The news hit the media last night. One of the great directors of modern American cinema has died, David Lyncha reference for another way of making films.
“Referential”, “visionary”, “revolutionary”… adjectives that have been used on countless occasions to refer to one of the most important mass cult directors of modern cinema. David Lynch He died at the age of seventy-eight due to pulmonary emphysema from which he had suffered for years.
Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes and an Honorary Oscar, David Lynch was one of the most counter-current directors in American cinema, as he demonstrated in films such as “Eraserhead” (77), “The Elephant Man” (81), “Dune” (84), “Blue Velvet” (86), “Mullholland Drive” (01) or the television series “Twin Peaks” (1990-1991 and 2017)
On the other hand, Lynch has also been starring in a musical career in recent years since “BlueBOB” in 2001 until the most recent “The Big Dream” of 2013.