10:00 – Nicolas Cage pays tribute to a “brilliant” artist
Among David Lynch’s contributors is Nicolas Cage. The actor filmed under his direction in Sailor et Lulawho won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. He paid tribute to a “brilliant” and “courageous” artist, endowed with a “joyful sense of humor”. “I never had more fun than when I worked with David Lynch. He was always excellent.”
09:40 – “I will never retire”: when David Lynch opened up about his health problems
On August 5, 2024, David Lynch spoke on the social network “Yes, I have emphysema after several years of smoking,” he wrote, going on to describe his love for tobacco. “But there is a price to pay, and for me, that price is emphysema. I stopped smoking two years ago.” He then detailed that he had done numerous health tests, and that he was “in excellent health, with the exception of emphysema”. “I am filled with happiness, and I will never retire.”
01/16/25 – 11:35 p.m. – David Lynch, father of four children
END OF DIRECT – The American director leaves behind four children. The eldest is the director Jennifer Lynch, born in 1968 from her marriage to the painter Peggy Reavey. His son Austin Jack Lynch was born in 1982 from his second marriage, to Mary Fisk. Born in 1992, Riley Sweeney Lynch is his third child. It is the fruit of his relationship with editor and producer Mary Sweeney. Finally, married a fourth time to actress Emily Stofle, David Lynch had a fourth child in 2012, a little girl named Lula.
-01/16/25 – 10:43 p.m. – “As he said: ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not the hole’”
In their message announcing the death of David Lynch on Facebook, those close to the director confide: “There is a big void in the world now that he is no longer with us”, before adding a comment that is original to say the least attributed to the filmmaker: “But, as he said: ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not the hole’.”
01/16/25 – 10:25 p.m. – David Lynch, a filmmaker who inspired so many others, James Gunn’s tribute
The director of Suicide Squad also had a word for the great filmmaker David Lynch. “You have inspired so many of us,” he tweeted, even adding a heart to his message.
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