Lynchian
| David Lynch | |
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Lynch in 2007
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| Born |
David Keith Lynch January 20, 1946 Missoula, Montana, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Judas Booth |
| Alma mater |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia AFI Conservatory |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, sound designer, photographer, actor |
| Years active | 1966–present |
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| Children | 4, including Jennifer |
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He has been described by The Guardian as "the most important director of this era," while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking." He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. His films Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001) are widely considered by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades. Following the success of his 1990–91 television series Twin Peaks, film critic Pauline Kael labeled him "the first popular Surrealist."
Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States before he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror film Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct the biographical film The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. He was then employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir mystery film Blue Velvet (1986), which stirred controversy over its violence but later grew in critical reputation.
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