
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  129. 130Live Inside A Dream: David Lynch's Hollywood Hills Home For SalePieter Dom — September 12, 2025
  130. 131The City of Absurdity: David Lynch's Furniture
  131. 132Silencio by David LynchSeptember 7, 2011
  132. 133NewsInside David Lynch's Paris nightclubFiachra Gibbons — August 31, 2011
  133. 134BookCatching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and CreativityDavid Lynch — The Penguin Group — 2006
  134. 135David Lynch details hybrid biography/memoir, Room to Dream, arriving next weekRandall Colburn — June 12, 2018
  135. 136The mystery of David Lynch's daily lotteryBrit Dawson — September 29, 2020
  136. 137David Lynch gives a weather report from LAMay 12, 2020
  137. 138RabbitsIMDb
  138. 139Press releaseWhole Foods Market® and Filmmaker David Lynch Pour New Signature Coffee LineWhole Foods Market — August 20, 2013
  139. 140David Lynch's Philosophy on Drinking CoffeeHelen Hollyman — July 17, 2014
  140. 141VideoEraserhead (Digitally Remastered)2006
  141. 142David Lynch: 10 reasons to worship the Twin Peaks surrealistBen Rawson-Jones — February 14, 2012
  142. 143For David Lynch, nothing was scarier than dear old dadJ.R. Jones — May 3, 2017
  143. 144MagazineIn Conversation: David LynchDavid Marchese — June 25, 2018
  144. 145A Dark Lens on AmericaRichard B. Woodward — January 14, 1990
  145. 146Mary Sweeney – 'Baraboo'PBS Wisconsin — April 1, 2011
  146. 147David Lynch, Wife Split After 1 MonthMary Margaret Acoymo et al. — June 14, 2006
  147. 148NewsDirector David Lynch and wife welcome first daughterSeptember 8, 2012
  148. 149NewsRelease Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminariesCatherine Shoard — September 29, 2009
  149. 150Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski – SACDJune 4, 2012
  150. 151David Lynch regretted signing letter defending Roman Polanski, daughter revealsVictoria Luxford — 2025-08-11
  151. 152BookDavid Lynch: InterviewsRichard A. Barney — University Press of Mississippi — 2009
  152. 153Was David Lynch the Original Libertarian Democrat?Nick Gillespie — December 11, 2006
  153. 154MagazineDonald Trump's America and the Visions of David LynchDennis Lim — June 29, 2018
  154. 155Reason 52: I Have Noticed Something in Mitt Romney's name.David Lynch
  155. 156Dear Twtter Friends, YAY! BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT!!!David Lynch — March 29, 2016
  156. 157Dear Bernie Sanders, You are for the people. Great good luck to you going forward!!!David Lynch — April 26, 2016
  157. 158NewsDavid Lynch: 'You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing'Rory Carrol — June 25, 2018
  158. 159NewsNo, David Lynch Didn't Actually Praise TrumpEve Peyser — June 26, 2018
  159. 160Trump jokes about David Lynch's career being 'over' after comments on his presidencyRoisin O'Connor — June 26, 2018
  160. 161David Lynch
  161. 162David Lynch Adds Black Lives Matter Message to Daily Web Series: 'Peace, Justice, No Fear'Zack Sharf — IndieWire — June 3, 2020
  162. 163David Lynch Condemns Putin: 'All This Death and Destruction Will Come Back to Visit You'Zack Sharf — February 25, 2022
  163. 164Filmmaker David Lynch explains how to catch big ideas (Lecture)KUOW-FM
  164. 165David Lynch on meditation: Heaven is a place on earthDavid Lynch — October 31, 2013
  165. 166NewsThe pleasure of life growsDavid Lynch — July 3, 2008
  166. 167NewsYogi BearerWilliam Booth — December 2, 2005
  167. 168NewsDavid Lynch's Guru and His ArtClaire Hoffman — March 12, 2012
  168. 169David Lynch's Peace PlanMichael Kress
  169. 170NewsAnd now children, it's time for your yogic flying lessonJacqueline Stevens et al. — January 27, 2009
  170. 171About Us
  171. 172David Lynch – John Hagelin Tour Inspires Thousands of College Students on East and West CoastsInstitute of Science, Technology and Public Policy — 2005
  172. 173Press releaseFilmmaker David Lynch to Give 2016 Commencement Address at Maharishi University of ManagementApril 18, 2016
  173. 174MagazineFourth Annual David Lynch Weekend for World Peace and Meditation Taking Place in IowaEmily Reimer — October 30, 2009
  174. 175David Lynch and Katy Perry promote meditation with Carnegie Hall eventRose Hackman — November 4, 2015
  175. 176NewsWest meets East on guru Mahesh Yogi's funeral pyreKrittivas Mukherjee — February 11, 2008
  176. 177NewsDavid Lynch to shoot film about TM guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in IndiaNovember 18, 2009
  177. 178David Lynch to make film about Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh YogiAdam Bychawski — November 18, 2009
  178. 179NewsPaul McCartney and Ringo Starr Reunite at Radio CityJon Pareles — April 4, 2009
  179. 180German Documentaries 2010March 2010
  180. 181Review: 'David Wants to Fly'Alissa Simon — February 14, 2010
  181. 182Für Lynch bin ich ein FeindNovember 1, 2019
  182. 183NewsBeyond The NoiseAugust 24, 2010
  183. 184List of 2011 documentariesMarbella Film Festival — 2011
  184. 185Beyond the Noise: My Transcendental Meditation JourneyIMDb
  185. 186PostFebruary 5, 2020
  186. 187David Lynch Launches $500 Million Transcendental Meditation World Peace InitiativeSamantha Bergeson — April 15, 2022
  187. 188David Lynch has emphysema and can no longer 'leave the house' due to Covid fearsJacob Stolworthy — August 5, 2024
  188. 189NewsDavid Lynch says he is too ill to direct films in personAndrew Pulver — August 5, 2024
  189. 190NewsDavid Lynch Started Smoking at Age 8 — Now He Needs Oxygen to Walk: 'It's a Big Price to Pay' (Exclusive)Eileen Finan — November 14, 2024
  190. 191David Lynch on music and innovation: 'I like to call it experimentation'January 17, 2025
  191. 192NewsDavid Lynch Says He Has EmphysemaAlexandra E. Petri — August 5, 2024
  192. 193NewsDavid Lynch Suffers from Emphysema, No Longer Able to DirectScoop Harrison — August 5, 2024
  193. 194NewsDavid Lynch Says 'I Will Never Retire' In Response To Health ReportsAnthony D'Alessandro — August 5, 2024
  194. 195NewsDavid Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78Andrew Pulver — January 16, 2025
  195. 196NewsDavid Lynch Dies: 'Twin Peaks', 'Blue Velvet', 'Elephant Man' & 'Eraserhead' Visionary Was 78Erik Pedersen et al. — January 16, 2025
  196. 197NewsDavid Lynch Cause Of Death RevealedNatalie Oganesyan — February 8, 2025
  197. 198NewsDavid Lynch Quotes: 13 of the visionary director's best quotesLauren Jack — January 17, 2025
  198. 199NewsDavid Lynch's cause of death revealedInga Parkel — February 7, 2025
  199. 200David Lynch's Cause of Death RevealedScoop Harrison — February 7, 2025
  200. 201Nicolas Cage On Death Of His "Wild At Heart" Director David Lynch: "I Never Had More Fun On A Film Set"Anthony D'Alessandro — January 16, 2025
  201. 202MagazineIsabella Rossellini Remembers David Lynch: "I Loved Him So Much"Ellise Shafer — January 17, 2025
  202. 203MagazineLaura Dern Wishes David Lynch Happy Birthday: "I Will Love and Miss You Every Day for the Rest of My Life"Ellise Shafer — January 20, 2025
  203. 204Naomi Watts Says 'Mulholland Drive' Director David Lynch 'Put Me On The Map'Anthony D'Alessandro — January 16, 2025
  204. 205Kyle MacLachlan Says 'I Owe My Entire Career' and Life to 'Blue Velvet' and 'Twin Peaks' Director David Lynch; Naomi Watts Says 'My Heart Is Broken'Michaela Zee — January 16, 2025
  205. 206NewsOpinion Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch Invented MeKyle MacLachlan — January 19, 2025
  206. 207David Lynch to Posthumously Receive WGAW's 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
  207. 208Steven Spielberg Honors David Lynch as Hollywood Mourns a Film Icon: 'The World Is Going to Miss Such an Original and Unique Voice'Ellise Shafer — January 16, 2025
  208. 209Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, Martin Scorsese, and More Pay Tribute to David Lynch: 'He Made Everything Strange, Uncanny, Revelatory, and New'Samantha Bergeson — January 16, 2025
  209. 210Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, James Gunn and More Pay Tribute to David Lynch: He 'Inspired So Many of Us'Lexi Carson — January 16, 2025
  210. 211Steven Spielberg, 'Twin Peaks' star Kyle MacLachlan, more remember David LynchBrendan Morrow — January 16, 2025
  211. 213Stockholm International Film Festival presents the 2025 festival programmeOctober 8, 2025
  212. 214Hall of Fame David Lynch - Bob's Big Boy
  213. 215David Lynch fans memorialize him outside Twede's CafeGrace Gorenflo — January 27, 2025
  214. 216NewsDavid Lynch Keeps His HeadDavid Foster Wallace — September 1997
  215. 217David Lynch Was America's Cinematic PoetDavid Sims — January 17, 2025
  216. 218BookOxford English Dictionary
  217. 219David Lynch obituaryRyan Gilbey — January 17, 2025
  218. 220David Lynch Conjured Cinematic Dreams – And We All Got To Live In ThemNick De Semiyen — January 17, 2025
  219. 221Deviant obsessions: how David Lynch predicted our fragmented timesPhil Hoad — January 9, 2023
  220. 222The Lynchian SoundFrancesco Ruggieri Fornari
  221. 223MagazineDavid Lynch's Unsolvable PuzzlesFebruary 6, 2025
  222. 224David Lynch tells you how to experience his moviesSam Kemp — September 23, 2021
  223. 225NewsWhat Does David Lynch Have to Say About Race?Frank Guan — September 12, 2017
  224. 226BookDavid Lynch: Beautiful DarkGreg Olson — Scarecrow Press — 2008
  225. 227Embracing mystery with David LynchChris Thiessen
  226. 228Curtains and Holes: David LynchMark Fisher
  227. 229David Lynch watching Vertigo
  228. 2309 Great Films Influenced By Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'Greg Cwik — April 16, 2015
  229. 231BookDavid Lynch and the American West Essays on Regionalism and Indigeneity in Twin Peaks and the FilmsRob E. King — MacFarland — 2023
  230. 232Remain in light: Mulholland Dr. and the cosmogony of David LynchB. Kite — November 13, 2019
  231. 233Eternal Stories from the Upanishads In The ReturnMatt Cult — August 15, 2017
  232. 234NewsInland Empire—The San Rafael Film Center Q&A With David LynchMichael Guillen — 24 January 2007
  233. 235BookEternal Stories from the UpanishadsThomas Egenes et al. — Smrti Books — 2002
  234. 236What made late filmmaker David Lynch a true believerJoseph Joyce — January 27, 2025
  235. 237InterviewDavid Lynch Favorites Movies and FilmMakersDavid Lynch
  236. 238NewsLong live the wizard, David LynchAmy Richardson — January 17, 2025
  237. 239The movies that David Lynch "oriented" himself onCallum Russell — July 15, 2022
  238. 240Retro Cinema: Carnival of SoulsOctober 12, 2007
  239. 241Did avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren inspire David Lynch's movies?Aimee Ferrier — January 20, 2023
  240. 242Mr. Sunshine: David Lynch, Auteur of the Uncanny, Talks InspirationBryan Abrams — May 8, 2014
  241. 243Encore: David Lynch Refuses To Explain 'Twin Peaks: The Return' — "Ideas Came, And This Is What They Presented"Damon Wise — August 20, 2018
  242. 244NewsDavid Lynch named his five favorite books of all timeLee Thomas — October 12, 2022
  243. 245NewsMy Beautiful Broken Brain: The woman who 'video-selfied' her strokeKate Wills — March 17, 2016
  244. 246David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78January 16, 2025
  245. 247David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78Stephen Galloway — January 16, 2025
  246. 248News40 best directors2007
  247. 249David Lynch: BiographyJason Ankeny — AllMovie
  248. 250David Lynch movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biographyJason Ankeny — AllMovie
  249. 251The Straight Story (1999)
  250. 252Filmmaker David Lynch awarded MacDowell MedalMeghan Pierce — August 14, 2017
  251. 253David Lynch, Chrystabell Conjure 'Cellophane Memories'June 5, 2024
  252. 254David Lynch's New Project Is an Album and Music Video With Chrystabell From 'Twin Peaks: The Return'Pat Saperstein — June 5, 2024
  253. 255David Lynch Biography
  254. 256David Lynch, The Air is on Fire
  255. 257Review: David Lynch Art Exhibit in CopenhagenTanya Lee Markul — January 13, 2011
  256. 258Galerie Chelsea zeigt Drucke von David LynchSHZ — May 26, 2012
  257. 259MagazineMünchener Kunstherbst: Highlights in 2-DMarch 2012
  258. 260Press releaseDavid Lynch Foto-Ausstellung in FrankfurtEpson — November 9, 2013
  259. 261David Lynch is fascinated by abandoned factoriesValentina Palladino — March 25, 2014
  260. 262Damn fine coffee and an individual slice of visual art – two sides of David LynchMark Brown — December 12, 2014
  261. 263PAFA celebrates alum David Lynch with 'Unified Field'Peter Crimmins — September 14, 2014
  262. 264Between Two Worlds: We Saw David Lynch in BrisbaneLee Zachariah — March 16, 2015
  263. 265The Ultimate David Lynch Art Exhibition Opens in November, Featuring 400 Original WorksZack Sharf — September 21, 2017
  264. 266Review: David Lynch's paintings reveal insecurities of adolescence and maligned misfitsDavid Pagel — October 26, 2018
  265. 267David Lynch's Art Peers Behind the FacadeNina Siegal — March 14, 2019
  266. 268A Major David Lynch Exhibition Is Coming to the UKMarch 11, 2019
  267. 269Installations – David Lynch – Squeaky Flies in the Mud – 1 November – 21 December 2019 – ExhibitionsSperone Westwater Gallery
  268. 270David Lynch to display photos at Nikolaj Kunsthal in SeptemberKasper Grandetoft — July 12, 2021