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David Lynch


Born
in Missoula, Montana, The United States
January 20, 1946

Website

Genre
Arts & Photography, Entertainment, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences
Francis Bacon, Alfred Hitchcock, Rene Magritte, Luis Buñuel, Alejandro ...more


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. He attended various art schools, married, and fathered future director Jennifer Chambers Lynch shortly after he turned 21. That experience, plus attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired ERASERHEAD(1977), a film that he began in the early 1970s (after a couple of shorts) and which he would work on obsessively for five years. The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasable, but thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it secured a cult following and enabled ...more

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Catching the Big Fish: Medi...
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Room to Dream
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Lynch on Lynch
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4.25 avg rating — 3,011 ratings — published 1997 — 34 editions
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Welcome to Twin Peaks: An A...
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Lost Highway
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David Lynch: Someone is in ...
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Images
4.22 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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The Air is on Fire
4.31 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Regreso a Twin Peaks
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Nudes
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“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
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“I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
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“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
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