David Lynch will live forever within the marvelous worlds he chose to gift us!
We’ll hear him asking for coffee and cherry pie, speaking loudly while wearing headphones...
We’ll think of him every time a car drives down the Lost Highway or heads toward Mulholland Drive...
Or when Cooper saves Laura, over and over again, in parallel realities...
We’ll remember him every time two young people fall madly in love, and every time we hear rock 'n' roll or more melancholic tunes at the bar of the Roadhouse...
He’ll stay with us, transforming—through subtle humor and respect—our worries and fears into surreal scenes.
And when we watch his weather forecasts, we’ll smile. Because someone once promised us that the future will be bright!
As a middle and high school student, when I began to truly grasp and be captivated by what we call pop culture, there were three TV series—wildly different from each other—that I loved and revisited countless times in the years that followed: Moonlighting, Miami Vice, and Twin Peaks . Every episode of Twin Peaks was the source of endless schoolyard discussions. Strange, mysterious, yet utterly mesmerizing, it served as my introduction to a different kind of television—a preview of what would later be hailed as its "golden age." It also taught me that you didn’t need to fully understand everything happening on screen to enjoy it and be swept away by it.
In the years that followed, I gradually delved deeper into David Lynch's work, but Twin Peaks always held a special place in my heart. However, standing alongside it came an unexpected, deeply sweet, and profoundly human film—one I appreciate even more as I grow older. A simple, “straight” story.
A farewell, with gratitude.
P.S I really loved the things that Kyle MacLachlan wrote about him and the gratitude he had for David Lynch.
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.
