His wild and woolly road movie made its tumultuous debut at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or. ![]() However, if I were inexplicably forced to kick one of Lynch’s films to the curb, I would not hesitate for a second to select Wild at Heart. Hell, even his usually maligned and generally misbegotten adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune (1984) has proven itself to be a stunning visual marvel that is a lot better than its reputation might suggest. Most of the rest of his output-including The Elephant Man (1980), Fire Walk With Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999) and Inland Empire (2006)-is not that far behind. ![]() But of those, I would not hesitate to call three of them- Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001)-stone-cold masterpieces. ![]() He has only made 10 feature films to date (the groundbreaking Twin Peaks saga is a television series, so let us nip that discussion in the bud). Like many others, I consider David Lynch to be one of the most unique and distinctive voices to emerge in the entire history of cinema.
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