Director Spotlight
Season 09

DAVID LYNCH

David Lynch spent his career — from 1977 to 2006 — making films that exist nowhere else in cinema — works that operate according to their own internal logic, somewhere between waking life and the most...

1977 – 2006
2 films
American
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2001
Mulholland Drive
2001 · 147 min · Mystery · Drama

A cocktail of fantasy and real life, wrapped in a rotting Hollywood vibe. Lynch has masterfully portrayed the reality of a fantasy — the workings of our brains, human motivation, and the particular way that obsession rewrites everything around it.

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10 / 15
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1986
Blue Velvet
1986 · 120 min · Mystery · Thriller

Lynch undiluted — just not his most rewarding. A clean, linear good-versus-evil story told with all of Lynch's visual instincts fully intact. The use of colour is one of the film's genuine pleasures.

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6 / 15
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