has never won an Oscar. He was, however, nominated for 1980’s “The Elephant Man,” 1986’s “Blue Velvet” and 2001’s “Mulholland Drive.” This is not a huge surprise; Lynch’s films plumb the darkest depths of human nature, and are often marked by narrative elisions, perverse shocks, and gorgeous incomprehensibility.
The Montana-born filmmaker has long been preoccupied with the surreal underbelly of suburban America. Some of his images have taken on a life of their own: the severed ear in the grass at the beginning of “Blue Velvet”; the deformed baby in “Eraserhead”; the notorious red room of “Twin Peaks”; and the naive smile on the face of Naomi Watts’ Hollywood ingenue in “Mulholland Drive.”
“It comes in a burst,” Lynch said. “An idea comes in, and if you stop and think about it, it has sound, it has image, it has a mood, and it even has an indication of wardrobe, and knowing a character, or the way they speak, the words they say. ” Lynch has not completed a feature film since 2006’s experimental odyssey “Inland Empire,” and has said he’s most comfortable with television, which allows him to develop narratives with a longer duration.in 2017, “because the feature films that play in theaters are blockbusters. That seems to fill the theaters, but the arthouse cinema is gone. So I say that cable television is a new art house, and it’s good that it’s here.
_IllumiNatives Want to see Wes on The Cover!
He would have deserved Oscars at the time the movies he was in in the '90s came out, but better late than never. Congratulations to Wes Studi and the other nominees (Lina Wertmuller 🇮🇹).
Nina?