David Lynch – Biography of David Lynch

David lynch was born in 1946, in Missoula, Montana, United States.

Lynch He lived his childhood like any other child and at the age of 15 he moved with his parents to Virginia.

David keith lynch He is the largest independent director in the United States. A controversial and bizarre genius who makes people talk and leaves more than billions of people speechless.

In the year 1965 David began to be interested in cinema and art, entering the prestigious Pennsylvania Acadamy of Fine Arts, in which he was able to find his own aesthetic path.

He traveled to Europe to try to establish links on painting with the great Oskar Kokoschka, in Austria. But given the lack of inspiration in Europe, David He returned to the United States, after having traveled a magnificent 15 days.

He married twice and had a daughter with his first wife and a son with his second.

His first successful attempts at short films were “Six Men Getting Sick“, for which he received an award and”The Alphabet“.

With the short “The grandmother“in 1970, Lynch managed to get the necessary subsidy for his first feature film, which he titled “Eraserhead“, a dark and twisted movie, one of the most surreal o Lyncheanas of all time, almost unbearable to watch.

In the year 1971, Lynch went to Los Angeles and entered the American Film Institute Conservatory. There he managed to finance part of what he lacked and he set off to record the full length.

In addition, since he had little money, he had to borrow from his family and friends, in addition to sleeping in the locations.
The film was not released until after the middle of 1977, although thanks to it, the director was quite acclaimed by the independent media and by himself. Mel brooks.

In 1980, Brooks hire the young man Lynch to direct the feature that would be highly awarded and would become a classic, based on a true story, the life of Joseph merrick, a deformed man.
About the same years as “The elephant Man“went out to the market, they proposed to Lynch direct a sci-fi version of the well-known novel by Frank Herbert, “Dune“.

It was already 1984 when it came out and it was his first failure, but perhaps he did it just for the money, to create his first world hit.
Blue velvet“(1986) was the name chosen for the great wonder of Lynch. With the wonderful actress Isabella Rossellini, who played a tormented singer who lived with a crazy psychopath and strange deaths followed one another over the course of the film.
Blue velvet“he became an icon of contemporary world cinema.

Her first Road movie, it was called “Wild at Heart“, an adaptation of the book by Barry gifford. With this film, Lynch won at the Cannes festival in 1990.

In 1997 the film appeared, acted by Bill pullman, “Lost highway“, in which the director takes his own road, which would become unstoppable.

Mulholland Drive“was released in 2001. With the support of the giants of Canal Study who gave 7 million to that company, there was no way to stop it. What is Mullholland about? The only way to really understand it is by looking at it.

In 2006 the director premiered “Inland empire“, with the main actors Laura dern Y Harry Dean Stanton.