The trailer for David Lynch: The Art Life promises “a unique documentary event”—as if there were any other way to make a movie about the man behind Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr., and so many other cult classics.
With the long (long) awaited return of Twin Peaks finally set for 2017, a retrospective on David Lynch couldn’t be better timed. The upcoming documentary based on his life—which had critics raving out of its Venice premiere—is in the hands of Jon Nguyen, who had first shadowed the eccentric filmmaker a decade ago for the film Lynch, on the set of Inland Empire. Nguyen will again balance typical biography with infusions of Lynch’s sensibility for The Art Life, using his paintings and archival footage to present a fittingly dark and complicated portrait. No U.S. release date is set yet, but a smart distributor might look toward the new Twin Peaks premiere to bring Lynchians out in droves.
