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David lynch, the artist and filmmaker who broke boundaries with such unsettling films as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, died last week at the age of 78.
Today we'll listen back to our archive conversation with David lynch, as well as old interviews with some actors who worked with him.
But first, I'd like to start with a tribute to the writer and director whose vision was largely responsible for one of the most influential and singular series in television history, twin peaks.
David Lynch's career began with a 1977 cult hit, Eraserhead, which so impressed Mel Brooks that he hired lynch to direct the ultra serious, very moody movie the Elephant Man.
Brooks kept his own name off the credits as producer for fear that audiences might expect a comedy, but the Elephant man as a drama was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including one for lynch as best director.
He didn't win, but soon went on to make two visually remarkable movies starring a young actor named Kyle MacLachlan, the science fiction epic Dune and his moody, otherworldly Blue Velvet.
McLachlan also starred in Twin Peaks, the 1990 ABC series co created by lynch and Mark Frost.
And MacLachlan starred as well in that show's unexpected, incomprehensible sequel presented by Showtime in 2017 for the big screen.
After Blue Velvet, lynch kept making movies that seemed to be pulled directly from his subconscious, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire and, of course, Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me.
In addition to making films and TV shows, David lynch loved music and photography and art and old movies and classic television.
He pursued his many passions all his life, from composing and recording albums of music and practicing transcendental meditation to woodworking and making and posting eccentric short videos on YouTube.
For two years, he made daily one minute videos called Today's Number is appearing on camera to reach his hand into a big glass jar of numbered ping pong balls.