17 January 2025 - David Lynch Dies aged 78
David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78
Stephen Galloway (The Hollywood Reporter, 16/01/2025)
David Lynch, the writer-director whose films and TV series including Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks portrayed a seemingly bucolic America, only to reveal it as teeming with the mysterious and macabre, has died. He was 78.
David Lynch obituary
Ryan Gilbey (The Guardian, 17/01/2025)
David Lynch, who has died aged 78, was the most original film-maker to emerge in postwar America, as well as the greatest cinematic surrealist since Buñuel. His understanding of desire, fantasy and dread was unparalleled; the Paris Review called him “the Edward Hopper of American film”.
We’re Lucky to Have Been Alive in the Age of David Lynch
Stephanie Zacharek (TIME Magazine, 16/01/2025)
Cigarettes, coffee, candy. According to legend, and to people who spent time with him, these were the things David Lynch would fuel up on, substances that kept him going and contributed to the mad, cosmic swirl of ideas that found their way—to our lasting pleasure—from his brain to the screen.
David Lynch’s Relentless Creativity
Howard Fishman (The New Yorker, 21/02/2021)
On January 20th, while the world’s attention was focussed on the Inauguration, David Lynch quietly turned seventy-five. He spent the day the way he’s spent almost every day since the pandemic began: sheltered in his Los Angeles home, engaged with self-prescribed daily routines.
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