![]() He did it in mere months, and the result captured him the Palme d’Or, one of the world’s highest film prizes, at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.įew directors ever get such a streak of highly-praised successes. Reportedly, Lynch loved his own adaptation so much that he decided to make the movie himself. ![]() A producer buddy who wanted to turn Barry Gifford’s novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula into a film asked Lynch to do the screenplay. He had just written and directed the pilot episode of what was to become perhaps his signature work, the soon-to-be hit TV series “Twin Peaks,” and so, having worked in the big leagues of the film world for 10 years, being hailed as a genius and suffering enough ups and downs to fill a lesser director’s entire career, Lynch was looking for something new. ![]() By 1989, David Lynch had already come back from the artistic and commercial flop that was Dune (1984) with Blue Velvet (1986), his highly-regarded nightmare vision of small town America. ![]()
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