That’s a wrap: David Lynch, eccentric director of late 20th century movies and tv shows, blue velvet and twin peaks, dies of emphysema at 78

That’s a wrap: David Lynch, eccentric director of late 20th century movies and tv shows, blue velvet and twin peaks, dies of emphysema at 78
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
thursday, january 16, 2025 at 5:19:00 p.m. est

CNN

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“David Lynch, an influential director known for his unique and surrealistic films and TV shows including blue velvet and twin peaks, has died. he was 78.

“cause of death was emphysema, exacerbated by a lifetime of smoking.”

GRA: eraserhead came out in 1977. I was dragged to the corner theater by my cousin to see a tremendously bizarre film. I caught blue velvet, but don’t remember much about it except that Dennis Hopper was in it as a maniacal killer. I also saw Mulholland drive and angel heart and a few others. Usually his films were enjoyable and dark. I went to a lot of movies back in the 80s and 90s, and Lynch had plenty of them on movie screens.

--GRA

N.S.: That scene where he played Jack Ford, in the story Steven Spielberg loved to tell, was the high point of his life.

And the beauty part of David Lynch’s overrated career, is that his casting of Sheryl Lee as the plastic-wrapped corpse in Twin Peaks, led to her playing a stunning double-role in Mother Night (1996).

A diminished thing (The Holocaust)

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-diminished-thing-holocaust.html

When a didactic scene (“exposition dump”) doesn’t seem like one at all (videos): Mother Night (1996): “Blue Fairy Godmother”; John Goodman and Nick Nolte; and the official trailer

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/08/when-didactic-scene-exposition-dump.html


Director David Lynch Playing John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022)

Re-posted by N.S.



@konmami1979 “Much credit to Spielberg for knowing Lynch well. This is a very Lynchian scene.”

N.S.: The hell, it is. It’s a very Fordian scene. Anyone who knows anything about Ford’s life knows this story, except for the role of the secretary. I had forgotten that the visitor was a young Steven Spielberg.