Happy Birthday: David Lynch

David Lynch

Born: January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana, USA

Dune (1984) I didn’t have final cut on. It’s the only film I’ve made where I didn’t have, I didn’t technically have final cut on The Elephant Man (1980) but Mel Brooks gave it to me, and on Dune (1984) the film, I started selling out even in the script phase knowing I didn’t have final cut, and I sold out, so it was a slow dying- the-death and a terrible terrible experience. I don’t know how it happened, I trusted that it would work out but it was very naive and, the wrong move. In those days the maximum length they figured I could have is two hours and seventeen minutes, and that’s what the film is, so they wouldn’t lose a screening a day, so once again it’s money talking and not for the film at all and so it was like compacted and it hurt it, it hurt it. There is no other version. There’s more stuff, but even that is putrefied.

The Elephant Man 1980 dir. Lynch Starring Anthony Hopkins John Hurt Dune 1984 dir. Lynch Starring Kyle MacLachlan Blue Velvet 1986 dir. Lynch Starring Isabella Rossellini Kyle MacLachlan

The Straight Story 1999 dir. Lynch Starring Sissy Spacek Richard Farnsworth Mullholland Dr. 2001 dir. Lynch Starring Naomi Watts Laura Harring ERASERHEAD 1977 dir. David Lynch Stars: Jack Nance Charlotte Stewart Inland Empire 2006 dir. Lynch Starring Laura Dern Jeremy Irons

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