Biography
David Lynch is the famous American director, a bright representative of an independent cinema, an officer of the Order of the Honorary Legion and the winner of the Golden Palm Branch Awards and the Golden Lion for its contribution to the world cinema, as well as the prize for the director of the Cannes Film Festival.
The directorial style Lynch is surrealism and mysticism, but without cinema stamps. In his films there is a powerful energy, which captures the audience from the first frame and does not let go to the credits.
David Lynch was born on January 20, 1946. His childhood passed in the small town of Montana. Father David - a scientist, worked at the Ministry of Agriculture. The son did not go to his footsteps. Since childhood, Lynch has attracted all the uncharted and mystical, especially the carcasses of dead animals, which he gently packed in the boxes and looked at a long time. One of his hobbies was to compose compositions of dead flies. Otherwise, David Lynch was a normal child - obedient, quiet, he studied well at school.
The family often moved from one city to another, following his father. David had to change schools - he was not particularly friendly with classmates and was not very worried because of frequent movements.
Razzrosv, Lynch did not get rid of his hobby. On the contrary, he gained in a local morgue, where he observed with interest, as the pathologists dismember the corpses. He even photographed the decomposing organs. The second passion was the stories about the afterlime world. By the way, he believes in his existence now.
David Lynch dreamed of becoming an artist, so in 1963 he entered the school of arts in Washington, and in 3 years he switched to the Academy of Fine Arts in Pennsylvania.
Films
The first cinematic experience David acquired at the Academy. In 1967, he removed the cartoon "6 Bewie Figures" - it lasted only 1 minute. In the same year there was another experiment - the avant-garde film "Alphabet".
Work on the first full-length picture Lynch began in 1972. It was the project "Golov-Eraser". Shooting lasted 5 years, but after the premiere David Lynch became a cult director. He was noticed and offered cooperation Mel Brooks. In 1980, the "Elephant" film was released at the Brooks Studio, which was nominated for Oscar, received the Grand Prix at the Festival of Fantastic Films.
In 1984, the film "Dune" was released on the screens, the film was filmed by the novel Roman Frank Herbert. Despite the famous source and abundance of stars in the cast, the picture failed at the box office. Lynch himself explained the failure of the fact that the final version of the painting was prepared without his participation.
In 1986, a new creation of director was published - a detective thriller "Blue Velvet". A film about the mysterious investigation in a small town gathered a number of prestigious premiums, but the next Lynch picture eclipsed the success of this film.
The director's triumph for David Lynch was the detective mystical series "Twin Pix", which was released in 1990. The series tells about the investigation of the shocking murder of high school students, which gradually becomes in detail, indicating interference in the work of the other forces. After two seasons, the unfinished serial was left for more than 25 years. This fact gave "Twin Picus" even more popularity, and the unfinished plot of the incredible number of theories explaining what was happening in the picture.
In the same year, his drama "wild heart" received the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival. In 1994, the audience saw the most mysterious Lynch film - "Highway to Nowhere." A complex plot, perfect installation, mystical music - all the elements acted on the audience magically.
After the project "Highway to Nowhere", Lynch removed the "simple story" in which there is no mysticism, the plot is simple and something naive. This is a story about the elderly man who goes thousands of kilometers to his brother on a small lawn mower. This work director proved that he could not only have surrealistic projects. Alas, society coolly perceived his experiment - from the master they expected the other.
Soon David Lynch returned to his beloved style. In 2000, "Malkolland Drive" came out. This film received two prizes for the director - in Toronto and Cannes. Initially, the film was shot as a pilot series of the new series, but the material turned out to be rejected. Lynch made the missing parts and released "Malkolland Drive" as a full full-length film, which adopted fans with warmth.
The film tells about the young actress, which became a friend by chance a girlfriend who lost his memory. The main roles in the picture were performed by Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Tera.
In the fall of 2006, the premiere of the painting "Inner Empire" was held at the Venice Festival - this is the last full-length Lynch project. The film tells about the girl who fell into trouble, while the picture is filled with displacements in time, confusing chronological transitions, alternative versions of events and famous Lynch surrealism. The director received for this project "Golden Lion".
Music
Music has always held a special place in the films and life of David Lynch. According to the director, the real beauty of music opened by Angelo Balalamenti, who wrote the composition to many Lynch projects.In 2000, the director himself seriously became interested in electronic music. A year later, he released his first BlueBob album. In the fall of 2010, Lynch presented the Single "Good Day Today", in which the vocals are distorted using computer technologies. A year later, David Lynch released the first solo album, which is called "Crazy Clown Time", and in July 2013 - the second solo called "The Big Dream".
Personal life
The first wife Lynch was Peggy Lenz, they signed in Chicago in 1967. In 1968, Peggy gave birth to Jenny's daughter. Subsequently, the girl became a film director. The marriage was a short - in 1974, the spouses broke up.
Three years after the divorce Lynch married the second time. His wife became Mary Fisc, his friend's sister. After 5 years of marriage, in 1982, they had a son of Austin. And after another 5 years and this marriage collapsed.
After parting with Mary, the film director met with the actress Isabella Rosselini. Their romance lasted 4 years. Then he lived in a civil marriage with Mary Siini, who worked as a director of installation. In 1992, Mary gave birth to a son. Officially, they were issued relations only in May 2006, and two months after the wedding declared that they part.
In early 2009, David Lynch registered the third official marriage. At this time, his chosen was the actress Emily Stowfl, with which he met on the set of "Inner Empire". Emily younger than David for 30 years, but the difference in the age of spouses does not confuse. In 2012, she gave birth to the director's daughter. The girl was called Lula Goddess in honor of the heroine of the film "Wild Heart". Lynch and Stokel live in their own mansion in California.
In his spare time, the director is engaged in photography and painting. Back in the late 70s, he became interested in meditation. Moreover, the director fascinated the special type of meditation - transcendental meditation. This type of meditation does not require a concentration of attention. The director in this technique was even struck by not personal impressions and experiences, but the fact that this meditation practice helps veterans, children from disadvantaged families and victims of violence. David Lynch decided to engage in the spread of this type of meditation worldwide.
Lynch paid a million dollars for an internship at the Masters of Yoga Maharishi Mahesh and passed it in the summer of 2002. In California, David Lynch returned to the "enlightened". Over the years, he removed only one film, but visited 30 countries of the world with lectures on transcendental meditation.
In 2017, David Lynch got with the educational program and to Slavic countries. The director has opened the Charitable Organization "David Lynch Foundation in Eastern Europe", a branch of his David Lynch Foundation Foundation, the purpose of which also has been learning transcendental meditation. The representative office of the Foundation opened in Kiev. There is a fund and in the Internet space: leads the official page in "Instagram".
In addition to educational purposes, the foundation also carries the motivational direction. The David Lynch Foundation awards Prizes of Art and Public Actors, who contributed to the fight against violence, injustice and discrimination.
In 2018, Designer Stella McCartney and Executive Director of the American Council of Fashion Designers Fern Mallis received the award. The reason for the presentation of the award was the support that designers provided women who fell into a difficult life situation.
David Lynch now
On May 5, 2017, David Lynch announced that he had from cinema. In an interview, the director, although after some hesitation, but stated that the "inner empire" will be the last full-length film in his creative biography.This decision director explained the changes that occurred with world cinema. David Lynch noted that large fees are assembled at all those films that the director considers worthy.
However, after the Cannes Festival, which was held in May of the same year, the director still changed his mind to finally leave the cinema. Line Linch's cinema forced the rapid delights, which accompanied the release of the long-awaited 3 season of the TV series "Twin Pix", which also directed Lynch.
Filmography
- 1977 - "Head-Eraser"
- 1980 - "Elephant Man"
- 1984 - "Dune"
- 1986 - "Blue Velvet"
- 1990 - "Wild Heart"
- 1990 - "Twin Pix"
- 1995 - "Lumiere and Company"
- 1997 - "Highway to Nowhere"
- 1999 - "Simple History"
- 2001 - "Malkolland Drive"
- 2006 - "Inner Empire"