David Lynch Dead At 78

Posted January 17, 2025 by with 6 comments

It doesn’t make sense, but I guess I thought David Lynch would never die. How could he? Of course, so much of his work changed the way we watch and interpret movies and TV, so Lynch actually will, in a sense, live forever. An obituary for the 78-year-old creator of Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks—widely considered to be among the greatest works of art ever broadcast on television, especially that third season and the universally acclaimed “Part 8“—is here, and here’s the notice of his passing from his family this morning:

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This is an incredible tribute that does a really great job remembering all of his work and life, via news.com.au:

This beautiful remembrance from Kyle MacLachlan has made me a total wreck:

Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.

What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.

Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.

David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.

While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.

I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.

His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.

I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone.

David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

A report from PBS:

And here are a couple of clips of Lynch’s work that have stayed with me for the past thirty years, and will continue to do so until I’m gone, too. One as a writer/director (Major Garland Briggs’ unforgettable monologue to his son, Bobby, from Twin Peaks in 1990), and one as an actor (this was Lynch’s final on-screen role as John Ford in 2022’s The Fablemans):

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