Artist and filmmaker David Lynch discusses his early life and the events that shaped his outlook on art and the creative process.Artist and filmmaker David Lynch discusses his early life and the events that shaped his outlook on art and the creative process.Artist and filmmaker David Lynch discusses his early life and the events that shaped his outlook on art and the creative process.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
- David Lynch's mother
- (archive footage)
- Self - David Lynch's father
- (archive footage)
- Self - David Lynch's first wife
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Directors
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFunded by a Kickstarter campaign. It took several years for completion.
- Quotes
David Lynch: Philadelphia was kind of a poor man's New York City, so it was a weird town. It was kind of a mean town. One woman, who was my neighbour, *reeked* of urine and she was a complete racist. There was another woman, who was totally crazy. She was a neighbour. Lived down the street with her parents. And she would go around the backyard on her hands and knees and squawk like a chicken and say, "I'm a chicken! I'm a chicken!" And squawk and squawk and go around and around in this tall white grass in her backyard. She came up to me one day on the street and she said, "Oh, my nipples hurt!" And she was squeezing her-her breast and standing in front of me squeezing and shaking. "My nipples hurt!"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Lynch/Oz (2022)
- SoundtracksI Have a Radio
Written and performed by David Lynch and Dean Hurley
Published by Bobkind Music Inc (ASCAP) / Team Hurley (ASCAP)
Administered by Universal Music Corp / Downtown Music Publishing
Courtesy of Sunday Best Recordings
If you are hoping for an exploration of the films of David Lynch, and of the filmmaker David Lynch, stay at home. Only David Lynch the neophyte filmmaker is explored because this is a natural development of the real star of the show - David Lynch the painter. One day he sees one of his paintings moving, and that's when the seed is planted for him to make movies - he wants to make moving paintings.
We see a lot of the finished artwork of David Lynch, and most of it is stunning and quite dark, the latter being somewhat of an incongruity considering that David Lynch seems to be a happy and contented person. In one scene, Mr. Lynch talks about showing his father some of his art as a young man, and his father's reaction is grave concern that Mr. Lynch is seriously mentally ill. "Don't have children," his father tells him. David Lynch once described his art as "violent comedy". Indeed, if you get the violence but not as much the comedy, you might think something is deranged about the man. During the whole 90 minutes I spent at the TIFF Lightbox Cinema in Toronto with David Lynch, I never got the sense that he was a nut job. His toddler of a daughter made several appearances in the film, and David Lynch was warm, playful, and attentive with her, and never acted bothered by her as she played while he was painting. He told story after story the way that regular guy that everybody likes in your life would. It finally occurred to me that Mr. Lynch had found the perfect catharsis in his art for anger and violence - which are within all of us - and the result was a cleansing of sorts, the mentally wholesome fellow I spent some time with yesterday at the cinema.
Every art student, budding artist, artist wannabe, art appreciator, and artist appreciator should see David Lynch - The Art Life. And every David Lynch fan, of which I am one...a BIG one. The rest of you might be bored.
- LeonardHaid
- Apr 8, 2017
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- Also known as
- David Lynch the Art Life
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $171,419
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,823
- Apr 2, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $311,470
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1 / (high definition)