“former guru, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, originally from India and now living in Holland. The peace factory workers would do the regular TM, Lynch says, and more. Like what?”
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David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker and artist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". He is often credited with bringing surrealism and experimentalism to mainstream media in the late 20th century. In a caree…
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culture · American filmmaker (1946–2025) · film director · actor · composer · voice actor · painter · film editor · television actor · lyricist · film actor · film producer · also David Lynch, Judas Booth, Lynch
Born 20 January 1946 · Died 16 January 2025 · Q2071
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2026· 13 entries
“Music is a big part of film. Film has led me to so many different mediums, and film came out of painting. It”
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“s The Name Above the Title, Fyodor Dostoyevsky”
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“I like certain things about America and it gives me ideas. When I go around and I see things, it sparks little stories”
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“not have a chance to go down in history as a great president”
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“A world of experimentation and hopefully some happy accidents”
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“I liked the idea of the story going back and forth in time.”
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“It was the song that sparked the movie ... There was something mysterious about it. It made me think about things. And the first things I thought about were lawns—lawns and the neighborhood.”
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“The project was to mix a police investigation with the ordinary lives of the characters [...] [Mark Frost and I] worked together, especially in the initial stages. Later on we started working more apart.”
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“I found the world completely and totally fantastic as a child. Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school ... for me, back then, school was a crime against young people. It destroyed the seeds of liberty. The teachers didn”
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Time Out: ‘Wonderful and strange’: an immersive David Lynch weekender is returning to London this September
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The Guardian: The Straight Story review – David Lynch’s 1999 midwest heartwarmer is an outlier well worth the trip
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The Guardian: David Lynch would struggle to make films in social media landscape, say collaborators
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2025· 23 entries
The Guardian: The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked!
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The Guardian: David Lynch’s belongings fetch $4.25m at auction, including scripts for unfinished film
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The Guardian: More than 400 personal effects owned by David Lynch put up for auction
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The Guardian: David Lynch ‘wanted to go back to work’ before his death says Naomi Watts
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The Guardian: Peter Wolf on Faye Dunaway, David Lynch and Bob Dylan: ‘My mission was to be an observer’
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The Guardian: Gene Hackman, David Lynch and Maggie Smith honoured at 2025 Oscars ceremony
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The Guardian: David Lynch’s death shocks smokers into quitting: ‘It’s just not good for us’
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The Guardian: Mark Kermode on… David Lynch, a one-off visionary who was also incredibly funny
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The Guardian: ‘He made me feel I didn’t need to fit in’: readers’ tributes to David Lynch – and their most Lynchian photograph
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Died 2025-01-16.
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Lynch's daughter, Jennifer Lynch, said her father regretted signing the petition after she confronted him about it
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“Language is an evil thing, a very evil thing. And a force to be reckoned with.”
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“It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It is better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for someone else.”
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“There's this beautiful ocean of bliss and consciousness that is able to be reached by any human being by diving within, which is really peaceful and harmonious and can be enlivened by the group process. This group is a peace-creating group. It saturates the atmosphere. This is all about establishing peace. Right now, we gotta get peace back in the world. Peace is a real thing.”
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“Life is very, very complicated and so films should be allowed to be too.”
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“I found the world completely and totally fantastic as a child. Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school ... For me, back then, school was a crime against young people. It destroyed the seeds of liberty. The teachers didn't encourage knowledge or a positive attitude.”
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“Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.”
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“When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home ... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.”
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“The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where you're going to go ... the mood is what you're looking for, and somehow we always find it.”
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“In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.”
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“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”
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“The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.”
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“All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.”
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2024· 11 entries
But the court had not issued a final divorce decree at the time of Lynch's death
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: Interview Project Trailer”.
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Released album “Cellophane Memories”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: WILL THERE BE ANYTHING ELSE ?”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: The Answers to the Questions (Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: THE MOON'S GLOW”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: The Answers to the Questions (Official Video)”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: Chrystabell & David Lynch - Sublime Eternal Love (Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: WE'LL DELIVER 'EM”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: From Sublime Eternal Love (Official Video)”.
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Published video “David Lynch Theater Presents: Chrystabell & David Lynch - Sublime Eternal Love (Official Video)”.
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2022· 3 entries
Published video “TODAY'S NUMBER IS... 12/16/22”.
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And confirmed in April 2023 that none of the three series would return: "Now I can sleep longer in the morning
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Having started when he was eight years old; he said he was reliant on supplemental oxygen for most daily activities and could "hardly walk across a room"
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2020· 5 entries
Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2020).
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Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2020).
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Lynch expressed support for Black Lives Matter protests after the murder of George Floyd
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“I did not say I quit cinema, simply that nobody knows what the future holds.”
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After a lifetime of smoking and had become housebound due to health risks, which he surmised would likely prevent him from directing any new projects
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2018· 2 entries
“some of the frames are so fuckin”
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“one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the [country] so much. No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.”
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2017· 1 entry
The MacDowell Colony awarded Lynch The Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contributions to American culture
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2016· 1 entry
The film was named the best film of the 21st century in a BBC poll of 177 film critics from 36 countries
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2015· 3 entries
Published video “David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Night (A Landscape With Factory)”.
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Said via Twitter that he would return to the revival, having sorted out his issues with Showtime
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Lynch announced via Twitter that the project was still alive, but he was no longer going to direct because the budget was too low for what he wanted to do
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2014· 5 entries
Lynch confirmed via Twitter that he and Frost would start shooting a new, nine-episode season of Twin Peaks in 2015, with the episodes expected to air in 2016 on Showtime
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Published video “The Big Dream (Moby reversion featuring Mindy Jones) OFFICIAL VIDEO”.
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Released ep “The Big Dream Remix EP”.
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Published video “David Lynch - The Big Dream (Moby Reversion Featuring Mindy Jones)”.
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Published video “David Lynch - And Light Shines”.
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2013· 11 entries
Published video “David Lynch - The Big Dream (Venetian Snares Remix)”.
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Published video “David Lynch - 'Wishin' Well' (Hot Since 82 Remix)”.
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Published video “David Lynch - 'We Rolled Together' (Yttling Jazz Remix)”.
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Published video “David Lynch - 'Are You Sure' (Bastille Remix)”.
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Published video “David Lynch - 'Bad The John Boy'”.
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Published video “David Lynch - Making 'The Big Dream' (Documentary) (2013)”.
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Released album “The Big Dream”.
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A video Lynch directed for the Nine Inch Nails song "Came Back Haunted" was released
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“Transcendental Meditation leads to a beautiful, peaceful revolution. A change from suffering and negativity to happiness and a life more and more free of any problems.”
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And included the single "I'm Waiting Here", with Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li
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Lynch wrote: "Transcendental Meditation leads to a beautiful, peaceful revolution
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “The Twin Peaks Archive”.
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“If I got an idea that I fell in love with, I”
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2011· 4 entries
Released album “Crazy Clown Time”.
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Released album “This Train”.
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Lynch released This Train with vocalist and longtime musical collaborator Chrystabell on the La Rose Noire label
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Released album “Good Day Today / I Know (Remixes)”.
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2010· 2 entries
Lynch began making guest appearances on the Family Guy spin-off The Cleveland Show as Gus the Bartender
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Released ep “Dubblestandart Meets David Lynch & Lee Scratch Perry”.
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2009· 10 entries
Released album “A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi”.
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The "Change Begins Within" concert featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Donovan, Sheryl Crow, Eddie Vedder, Moby, Bettye LaVette, Ben Harper, and Mike Love
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Lynch produced a documentary Web series directed by his son Austin Lynch and friend Jason S
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Lynch collaborated on Herzog's film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
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Lynch signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski who, while traveling to a film festival, was detained based on his 1977 arrest for alleged sexual abuse
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Lynch had plans to direct a documentary on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi consisting of interviews with people who knew him, but nothing came of it
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Lynch married actress Emily Stofle, who appeared in his 2006 film Inland Empire as well as the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks
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His book-CD set Dark Night of the Soul was released
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Lynch organized a benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall for the David Lynch Foundation
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Lynch went to India to film interviews with people who knew the Maharishi as part of a biographical documentary
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Industrial Symphony No. 1”.
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Started his own record label, David Lynch MC, which first released Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi in early 2009
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2007· 5 entries
Released album “Twin Peaks: Season Two Music and More”.
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2007).
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Released album “The Air Is on Fire”.
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Released album “Polish Night Music”.
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A panel of critics convened by The Guardian announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era", and AllMovie called him "the
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2006· 5 entries
Won Golden Lion (2006).
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Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2006).
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Lynch's feature film Inland Empire was released
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Lynch wrote a short book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, which describes his creative processes, stories from his career, and the benefits he realized from his practice of Transcendenta
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Said, "at that time [the 1990s], I thought of myself as a libertarian
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2002· 3 entries
Released ep “You're More Than That”.
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2002).
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Created a series of online shorts, DumbLand
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Cannes Best Director Award for Mulholland Drive (2001).
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Released BlueBob, a blues album performed by Lynch and John Neff
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Released album “BlueBob”.
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2000· 1 entry
“the loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion and devastation of the victim of incest”
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Non-European Film for The Straight Story (1999).
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Lynch approached ABC again with ideas for a television drama
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Lux Vivens”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released the non-linear noiresque Lost Highway, which was co-written by Barry Gifford and stars Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Saturn Awards (1993).
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Lynch collaborated with Japanese musician Yoshiki on the video for X Japan's song "Longing ~Setsubou no Yoru~"
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1992· 1 entry
And his editor Mary Sweeney had a son, Riley Sweeney Lynch
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1991· 1 entry
Lynch directed a 30-second teaser trailer for Michael Jackson's album Dangerous at Jackson's request
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
As a part of the New Music America Festival
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1983· 1 entry
Lynch began writing and drawing a comic strip, The Angriest Dog in the World, that featured unchanging graphics of a tethered dog so angry it could not move, alongside cryptic philosophical references
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Foreign Film for The Elephant Man (1982).
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Awarded César Award (1982).
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Released album “Eraserhead”.
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1977· 1 entry
Lynch married Jack Fisk's sister Mary Fisk
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1975· 1 entry
At the Spiritual Regeneration Movement center in Los Angeles
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1974· 1 entry
Lynch made The Amputee, a one-shot film about two minutes long
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1973· 2 entries
“missed a session since: twenty minutes, twice a day.”
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Lynch's sister suggested he try Transcendental Meditation
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1972· 1 entry
At night in some abandoned stables, allowing the production team (which was largely Lynch and some of his friends, including Sissy Spacek, Jack Fisk, cinematographer Frederick Elmes, and sound designer Alan Splet) to set
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1970· 1 entry
Moved with his wife and daughter to Los Angeles, where he began studying filmmaking at the AFI Conservatory, a place he later called "completely chaotic and disorganized, which was great
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1968· 1 entry
And played a cover of "Across the Universe"
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1964· 1 entry
Transferred to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where his roommate was future musician Peter Wolf
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1963· 1 entry
Lynch was the first in his school to hear of it, as he was working on a display case rather than attending class
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1946· 2 entries
Born 1946-01-20.
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The son of English-language tutor Edwina "Sunny" Lynch (née Sundholm) and USDA research scientist Donald Walton Lynch
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