Following the tragic passing of visionary filmmaker David Lynch yesterday, the 2016 documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is currently free to watch on the Criterion Channel, and will be until the end of January.
Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm, David Lynch: The Art Life is named after the Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director's enduring commitment to what he called “the art life”: “You drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint, and that’s it.”
A rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries, DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE offers an absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From his secluded home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood to his experiences at art school to the beginnings of his filmmaking career—in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies.
Lynch's death at 78 has sent a deep sadness across the world of film, with everyone from David Dastmalchian to Stephen King expressing their condolences at the loss of such an inimitable creative.
Most of Lynch's staggering filmography, including Blue Velvet, Inland Empire and Lost Highway, is proudly part of the Criterion Collection
Head over to the Criterion Channel to watch David Lynch: The Art Life (ideally with some black coffee and cherry pie).
