By Chris Morris. Music Reporter. He was Lynch revealed in that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able to leave his house to direct any longer.
Lynch wove tales, not unlike those of his Spanish predecessor Luis Bunuel, which proceeded with their own impenetrable logic. A four-time Oscar nominee, Lynch received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in The director himself was consistently reticent about sorting the meaning of his work for his viewers.
Mysteries would become apparent and thrill you. And you can figure them out. He was born Jan. His father was a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, and his peripatetic family lived in the plains states, the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast before settling in Alexandria, Virginia, where Lynch attended high school. An indifferent student, Lynch focused on painting. Beginning in , Lynch began work on a feature at the AFI.
Inspired by his bleak years as a print engraver and struggling artist in Philadelphia, a page initial script began to take shape; Lynch would later say he had no memory of writing it. Over the course of the next five years, he made the film with several collaborators who would remain constants in his career, including sound designer Alan Splet, cinematographer Frederick Elmes and actor Jack Nance.
The disquieting black-and-white film followed the psychological descent of its maladroit hero Henry Spencer Nance after the birth of his monstrously malformed baby. Critics were decidedly alarmed by the picture when it premiered at L.
