David Lynch: The Master of Film Mystery

#5 Lynch begins to work on the script for his first long-length project “Eraserhead” in 1971. The next year he starts with its production and the premiere of this film will happen five years later, at 19th of March 1977, at Filmex L.A. A cult black & white psychosis: “Bexevi I saw Eraserhead”. “A sur-realistic nightmare appeared as an expression of the author’s fear from fatherhood” (AMG – again). Film for which, Stanley Cubrick, allegedly said, that he would like to be able to film it itself. With this project Lynch starts the collaboration with the D.O.P. Frederick Elms, the sound designer Alan Splat and the actor Jack Nance, his regular co-workers in the future, as well.
#6 In 1978 he signs with Mell Brooks and Brooksfilm, and starts with the preparing of the film “Elephant Man“, a touching story for John Merick, the man sick with this rare and heavy deformation disease of the skin. This “heavy” story placed in the Lynch’s Victorian period brings him his first Oscar nomination for best directing, and the film gets, in whole, 7 Oscar nominations.
#3 His next project was the controversial cinema adaptation of the SF epos by Frank Herbert – “Dune”, a film produced under the Dino de Laurentis label, a person “responsible” for the production of “Barbarela” and “Flash Gordon“. That exact stylized atmosphere conveys in this film also, a film that certainly isn’t for anyone’s taste (even Lynch himself redraw from the project after its re-cut), but the visual extravagance of “Dune”, by the way, is, undoubtedly, an inevitable work for the Lynch’s visions lovers and for the SF lovers in general. And what’s also important about this film: here starts the collaboration with Kyle MacLachlan, „his cinematography alter ego“. After this commercial and review failure with “Dune”, Lynch makes his comeback in 1986 with the “Blue Velvet”, again produced for the Laurentis’ label, but this time, with a quite smaller budget.