By sampurn on Friday, November 12nd, 2010
Brilliant American director David Lynch, who earned huge fame after his big-screen debut Eraserhead in 1976, is no more.
David Lynch
He died at the age of 64. He breathed his last this Tuesday night in his Beverly Hills home, his wife Emily said. The circumstances surrounding his death are yet to be clarified.
Lynch gained through his career the reputation of one of the foremost auteurs in the filmmaking industry. Walking the tightrope between the mainstream and the avant-garde with balance and skill, Lynch brought to the screen a singularly dark and disturbing view of reality, a nightmare world punctuated by defining moments of extreme violence, bizarre comedy, and strange beauty.
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. Originally intending to become a graphic artist, Lynch enrolled in the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. In 1972, Lynch began work on his first feature effort, Eraserhead, a surreal nightmare born of the director's own fears and anxieties of fatherhood. A big critical success, Eraserhead meant a breakthrough for Lynch's career, composed of titles such as The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) and Mulholland Dr. (2001).
At the peak of his powers, Lynch turned away from motion pictures to concentrate on other forms of media. In 1990 he mounted his most commercially successful work, the ABC television series Twin Peaks. A surrealist soap opera created in conjunction with producer Mark Frost, Twin Peaks became a cultural phenomenon, spurred by the mystery of "Who killed Laura Palmer?," the series' central plot thread.
Never one to stop throwing aesthetic curve balls, Lynch spent his last years immersed in the world of digital video, first on his exclusive website and then on the highly experimental feature Inland Empire. The meandering, non-narrative, 3-hour opus, however, left critics and fans sharply divided as they tried to make sense of such bizarre elements. At the time of his death, David Lynch was working on a new film feature to be released in early 2012–Sampurn
http://www.filmyfriday.com/news/hollywo ... lynch-dies
(la noticia la he hecho mezclando trozos de otras páginas) Pero...¿y lo contento que se queda uno al saber que Lynch sigue vivo?
