‘The complicated zone where the beautiful and the damned collide’: remembering David Lynch
- Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
The acclaimed American filmmaker David Lynch has died at the age of 78. While a cause of death has yet to be publicly announced, Lynch, a lifelong tobacco enthusiast, revealed in 2024 he was suffering from emphysema.
Best known for films such as Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001), as well as the hugely influential...





