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Birthday: Jan 20, Much like his body of work, David Lynch often defied tidy description. As a filmmaker it was possibly more instructive to refer to him as a surrealist artist working in the medium of film, rather than a traditional movie director and writer. From his debut feature "Eraserhead" , it was clear that Lynch held a deep fascination with the utterly grotesque residing just below the surface of the everyday. He would use that fascination to his advantage with his second film, the hugely successful "The Elephant Man" , only to be dealt a bitter blow by the disastrous, costly experience of "Dune" However, with the quasi-autobiographical thriller "Blue Velvet" , Lynch would establish a thematic aesthetic - dubbed "Lynchian" - that he would continue to evolve throughout his career. He also had tremendous, albeit brief, success in television with the series "Twin Peaks" ABC, , a murder mystery that temporarily tapped into the American zeitgeist. In the wake of the series' end, Lynch instinctive defied expectations, releasing the exceedingly violent "Wild at Heart" and the almost universally reviled but later reappraised "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"
His films juxtapose the cheerfully mundane with the shockingly macabre and often defy explanation. His early ambition was to become a painter, and, after graduating from high school in Alexandria , Virginia , he enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He later —69 studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he created his first film, a second animation entitled Six Men Getting Sick , for an experimental painting and sculpture contest. Shot over a period of a few years, the hallucinatory film baffled and repelled critics and many viewers, but it eventually became a cult favourite on the midnight movie circuit. The film won several awards, and Lynch was nominated for Academy Awards for best director and for adapted screenplay. Dino De Laurentiis then hired Lynch to adapt and direct the science-fiction epic Dune , a film adaptation of the classic novel by Frank Herbert that was a critical and box-office failure.
David Keith Lynch born January 20, is an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, writer and actor. In , 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', [7] while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". Lynch initially studied painting before he began making short films in the late s. His first feature-length film, the surrealist horror Eraserhead , became a success on the midnight movie circuit, and he followed that by directing The Elephant Man , Dune , and Blue Velvet Lynch next created his own television series with Mark Frost , the popular murder mystery Twin Peaks —91 , which ran for two seasons.
