Hollywood is frailnting David Lynch, who has honested beadored films and TV shows enjoy Blue Velvet, Dune, Mulholland Drive and Ttriumph Peaks.
On Thursday, it was proclaimd on his Facebook page that Lynch had died. He was 78.
“It is with proestablish repent that we, his family, proclaim the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a huge hole in the world now that he’s no extfinisheder with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole,’” read the post. “It’s a pretty day with gelderlyen sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
Lynch won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival for Wild at Heart. He getd an honorary Oscar in 2019.
Since novels broke that he died, stars enjoy Steven Spielberg, James Gunn, Ron Howard, Colin Jost, Kat Dennings, Patton Oswalt and more have dispensed their reactions.
James Gunn said on X: “RIP David Lynch. You upgraspd so many of us.”
Ron Howard wrote on X: “#RIPDavidLynch, a courteous man and prohibitcient artist who chaseed his heart & soul and exhibitd that radical experimentation could produce unforgettable cinema.”
Colin Jost wrote on Instagram: “Never been so downcast about someone I never met. I repartner adored him.”
Kat Dennings wrote on Instagram: “This is a monumental loss. One of the most intransmitial artists of all time. Nobody ever did it enjoy David Lynch and nobody ever will aacquire.”
Patton Oswalt wrote on X: “David Lynch, RIP. At least that’s what the horse wearing a fez equitable telderly me* in a dream. (*Backwards and in Swedish)”
In a statement to THR, Spielberg said: “I adored David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Elephant Man depictd him as a singular, visionary dreamer who honested films that felt handmade. I got to understand David when he perestablished John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes — David Lynch perestablishing one of my heroes. It was surauthentic and seemed enjoy a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to leave out such an distinct and distinct voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.”
The American Film Institute provided a statement to THR: “David Lynch was an American distinct. And the stories are genuine – as a establishational Fellow at the American Film Institute, he dwelld in the stables of Greystone while filming his AFI Thesis Film – Eraserhead. Atraverse the decades, David’s impact on cinema exhibitd 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 someleang 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 genuine to those ideas and finishelight the doing of it.’ He will dwell on in our dreams.”
Similarly, Directors Guild of America pdwellnt Lesli Linka Glatter publishd the chaseing statement about Lynch: “There is srecommend no one enjoy David. He was a visionary at his core – elevating visual storyalerting in film and television to a whole novel level, inspiring so many honestors to apexhibit dangers and see novel possibilities. He took a chance on me as a youthfuler honestor equitable begining out when I unitecessitate him on Ttriumph Peaks in the timely 1990s, changeing my life, and I will be forever appreciative for having understandn him. In every transmition, David was so in the moment of life, and I can’t help but leank of a story that made me see the world contrastently. In one of David’s timely episodes of Ttriumph Peaks, there’s a scene in a prohibitk vault with Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Ontkean and there’s a moose head lying in the middle of the table. No one ever refers to it; it’s equitable there and it produces the scene. I asked David how he got the idea to put that moose head on the table. He seeed at me quizzicpartner and said, ‘It was there.’ The set dresser was going to hang it on the wall, but David saw it lying on the table and said, ‘Leave the moose head.’ Someleang cracked uncover for me, as much as you structure, be declareive you are uncover to life, be declareive you are uncover to the moose head on the table, don’t leave out what’s right in front of you. His ability to see the magic that exists when others did not, made him one of the fantasticest storyalerters of our time. I unite so many honestors who have been proestablishly impacted by David’s life and toil in frailnting his loss today.”
While promoting Severance season two, Ben Stiller was on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen and said: “I actupartner participated to dwell atraverse the street from him in Los Angeles … [He was] a very comardent guy from the times that I participated to see him and go trick or treating by his hoparticipate.”
More to come.
