The family of the filmmaker, painter and musician announced the news on their Facebook page.
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Director and screenwriter David Lynch, who radicalized American cinema with a dark, surreal artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and on television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78 years old, the leading American media informed its readers Variety.
Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely no longer be able to leave his house to make films.
His family announced his death in a Facebook post, writing: “There is a big void in the world now that he is no longer with us. But, as he said, ‘keep your eyes on the donut and not the hole.’
Lynch is a unique artist who broke through in the 1970s with the surrealist film “Eraserhead” and who has rarely failed to surprise and inspire audiences and peers in the decades since. His most notable works range from the neo-noir “Mulholland Drive” to the offbeat gothic “Blue Velvet” to the eclectic and eccentric “Twin Peaks.”
He also directed the crime film “Sailor and Lula” (“Wild at Heart”), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the biographical drama “Elephant Man” and the film “A True Story”.
Additional sources • Variety
