[...] he’s back in the news as he revives his groundbreaking TV series “Twin Peaks” to fulfill the promise made by the Laura Palmer lookalike at the end of the show’s second season: “I’ll see you again in 25 years.” The Art Life, focusing not on the features like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” that made him famous but on his early years and training as an artist, up to his first experimental movies. The film opens with archival photos and footage depicting the filmmaker’s childhood and teen years in Idaho, Montana and Washington state, with emphasis on his closeness to his mother. Later he moved to Philadelphia, a town that he immediately hated and says was infested with fear. [...] his time there paid off, inspiring the enigmatic “Eraserhead,” the first movie to bring him wide attention. After a bumpy start, he settled in to the former stables at the Institute (it was housed in a rambling onetime mansion). Interspersed with his recollections are scenes of Lynch today, that astonishing hairdo now gray, smoking cigarettes (a favorite occupation) and creating paintings, sculptures and objects, often with menacing overtones, at his current Los Angeles home. The movie, credited to three directors (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm), perhaps dwells a bit too much on images of Lynch puffing on a smoke and staring into the distance in artistic contemplation. [...] there might have been a bit more attention paid to Lynch’s deep and abiding interest in making music, one of the chief ways he’s occupied himself since “Inland Empire.”
Comment on Documentary shows Lynch’s early immersion in ‘the art life’
By Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:36am
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