David Lynch
David Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and professor at the European Graduate School.
His love of surrealism is particularly notable in the disturbing and strangely incomprehensible film Eraserhead, and the television series Twin Peaks. Recently he has made some more mainstream (yet still strangely incomprehensible) films with studios like Disney.
His films tend to feature small-town America (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) or the sprawling vastness of Los Angeles (Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr.) and the dark underbelly that exists in each. Sound in his films is as important as the image, with each soundtrack being worked on with painstaking care. He has managed to establish himself as one of the few modern directors whose visual and verbal style is instantly recognisable.
Despite his almost exclusive focus on America, like Woody Allen, Lynch has found a large audience in France with the likes of Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway and Fire Walk With Me finding funding from French production companies. He has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film and served as President of the jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival where he had won the Palme d'Or in 1990. He was also honored in 2002 by the French government with the Legion of Honor.
In his spare time, he also designs and builds furniture. Lynch was also responsible for the comic strip The Angriest Dog in the World.
Selected filmography
