David Lynch: The Art Life

Some of the more obtuse and mystifying elements of his work stem from direct memories filtered through his hallucinatory imagination.

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David Lynch: The Art Life


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David Lynch takes us on an intimate journey through the formative years of his life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors. David Lynch: The Art Life infuses Lynch's own art, music and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world, giving audiences a better understanding of the man and the artist. As Lynch states, "I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, you go with ideas and sometimes the past can conjure those ideas and color them, even if they're new ideas, the past colors them."
Not Rated
Genre
Culture Vulture, Documentary, Art & Artists, Films & Filmmakers, Bio-pic
Runtime
93
Language
English
Director
Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes
FEATURED REVIEW
Guy Lodge, Variety

That hoary old question of whether life imitates art or art imitates life is refreshingly irrelevant in the case of certain creative beings, for whom art is life and vice versa. David Lynch is one such being. Extravagantly surreal as the products of his imagination may be, they are deeply rooted in ...

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