David Lynch Appreciation: A Visionary For All Time

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I never really got the chance to interview David Lynch, which death was announced today, but I can vividly recall the one time I actually talked to him, something I recounted in my Deadline coverage of the American Film Institute’s celebration of its 50th anniversary of the AFI Conservatory at its fabled Greystone Mansion where it all began in 1969 and was housed there until 1981 when it moved.

The date was September 19, 2019 and many graduates of those 50 years were gathered together for the party. One of them was Lynch from the class of 1970 (the second AFI class), who I spotted wandering alone through the hallowed halls of this mansion, clearly in a nostalgic moment for a filmmaker who I always thought of as never looking back.

This day he was looking back, revisiting his cinematic beginnings and telling me he hadn’t been to Greystone in at least 25 years “or ever”, he couldn’t recall.

However he perfectly described to me just exactly where the projection booth was, and all the equipment it had from 16MM to 70MM.