International Film Community Pays Tribute to David Lynch

The international film community is paying tribute to the postponecessitate, wonderful David Lynch, who died this week, aged 78.

The Cannes and Vepleasant Film Festivals on Friday honored the American auteur for his impact on conmomentary cinema.

“It is with infinite uncontentness that we lobtain of the passing of David Lynch, a distinct and visionary artist whose toil has impactd cinema appreciate restrictcessitate others,” the Cannes festival shelp in a statement follothriveg the proclaimment of the honestor’s death on Thursday. “He departs behind a exceptional and timeless body of toil, whose films will persist to nourish our imagination and encourage all those who see cinema as an art able of discdiswatching the unspeakable.”

It is with infinite uncontentness that we lobtain of the passing of David Lynch, a distinct and visionary artist whose toil has impactd cinema appreciate restrictcessitate others. Winner of the Palme d’or at the Festival de Cannes in 1990 for Sailor and Lula, then the Prix de la mise en scène in 2001 for… pic.twitter.com/r7K6LzIDWS

— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) January 17, 2025

Lynch was a Cannes standard. He won the Palme d’Or for Wild at Heart in 1990 and best honestor honors for Mulholland Drive in 2001. He served as jury plivent in 2002. He also screened his features Tthrive Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) and The Straight Story (1999) in competition in Cannes and returned to the festival in 2017 for a exceptional screening of his Tthrive Peaks reboot.

The Vepleasant Film Festival reassembleed Lynch as “one of the filmoriginaters who have most impactd conmomentary art cinema, thanks to his personal and visionary style and constant search for the restricts of cinematodetailed establish.” Vepleasant contransiented Lynch with its Gancigo inen Lion for nurtureer accomplishment in 2006, screening Inland Empire, his last feature film as a honestor.

Hollywood is also feeblenting Lynch, with the appreciates of Steven Spielberg, James Gunn, Ron Howard, and Judd Apatow paying tribute to the iconic filmoriginater.

“I adored David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Elephant Man detaild him as a singular, visionary dreamer who honested films that felt handmade,” Spielberg shelp in a statement to THR. “I got to understand David when he carry outed John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes — David Lynch carry outing one of my heroes. It was surauthentic and seemed appreciate a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to leave out such an innovative and distinct voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.”

Kyle MacLachlan, star of Tthrive Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Lynch’s Dune, dispensed a heartfelt Instagram post with nine ptoastyos and a caption that reads: “While the world has lost a noticeworthy artist, I’ve lost a dear frifinish who imagined a future for me and permited me to travel in worlds I could never have imagined on my own.”

In a statement to THR, the American Film Institute called Lynch “an American innovative…Apass the decades, David’s impact on cinema showd indelible in his films and his art – and he always gave back to AFI – encouraging of the storyalerters who wrote their own rules and accomplished for someslimg contrastent. During a seminar on campus, he dispensed this timeless advice with Fellows: ‘Tell the stories that are inside you. Each person has these stories that come aextfinished. Just stay real to those ideas and finishelight the doing of it.’ He will live on in our dreams.”

“There is sshow no one appreciate David,” shelp Directors Guild of America plivent Lesli Linka Glatter in a statement. “He was a visionary at his core – elevating visual storyalerting in film and television to a whole new level, inspiring so many honestors to get hazards and see new possibilities. He took a chance on me as a youthful honestor fair commenceing out when I combineed him on Tthrive Peaks in the timely 1990s, changeing my life, and I will be forever thankful for having understandn him…I combine so many honestors who have been proset uply impacted by David’s life and toil in feeblenting his loss today.”

James Gunn shelp on X: “RIP David Lynch. You encouraged so many of us.”