The grand master of perverse, poetic Americana and maverick genius
began as an art student before making a series of shorts under the
auspices of the American Film Institute. Lynch spent five years making
his feature debut, the wondrously dystopic Eraserhead, and briefly
flirted with pop culture fame in the late 1980s/early 1990s with Twin
Peaks and Wild at Heart. Blue Velvet is considered his masterpiece, a
twisted vignette on the underbelly of American suburbia, and he
recently had a ‘comeback' with The Straight Story. Perhaps the most
unique of modern American film-makers.
