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David Lynch: The Dark Side Of The American Dream

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19.01.2025

For seven years, US director David Lynch drank the same chocolate milkshake each day at the same time from the same place in Los Angeles because he believed it helped his creativity.

But given the famously weird apparitions in his work, from a human ear in the grass to telephones ringing in empty rooms and dancing dwarves in red suits, his imagination hardly needed to be fired up.

From the sadomasochist intrigue "Blue Velvet" (1986) to the lesbian thriller "Mulholland Drive" (2001), Lynch -- who has died aged 78 -- gained a global cult following with his unsettling portraits of American life.

He may be best remembered for his mesmerising network series "Twin Peaks", which blazed a trail for the prestige television dramas that would follow.

"It would be tough to look at the roster of television shows any given season without finding several that owe a creative debt to 'Twin Peaks'," said The Atlantic in 2016, hailing his influence on directors from Quentin Tarantino to the Coen brothers.

With four Oscar nominations including a trio of best director nods, the filmmaker recognizable by his shock of white hair took home just one honorary statuette, in 2019.

Lynch had a peripatetic childhood, born in Montana on January 20, 1946 but moving around several times as one of five........

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