David Lynch, Maker of Florid and Unnerving Films, Dies at 78

 

 

"Like Frank Capra and Franz Kafka, two widely disparate 20th-century artists whose work Mr. Lynch much admired and might be said to have synthesized, his name became an adjective.

 

The Lynchian “is at once easy to recognize and hard to define,” Dennis Lim wrote in his monograph “David Lynch: The Man From Another Place.” Made by a man with a longtime devotion to the technique of transcendental meditation, Mr. Lynch’s films were characterized by their dreamlike imagery and punctilious sound design, as well as by Manichaean narratives that pit an exaggerated, even saccharine innocence against depraved evil."

 

read obit by Jon Hoberman

David Lynch, Maker of Florid and Unnerving Films, Dies at 78 – DNyuz