One of the most original and creative artists in history, virtually incomparable in film, his works have inspired a number of great directors. In terms of surrealism and breaking boundaries of a given art form in a completely singular way, you can only compare Lynch to Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali.
Eraserhead is the closest thing to having a nightmare that you can experience in cinema, and when I first saw it in a theater, I was sure I would never have a stranger experience with art in my lifetime. That was until Lynch's
Twin Peaks: The Return. That show is beyond words or sentences any human could come up with. In making two conventional films, he showed he could do that as well, and equal to most any great director, with
The Straight Story and
The Elephant Man.
His supreme masterpiece
Mulholland Drive is now on the prestigious and once a decade Sight and Sound lists of the greatest films of all time, including at number 22 on the worlds' film directors poll.
We have lost one of the most important artists of our time.
