David M Lynch

David Lynch

• Birth Name David Keith Lynch
• Biography Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept gett...
  Born in 1946 in Missoula, Montana, David Lynch was raised early in small town America. After high school, he went to Boston to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Shortly after that, he plan...
  
• Write biography Michael Brooke <[email protected]>
  TADAMS
  
• Spouse Peggy Lynch (I) (1967 - 1974) (divorced) (1 child)
  Mary Fisk (21 June 1977 - 29 August 1987) (divorced); 1 child
  Mary Sweeney (10 May 2006 - 12 February 2007) (divorced); 1 child
  Emily Stofle (26 February 2009 - present)
  
• Trade Mark Has frequently cast Jack Nance (I), Kyle MacLachlan,Sheryl Lee, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini,Sherilyn Fenn, Harry Dean Stanton,Michael J. Anderson, Everett McGill, Frances Bay,Dean Stockwell, David...
  Finds small-town USA fascinating.
  Has a taste for low/middle frequency noise, dark and rottingenvironments, distorted characters, a polarized world (angels vsdemons, Madonnas vs whores), and debilitating damage to the skull orbrain.
  Use of slow-motion during key scenes of violence.
  Red Curtains.
  Strobe Lights.
  Almost always casts a musician for a supporting role: Sting (I)in Dune (1984); Chris Isaak, David Bowie (I) andJulee Cruise in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992);Marilyn Manson and Henry Rollins inL...
  Uses many references to France, the French language, culture, people,and names.
  Constant references to dreams as a way of connecting the plot and twistsin his films.
  Uses Roy Orbison songs in his films.
  Close up shots of eyes
  
• Biography print Kenneth C. Kaleta. _David Lynch._ New York: Twayne Publishers (of Simon &Schuster Macmillan), 1995.ISBN 0805793178 (hardcover)
  Kenneth C. Kaleta. _David Lynch._ New York: Twayne Publishers (of Simon &Schuster Macmillan), 1995.ISBN 0805793232 (paperback)
  Paul A. Woods. _Weirdsville, USA: The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch._Plexus, 1997.
  Todd McGowan. _The Impossible David Lynch._ New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 2007.ISBN 0231139551
  John Alexander. _The Films of David Lynch._ London, England: Charles Letts & Co., 1993. ISBN 1852383607
  David Lynch. _Lynch on Lynch._ Faber & Faber, 1997. ISBN 0-571-17833-2
  
• Personal quotes It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they mightbe interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening.Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality....
  I sort of go by a duck when I work on a film because if you study aduck, you'll see certain things. You'll see a bill, and the bill is acertain texture and a certain length. Then you'll see a head, an...
  I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don'tgo. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry somuch about the director and it is hard for me to digest my p...
  It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's betternot to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's avery personal thing, and the meaning for me is different ...
  To give a sense of place, to me, is a thrilling thing. And a sense ofplace is made up of details. And so the details are incrediblyimportant. If they're wrong, then it throws you out of the mood. And ...
  In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind oftraditional films, stories that are understood by people. And theentire story is understood. And they become worried if even for onesmall ...
  
• Salary The Alphabet (1968): $1,000.00
  
• Cover Photo "Wrapped in Plastic" (USA), December 1999, Iss. 44
  "Wrapped in Plastic" (USA), December 1997, Iss. 32
  "Rolling Stone" (USA), 6 March 1997
  "Wrapped in Plastic" (USA), October 1995, Iss. 19
  "Time" (USA), 1 October 1990
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 6 April 1990
  
• Biographical movie
  
  Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch (1990) (TV)
  Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997) (TV)
  The Short Films of David Lynch (2002) (V)
  
• Filmography

  Rooted in Peace (2012) Documentary

  2012: Time for Change (2010) News

  Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007) Comedy

  David Wants to Fly (2010) Documentary

  Eraserhead (1976) Sci-Fi

  Gilles Jacob, l'arpenteur de la croisette (2010) (TV) Documentary

  Great Directors (2009) Documentary

  King Shot (2010) {{SUSPENDED}} Fantasy

  My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) Drama

  Snootworld (2010) Animation