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David Lynch has died
- fibers 2y agorip to a legend
- throw0101c 2y ago* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch
- NoGravitas 2y agoRIP to one of my favorite filmmakers.
- losthobbies 2y agoOh that’s really sad. A favourite director of mine.
- canucker2016 2y agoEraserhead - my mind is still trying to make sense of it
- jsheard 2y agoBelieve it or not, it was his most spiritual film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjoMEw2RYlA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjoMEw2RYlA
- canucker2016 2y ago==== Host: "Elaborate on that..." David Lynch: "No, I won't." [Host and audience laughs] ==== Gee - that creates even more questions. [edit] Here's the start of the Eraserhead portion of the interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpomrL0qA-E&t=372s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpomrL0qA-E&t=372s
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- spokaneplumb 2y agoIt's OK to just not care for things. Sometimes those things will be good. It's still OK to not care for them. It's also OK to like bad things. I like lots of bad things.
- Reefersleep 2y ago"Fear and anguish of parenthood" as a movie?
- usrnm 2y agoThis is incredibly sad news. I guess I'm rewatching "Mulholland Drive" tonight
- andrewstuart 2y agoLynch's was still my favorite version of Dune despite flaws.
- sho_hn 2y agoYep, no contest. Compared to the sterile, boring, brooding Villeneuve version - a tone that worked well in Blade Runner 2049 however - it's so much more entertaining and interesting.
- andrewstuart 2y agoI liked the first one from Villeneuve because for the most part it stuck to the story but the second one veered off into its own story. I know its nerdy but I absolutely hate when movies of classic books think the story needs to be changed (I'm looking at you, Peter Jackson).
- angry_moose 2y agoI'm still reserving judgement. In a vacuum I don't love the changes he made to Part 2 but I can also see how they will make it flow much better into Part 3 than Dune > Dune Messiah ever did (that always felt disjointed to me); as well as make that story more compelling.
- andrewstuart 2y agoI wish just for once these directors had simply made the movie of the book and damn the consequences of what Hollywood thinks audiences want. The movies that directors such as Peter Jackson make are brilliantly done - if only the story wasn't hacked. And that's not even addressing the worst of the travesties such as Radagast the Brown being covered in bird shit and the dwarves in The Hobbit being a bunch of circus clowns.
- jajko 2y agoIts often not directors defining pacing and length of the result, but producer/studio. A lot of bitter conflicts came up from this.
- philipov 2y agoHere's a non-facebook link for anyone who refuses to use that site: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/ https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director...
- wut42 2y agoThank you. I was hesitating to post the facebook source but back when I submitted there was no other coverage.
- freedomben 2y agoHN guidelines prefer the original source when possible, so you did the right thing IMHO.
- wut42 2y agoApparently not! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729717 Funny :)
- freedomben 2y agoOh damn haha, a good example I suppose that "guidelines" aren't meant to be hard rules :-)
- jamesfmilne 2y agoAlso on The Grauniad https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twin-peaks-and-muholland-drive-director-dies-aged-78 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...
- dang 2y agoOk, we'll use that above, since it has so much more information. (Submitted url was https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/it-is-with-deep-regret-that-we-his-family-announce-the-passing-of-the-man-and-th/1179118190251944/ https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/it-is-with....) Another relevant link people may want to look at: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-lynch-blue-velvet-mulholland-drive-1236110711/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-ly... Looks like NYT haven't published their full obituary yet.
- phantom_wizard 2y agoSad news, he was a genius creator - I like to think about him as Salvador Dali of our times. For sure his works will be remembered.
- throwaway29303 2y agoRIP, master. You'll be missed. ;~;7
- mcbuilder 2y agoWhat a guy, managed to meet him once! Sad all those American Spirits probably caused his untimely death.
- sho_hn 2y agoIn his own views: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/15/david-lynch-emphysema-diagnosis-urges-smokers-to-quit https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/15/david-lynch-emp...
- evanelias 2y agoRest in peace to a one-of-a-kind creative genius. Strangely I just rewatched Inland Empire last night for the first time since seeing it in the theater, so this is hitting extra hard. In addition to his incredible film/television work, I'd like to give a shout-out to his other forms of artistic expression which often got less attention. His musical output captured the same unique vibe as his films, for example his album Crazy Clown Time is almost certainly best enjoyed in a smoky room with syncopated strobe lights and patterned flooring. His mixed-media paintings and sculpture were also impressively unsettling.
- saijanai 2y agoFor Lynch his most important work was promoting his foundation Here's a nationally televised discussion he had with the President of Ukraine about teaching 100,000 veterans to meditate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7-mErKWlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7-mErKWlc . His final public appearance was a video he sent to a fundraiser for his foundation last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_lynchs_speech_at_meditate_america_2024/ https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l... ______ * May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no-one. Peace. Jai guru dev ________
- Electricniko 2y agoThis video of Angelo Badalamenti explaining how they came up with Laura Palmer's theme is a neat little look into his creativity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eqgr_gn4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eqgr_gn4k
- jonhohle 2y agoDuring Covid I started watching his daily weather update, even though I didn’t live in LA. Virtually every day was the same. Very clear. Very still. I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative. He always left so much unsaid and open to interpretation, just like life. They are movies designed to make the viewer feel a certain way, rather than literally what’s in the screen. He was one of the few directors that I thought of as making weird things that I would enjoy (most of the time), but how could anyone else? “I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”
- antognini 2y agoIt took me a little while to be convinced that he was actually reporting the weather as it was like at his home rather than saying the same thing every day. But, no, he was really reporting the weather and the weather is really just always like that in LA.
- tanseydavid 2y ago"Los Angeles, every day, hot and sunny, today, hot and sunny, tomorrow, hot and, for the rest of the… hot and sunny, every single day, hot and sunny. And they love it. 'Isn’t great, every day, hot and sunny?' What are you, a @$%^& lizard?" - Bill Hicks
- jamestimmins 2y agoI've been in LA for 14 years, and I always say LA has great weather in the same way a mall has good weather. It's never unpleasant and is always "perfect", but at some point you miss the feeling of breeze and slight variations and it feels like you're breathing air from a can.
- sharkweek 2y agoI’m in Seattle and during the summer heat, the city dries and sometimes ends up with smokey haze from wildfires. Then comes that random rainy day at the end of the heatwave, gives the city a shower it needs and the fresh smell is unbeatable. I’m not sure what heaven smells like, but if I had to guess it’s like the air after summer rain in my city.
- tannhaeuser 2y agoHow sad. Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (the IMO under-appreciated pilot), and yes his Dune even though he didn't like it are some of my favourite movies of all time. RIP
- g-b-r 2y ago100% for his Dune Hopefully it will get reappraised, now
- loevborg 2y agoOne of the most brilliant failures of move history
- heresie-dabord 2y agoBlue Velvet and Elephant Man. Discover them or help someone else discover them.
- tannhaeuser 2y agoOf course I know them (actually watched Elephant Man as a kid on the big screen!). Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive just sting harder as unspeakable reflection on who we pretend to be to ourselves vs how we might look in the eyes of a cruel society IMO if my interpretation isn't totally nuts. I think I'm going to watch MD right now in memoriam!
- hinkley 2y agoWe discovered a cut that was about three hours that people who hadn’t read the book seemed to understand. Had a different intro and flowed better. I’ve seen three versions of this movie. The theatrical and the longest one both sucked for anyone not a Herbert fan. I thought the longest was the director’s cut but he never did one. Perhaps it was the TV movie cut. But I don’t know what the “good” one was called.
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- diggan 2y agoSad to hear. Personally I think I've only seen Mulholland Drive before, but long time ago. I enjoy surreal movies in general, so kind of weird I haven't seen more of Lynch's work. What personal favorites do other HNers have, of what he'd done?
- Starlevel004 2y agoTwin Peaks is the best TV show ever made
- darkr 2y agoThe first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
- 508LoopDetected 2y agoBut it's very much redeemed by the third season, which is every bit as good as the first season, albeit rather different in tone.
- chikenf00t 2y agoPart 8 of season 3 left a deep impression on me. I still think about it regularly.
- kgwgk 2y ago"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within." (I had to check if that was part 8 - but of course it is.)
- spokaneplumb 2y agoLast few episodes are great again, and then we got Fire Walk With Me which is awesome. Also check out the feature-length The Missing Pieces composed of scenes cut from Fire Walk, if you haven't. Frankly I find even the "bad" stretch of S2 better than more than half of allegedly-good TV, anyway.
- tumsfestival 2y agoShit. I wasn't expecting him to die anytime soon, so this came as a surprise. RIP
- saijanai 2y agoHe had to retire due to emphysema. The work of his Foundation continues (as though anyone here takes it seriously).
- tumsfestival 2y agoI wasn't keeping up with his personal life, so it makes more sense now considering his illness. I still find it crazy how he remained a smoker for basically all his life even after it was proven to be awful for your health.
- tonymet 2y agoOne of the few mainstream Directors capable of producing an "emotional experience" rather than a strict narrative. If you've found his movies baffling, or non-sensical try to approach them with this mindset.
- ctack 2y agoBlue Velvet. Twin Peaks. Lost Highway.. No words, just a feeling somewhere between waking and dreaming.
- antognini 2y agoDuring the pandemic David Lynch released a daily weather video in which he reported what the weather was at his home in Los Angeles. First video was May 11, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIj6eLF4mU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIj6eLF4mU Last video was December 16, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21GFyOO8Ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21GFyOO8Ug He also released a daily video in which he drew a bingo number. I can't really imagine any other major director doing something like that in their late 70s.
- woodson 2y agoI also liked his interview project: https://youtube.com/@davidlynchpresentsIP https://youtube.com/@davidlynchpresentsIP
- briteside 2y agoActually he started this back in 2005
- wahnfrieden 2y agoAs part of his pre-YouTube digital media website along other works like Rabbits
- saijanai 2y agoHIs final video was sent to his foundation's fundraiser last year because he couldn't attend: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_lynchs_speech_at_meditate_america_2024/ https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l... These were the very last words he spoke: ______ May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no-one. Peace. Jai guru dev ________
- shanecleveland 2y agoLove Twin Peaks. Puget Sound resident here. I can see the big driftwood log Laura Palmer was found next to from my window.
- fallinghawks 2y agoTwin Peaks was delightfully weird. It was the sole reason I bought a TV, believe it or not.
- MisterTea 2y agoAnother nice thing about Twin Peaks is it inspired Chris Carter's X-files and the early X-files seasons have that same dreary feel to them Twin Peaks did.
- tines 2y agoX-Files was another amazing show. A must-watch for my kids, when they come of age for it.
- dfxm12 2y agoAside from, obviously, David Duchovny, more than a handful of the regular Twin Peaks cast showed up in the X Files. Shapes ft. Michael Horse and Humbug ft. Michael J. Anderson are two particularly great early episodes.
- MisterTea 2y agoDon S. Davis played Maj. Garland Briggs in Twin Peaks and Captain William Scully, Dana Scully's father in the X-files first season (and in one or two later cameos). In both he plays a stuffy high ranking military officer which is quite amusing.
- drooopy 2y agoRIP Don S. Davis, aka 90 TV's best military dad.
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- dhfbshfbu4u3 2y ago“Beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way…”
- psyclobe 2y agoHeineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon! Never tripped out harder than watching Blue Velvet one lonely night. Also Twin Peaks, so trippy. A true legend RIP
- jeffwask 2y agoSad day for film fans and a sad day for Phillip Morris stockholders.
- sgt 2y agoDo you think the LA wildfires and poor air quality accelerated his death? He had emfysemia
- micromacrofoot 2y agoProbably didn't help, but the man had been smoking since he was 8 years old and was at the point where he needed supplemental oxygen just to walk.
- jeffwask 2y agoI would guess it probably triggered a crisis. He did an interview last year? where he talked about how bad his health was and his smoking. I read he had to be evacuated but I'm not certain it's true. That would have been a major stressor on him.
- whism 2y agoOne of the greats
- themadturk 2y agoMulholland Drive is one of my all-time favorites. A genius director!
- calebm 2y agoSame.
- loevborg 2y agoYes for me it's a tie between Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway. I also prefer Mulholland drive. The news makes me sad, I feel like I've lost a friend, even though I never met Lynch.
- throw_pm23 2y agoMy favorite is Lost Highway. And here's what I think it is "about": unbearable remorse.
- Trasmatta 2y agoLynch's ability to make the most unnerving scenes I've ever seen was incredible. And he ostensibly wasn't even making horror movies. Something about this scene (and so many others): triggers something deep in my soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig
- sitkack 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKd2YldRvB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKd2YldRvB8
- ilamont 2y agoIt's amazing how some of the smaller, passing shots from his films stick with you. I haven't seen Elephant Man for decades but the scene at the beginning when he's at a freak show and his handler is forcing him to turn around for the audience still haunts me. Same for many of the scenes in Wild At Heart.
- dfxm12 2y agoHe saved a lot of great dialog for himself: "I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die". RIP.
- doom2 2y agoThat this was specifically about telling transphobes to knock it off feels very relevant in the current moment.
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- jsheard 2y agoSad to see that you're too scared to own your words. user: zhuu created: 11 minutes ago
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- eukara 2y agoIf you don't even stand behind your statements you are nothing but a coward. Why would anyone take you seriously
- michaelmrose 2y agoI've always felt confused by the idea that viewing a users public profile should be considered somehow private and that clicking on their name in a post should be considered stalking. The fact that it should be available implies that its expected functionality and that one should expect prior posts to be visible and read. In this case the info obtained is that you know this opinion is disfavored enough that you created a separate account to express it. Again pretty obvious and in itself unlike the opinion pretty noncontroversial
- ryanmcbride 2y agoDavid Lynch has been my favorite director and one of my favorite people for most of my life. His work and outlook has influenced almost everything I've ever created. He changed the way I saw the world for better. I'm really sincerely going to miss what he brought to the world
- dylan604 2y agoWhat he brought to the world isn't leaving. What he could have brought will never be experienced though.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoThat’s beautifully put... An undeniable grief in knowing that the new worlds he might have opened up for us, will never come
- ryanmcbride 2y agoYeah that's more what I meant, that he can't continue to make things, especially knowing how he was planning a series with Netflix.
- Dansvidania 2y agoI am going to miss him. Not only his art but his personality. We need that kind of crazy.
- karim79 2y agoAbsolutely. He's my favourite artist, and for me no one else comes close. R.I.P Mr. Lynch.
- monophonica 2y agoSame here. Julee Cruise/Lynch/Badalamenti - Floating into the Night album is really fitting music for right now. Into the Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsLJxUEbkG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsLJxUEbkG8
- handfuloflight 2y ago"My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it's supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow, and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. Because I grew up in a perfect world, other things were a contrast." David Lynch
- ryandrake 2y agoReminiscent of the opening scene of Blue Velvet.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoI find it interesting how much Ebert hated that movie. I'm not sure how I feel about it myself, tbh, but I am certain I don't have his conviction to state it clearly and unambiguously. The film certainly made me feel things no other movie has.
- havblue 2y agoI think if you're giving original opinions about movies it guarantees that you're going to be on the wrong side of history eventually. His reviews aren't any less interesting even when you disagree with him.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoI'm not really convinced he's on "the wrong side"—we're entitled to strong opinions about the role of film in society and this is either value-oriented or subjective. But I emphatically do admire his willingness to stake his claim without ambiguity. > His reviews aren't any less interesting even when you disagree with him. 100%
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- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://archive.today/ySju3 https://archive.today/ySju3 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/
- dukeofdoom 2y agoThis video of him raging against the corporate machine, really humanizes him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kaMQCbKn4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kaMQCbKn4
- leotravis10 2y agoTime to rewatch most of his films this weekend, a true visionary that we lost today and his contributions will live on forever.
- pelagicAustral 2y agoOh man! that's depressing... I always remember the appearances he made on "Louie", as a talent agent... He was so funny, I choose to believe that he wasn't acting at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEJbs02wAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEJbs02wAM
- xanderlewis 2y agoOh! Thanks for reminding me why his face is so familiar. (I’m not someone who knows anything about film…)
- f00l82 2y agoA Facebook post? Gross
- hestefisk 2y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twin-peaks-and-muholland-drive-director-dies-aged-78 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...
- g-b-r 2y agoSo sad Among everything else, he made me discover one of my favourite bands, Au Revoir Simone
- tanseydavid 2y agoThanks for sharing. TIL that there's a band named after a quote in "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure".
- sergiotapia 2y agoHaven't seen a director before or since with such a grasp of mystery and command of dreamlike sequences. The world lost one of the great directors of our time.
- bena 2y agoDavid Lynch embodies the quote from Thelonious Monk: "The genius is the one most like himself." No matter what he did, no matter what you think of his works, he never compromised on being himself.
- saucymew 2y agoHaving just read Lynch's Catching Big Fish, two quotes stood out to me: "There's safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. " "The light can make all the difference in a film, even in a character. I love seeing people come out of darkness." What an interesting man. RIP.
- Frummy 2y agoHe said something like, in speaking with a therapist, ”if i get therapy, is there a risk i’ll lose my creativity?”, and she said ”yes”. So he didn’t take it if i recall, and did this transcendental meditation thing instead. That’s someone who loves his art.
- calebio 2y ago100%. As he's described it himself, he was certainly dedicated to the art life.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoNYT Obit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.Zq3R.nksU3-0d3Uvn&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-dead.h...
- tanseydavid 2y agoWow -- I am shocked to read this news. I don't consider too many people to be personal heroes but I did think of David Lynch in this way. Rest in peace. Thank you for your creative output and your mad-passion for film and meditation.
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- fumeux_fume 2y agoRIP to a legend. I remember renting the world's worst quality VHS tapes of Twin Peaks before the DVD remaster came out, but loving every second of it (excluding the James and Donna duet of course). Coincidentally, I'm on a road trip across the state and made plans to stop at Tweede's for lunch.
- slowhadoken 2y agoI was thinking of him last night after watching an old David Foster Wallace interview. Lynch was one of a kind.
- aidenn0 2y agoI will eat quinoa for dinner tonight in his honor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc
- miguelxpn 2y agoThe third season of Twin Peaks is the best piece of television I ever watched. Rest in peace, you will be missed.
- panzerboiler 2y agoToday no cinema.
- gordon_freeman 2y agoDavid Lynch was a giant in film directing with his unique vision and surreal style and he gave us so many great movies. But more importantly I feel that he inspired so many modern movie directors such as Ari Aster and Yorgos Lanthimos to make movies like that. I put Lynch in the same category of greatness as Kubrick and Tarkovsky. True genius!
- Berowne 2y agoLynch anecdote (you can find it on YouTube). Kubrick invited some movie people to see his favorite film (no qualifiers) 'Eraserhead'
- Lerc 2y agoSomedays I long for a world where everyone has a touch more of the mad creativity he had. Perhaps we do and we just need to nurture it more. Also the Mr Plow-ish of all playstation advertisements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf9vpJMDjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf9vpJMDjA
- spokaneplumb 2y agoGood lord. He put a bunch of things in that that he'd use in Twin Peaks: The Return. Wild.
- julienchastang 2y agoVery sad. I had the privilege of watching the late Roger Ebert deconstruct "Mulholland Drive" at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado during the daily Cinema Interruptus. Each day for a week, we spent an hour or two analyzing the film, with anyone in the audience able to shout "stop" to pause the screening and discuss any aspect of the movie with Ebert. His insights and thoughtful manner of speaking about film left a lasting impression on me. RIP.
- loevborg 2y agoI'm surprised, sad. Maybe the last of the big directors, certainly my favorite. Here's Lynch making quinoa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc&ab_channel=scaynes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc&ab_channel=scayn...
- superposeur 2y agoHa ha, first time I’ve seen another reference to this! Back in the day, I got such a kick out of his description that I began imitating it myself, calling it my “David Lynch Special” dish.
- Trasmatta 2y agoI'm so grateful he was able to make Twin Peaks: The Return before he passed. It's one of the most brilliant and moving pieces of fiction I've ever experienced. If they had started it just a few years later it may have never been finished.
- spokaneplumb 2y agoSome of the people who returned for it died not long after it wrapped. The "Log Lady" might have died before it wrapped, even, can't recall. Miguel Ferrer wasn't around much longer. Even with Lynch living a good while past it, it'd have been far more limited production if it'd started even a couple years after it did. They already had to do without Bowie and a few others that it seems Lynch might have liked to use (given what he did with the season), like Frank Silva (BOB) of course, and notably Don Davis (Major Garland Briggs).
- Trasmatta 2y agoWow, what a great point. The Return actually being created is a miracle in so many ways. And the fact that it actually was released 25 years after Laura said "I'll see you in 25 years"? I'm not a spiritual person, but it does feel like the universe wanted that show to be made! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL57-9171pk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL57-9171pk
- mrandish 2y ago> The "Log Lady" might have died before it wrapped Yes, she was terminally ill and in hospice care. Lynch moved up the filming of her scenes as well as writing the part so she wouldn't need to travel. The fans really embraced her in the years after the original show aired, inviting her to conventions, etc. She wanted to finish her character's role for the fans before she died.
- snapetom 2y agoIt was heart-wrenching to watch those scenes. You never knew whether it was the last episode you'd see her.
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- roiboosxh 2y agoToday, no movies…
- agentcooper 2y agoTerribly sad. His movies were a significant discovery for me and are now forever in my heart.
- sitkack 2y agoI saw Dune in the theater when I 9, I had no concept of who DL was at the time. But by the time I was in my teens ad saw Eraserhead and Twin Peaks it all gelled into the kind of creative breadth that one person could accomplish. The world is so much better for having been visited by DL. His bit with the Cow on median in Hollywood is hilarious.
- onosendai 2y agoI'm incredibly saddened by his passing away, even if it was expected given the recent decline of his health. I'm not going to touch on his films, which are all special and definitely worth watching, but if anyone who didn't know him wants a primer on his complex, sometimes surreal, but I think ultimately endearing personality, then this is a nice introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0
- saijanai 2y agoHe knew he was about to die. He sent this to his Foundation's fundraiser last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_lynchs_speech_at_meditate_america_2024/ https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l... His last words were: ______ * May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no-one. Peace. Jai guru dev ________
- karaokeyoga 2y agoI loved his sense of humor.
- squidsoup 2y agoFarewell eagle scout from Missoula, Montana.
- gyre007 2y agoI can't think of a director in the new generation of movie directors who are as original as most of the pieces made by DL. RIP, maestro!
- Lio 2y agoThis makes me sad the same way that the death of David Bowie did. “You’ve been seen associating with chickens Jack!” Without David Lynch the world is just a little bit duller today. :(
- pmarreck 2y agoThis is an odd coincidence only because I've been stuck on playing https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/beyond https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/beyond today, which culminates in a sample from a Twin Peaks episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_6kDHWsEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_6kDHWsEM (it's the "I've been looking out beyond the edge of the board" scene)
- frereubu 2y agoI think this is one of those moments where the phrase "don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened" feels appropriate given his rich body of work.
- arpa 2y ago"Today, no music"
- UncleSlacky 2y ago"Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?" - David Lynch
- neycoda 2y agoAwww We knew the day would come. What a legend of a man and artist. A recent living Dali, but far more underappreciated (even by those who loved him and didn't quite understand what his art was saying). I only hope to see more like him.
- retinaros 2y agoI was young when dune was released and a big fan of herbert books. there was also star wars that ive seen at the same time. Dune is still today to me one of the great SF movies and I count a very few I really love (cloud atlas is another more recent one, speed racer too). All his weirder movies were great experiences but my favorite ever Lynch movie is the Straight Story. such a perfect beautiful movie. I loved badalamenti music as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCzAetSFRC8&ab_channel=amasterofnothing1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCzAetSFRC8&ab_channel=amast... I always thought writing and directing a movie of pure kindness and making it interesting as a piece of great art was the real mark of genius.
- mtraven 2y ago"You know about death...that it's just a change, not an end." – The Log Lady
- _yb2s 2y agoJust when his work seemed like it was about to come back around and start to make sense, he would throw you for another loop that was the furthest thing from making any sense- and as a result could consistently create a set of childlike wonder, curiosity, and awe that are rarely experienced by adults nowadays. Like a zen koan, the unexplainably of it could consistently shock the viewer back into experiencing the entire breadth of human emotion and experience that is outside of rational understanding. David Lynch's work was mind blowingly creative and original work in a sea of boring media made by committees trying to extract a little more profit from the same few banal formulas over and over. I'm shocked and grateful he was able to fund and produce things that were so weird and fascinating. The owls are not what they seem.
- sharkweek 2y agoThe late David Foster Wallace said one of the only directors he found interesting was David Lynch. https://youtu.be/C0Cvtu2FfGw?si=1_wk8fPMeeHYLrxl https://youtu.be/C0Cvtu2FfGw?si=1_wk8fPMeeHYLrxl I love that DFW wrote an essay about Lost Highway and used the term “Lynchian” (something horrific sitting right next to something mundane in a scene). Charlie Rose asked Lynch about the phrase and didn’t really know how to respond. Rose then brings this up with DFW who kinda chuckles and implies that was what he would expect. Two extremely talented and intelligent creatives, but where DFW cared quite a bit how he was perceived, I don’t think Lynch ever gave a shit. Lynch was on another plane of creativity and I’m not sure he even really knew it. He just did what he wanted to do (except for the original Dune film…)and let people take away from it what they might. I honestly cant say I “enjoy” Lynch films but I will be the first to admit there is heart and soul poured into them by a genius.
- saijanai 2y agoDavid Lynch's final message to the world: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_lynchs_speech_at_meditate_america_2024/ https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l... _____ May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no-one. Peace. Jai guru dev __________ . RIP David Lynch, 20 January 1946 - 16 January 2025
- saijanai 2y agoDavid Lynch's final message to the world, a video he sent to a fundraiser for his foundation last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_lynchs_speech_at_meditate_america_2024/ https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l... ___________ May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no-one. Peace. Jai guru dev _______ RIP David Lynch, 20 January 1946 - 16 January 2025
- ilvez 2y agoNo hay banda!
- jncfhnb 2y agoI’ve slowly become aware, over time, that David Lynch and David Bowie seemed to be the social bridge that was secretly connecting all of the artists I like across seemingly every medium. Like an erdos number for these two davids that seemed to drive good outcomes
- ndrake 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTrTtzTQrv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTrTtzTQrv0
- saijanai 2y agoFor David Lynch, his work with his foundation was the most important thing he did. . * [Here's the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation receiving the thanks of the Herndon, Virginia police department for teaching them TM for free:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikMi0xqS8fU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikMi0xqS8fU) * Here's David Lynch chatting with President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, about teaching Ukrainian 100,000 veterans TM to help them with their PTSD.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7-mErKWlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7-mErKWlc) * [Here's David Lynch meditating with 5,000 kids that his Foundation taught TM for free to in Brazil.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJD-M2FpKNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJD-M2FpKNU) * [Here's Smithsonian Magazine's take on the David LynchFoundation (they gave him an award as Innovator of the Year for the work of his Foundation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iBaJ2K7JOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iBaJ2K7JOo) * [David Lynch discussing the work of his Foundation.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxhkd_fZUTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxhkd_fZUTE) * [Excerpts from the first David Lynch Foundation benefit concert (billed as "the Beatles Reunion concert by the press as it was headlined by Sir Paul and Sir Ringo)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJg5mKuCh7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJg5mKuCh7A) * [Saving the disposable ones](https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/8239/saving-the-disposable-ones https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/pl...) — a David Lynch Foundation. documentary about the work of Father Gabriel Mejia, a Roman Catholic priest whose Foundation has rescued 40,000 child prostitutes over the past 2 decades and taught them TM as therapy for PTSD. * [Impacting Children’s Health Through Meditation Globally](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg&t=230s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg&t=230s) - the David Lynch Foundation's invited presentation at the Vatican about their work. For more info, see: [The David Lynch Foundation](http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org) and [Fundación David Lynch de América Latina](https://fundaciondavidlynch.org https://fundaciondavidlynch.org)
- AIorNot 2y agoI found this video of his on his spiritual beliefs to be very insightful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4mTxm9sQg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4mTxm9sQg0 RIP
- aalukabi 2y agoi hadn't seen it before, its so in-depth and informative. May be he was getting all those crazy ideas from Transcendental Meditation :)
- Fricken 2y agoRegardless of how his films come together as a whole, Lynch is without a doubt the most prolific producer of haunting and unforgettable imagery that inhabits my mind. A few months ago I rewatched, on Youtube a scene from the Elephant Man, a film I saw once 30 years ago. The scene was just like I remember it, I only to watch it that one time and it was etched into my mind forever, crystalline. Dune is more fun to watch and seems to have emerged as my all-time favorite film. In spite of it's flaws and Lynch's own disdain for it, the orphaned film is no less visionary, and is as strikingly original as anything Lynch has made.
- noisy_boy 2y ago> Dune is more fun to watch and seems to have emerged as my all-time favorite film. In spite of it's flaws and Lynch's own disdain for it, the orphaned film is no less visionary, and is as strikingly original as anything Lynch has made. I don't get all the disdain for his Dune. For its time, I found it quite entertaining. The scene of the menacing black tank containing the guild navigator emerging out of fumes at the emperor's court will stay with me. Obviously it can't compare in terms of effects or the subtleties of the latest version but it was impressive nevertheless. Without his version, I wouldn't even have known about Dune.
- sideshowb 2y agoNot without its issues but it also prominently featured the mentats, which the recent version didn't.
- noisy_boy 2y agoGood point. Same with guild navigators - the whole point of the bickering is spice and the whole point of spice is navigation. I get the DV's less-is-more aesthetic but these were deep and exciting subjects that weren't explored much.
- Barrin92 2y agoI don't know if this is the thing to remember him for, but given that we're on a long running message board, Lynch actually also used to run one long after he was already famous, and it probably produced one of the most Lynchian videos on the internet, him trying to read out an unpronounceable forum members username with panties from another fan in his mouth. https://x.com/JFrankensteiner/status/1480286294634909697 https://x.com/JFrankensteiner/status/1480286294634909697 He wasn't just a great creator with all the stuff that made him famous but genuinely funny and creative as a person, sad day.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoLots already said about his films here, I'll just add that I recently watched "Lynch/Oz" which is a documentary that explores Lynch's lifelong obsession with The Wizard of Oz and how he often worked the themes of Oz into his films: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15399286/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15399286/
- throwaway123lol 2y agoLooks cool, I'll check that out.
- ElDji 2y agoIn heaven everything is fine. Thanks you David to have shared with us your art life.
- lqet 2y agoI was relaxing with my family in the living room this evening, and suddenly I heard familiar trance-like guitar sounds from the kitchen radio. I listened for a few seconds, then my wife heard it, and said, "ah, Twin Peaks". We all listened quietly for a while to Falling by Julee Cruise, and I wondered why a mainstream radio station would play this song. Now I know why.
- bilekas 2y agoOuch.. I'm sad to just see this here for the first time. He's for sure, 100% had an impact on how my mind had grown as a child. It's sending shivers down my back to think of the people I was with when we touched the edge of the reality through 1 person. I'm happy I never met him, not in the sense of meeting your heros, but in the sense of, 'some things are better left unsaid'. I took that with me after blue velvet, I didn't get that movie when i first saw it, I didn't pretend to, but I took that experience with me.. I argue sometimes how some topics are unrelated to Tech (hn) that get a good ratio, but this one really is one that makes me appreciate the method of madness. Rest in peace big man. I'm who I am thanks to your work. Edit with appreciation " (I still don't 'get' his movies) They impact my thinking.
- willidiots 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0 This little video is such a great tribute to him. RIP David.
- dhdjruf 2y agoRoman polanski defender. He signed the letter. Never forget
- mesofile 2y ago“The time has come for you to seek the Path. Your soul has set you face to face before the clear light ... and now you are about to experience it in its Reality, wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum, without circumference or center... At this moment, know yourself and abide in that state.”
- Flatcircle 2y agoI actually cried when I heard the news, not because he was one of my favorite directors exactly, but because you could feel a sense that an archetype for the arts of a generation left the earth. A seismic passing.
- Flatcircle 2y agoDavid Foster Wallace on David Lynch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Cvtu2FfGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Cvtu2FfGw
- ericzawo 2y agoIf you haven't watched Mulholland Drive, just go watch it.
- yowayb 2y agoI find most fiction to be a weak substitute for life, but I found the ending of Twin Peaks (when Agent Cooper is turned by The Lodge) profound
- Funes- 2y agoMay he rest in peace. I started watching everything he filmed when I was around 14 and immediately fell in love with his artistry. I recommend watching The Art Life (2018), about him, or just about any video featuring him that you can find on the Internet. Great character, indeed.
- pyuser583 2y agoIn old enough I’ve seen many heros die. But this is the first time I’m honestly surprised. I was holding out hope he was actually immortal. I know that sounds really weird, but that’s the sort of thing he inspired. If anybody was going to live for ever it would be him.
- wildpeaks 2y agoHe was the reason for half my username, so long maestro.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoIt's very sad. Two projects by David Lynch remain unfinished due to the director's illness: the film Antelope Don’t Run No More, which rumors suggest was completed back in 2010, and a Netflix series titled Wisteria/Unrecorded Night. I hope we get to see at least something from these...
- Dukuo 2y agoI made a simple tribute site out of grief, just launched it. https://lynchforever.vercel.app https://lynchforever.vercel.app ... Would love for you to leave a message, or feedback on how we can improve it (it was made in a couple of hours)
- darepublic 2y agoLoved the Twin Peaks tv series. Also the eighties Dune movie is a gold mine for awesome clips. RIP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4NWOyPp1yg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4NWOyPp1yg
- fallinditch 2y agoI have enjoyed pretty much all of David Lynch's work. A particular standout for me is episode 8 of Twin Peaks season 3, titled "Got a Light?" - for my money the greatest TV episode ever, an incredible high cultural landmark. In one breathtaking sequence David Lynch uses Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima", which depicts the Trinity atomic bomb test. The piece, composed in 1961 for 52 string instruments, mirrors the destruction and chaos of the atomic bomb detonation. Lynch used the composition during the startling sequence tracking into the heart of the nuclear test's mushroom cloud. https://youtu.be/vYg8nos8SdA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/vYg8nos8SdA?feature=shared
- ronnirradd 2y ago+1 This scene was so moving. Seeing it for the first time floored me.
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- itsyourbedtime 2y agoskimmed through comments, and it seems like no one mentioned his music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbtUAlFN8po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbtUAlFN8po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QJpY2VNP0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QJpY2VNP0E rip
- artur_makly 2y agoHis secret to his creativity and life: https://youtu.be/BH4qD5Fzyjk https://youtu.be/BH4qD5Fzyjk
- artur_makly 2y agoHe made DUNE. Few could at that time. His thoughts on it: https://youtu.be/fG18Na5PDTg?si=eC-DtnuEWwouhr07 https://youtu.be/fG18Na5PDTg?si=eC-DtnuEWwouhr07
- xtiansimon 2y agoFamily announced on Facebook? Ironic, since David had said he was not on Facebook. God speed you shinny diamond. At 1:26 https://youtu.be/UwPprWxt9oo https://youtu.be/UwPprWxt9oo
- beej71 2y agoThis morning I got up and poured myself a damned fine cup of coffee. RIP.