Maybe the doughnut, though, is Lynch’s own career? It’s been 16 years since he released his last feature film, Inland Empire, and yet the fascination with the 76-year-old and his body of work seems to only get more fervent. It’s the sort of nugget you might expect from Dale Cooper, the FBI Special Agent played by Kyle MacLachlan in Lynch’s seminal Twin Peaks, the surreal murder-mystery that changed TV for good in the 1990s. It’s the perfect Lynch-ism: enigmatic, sincere, mysterious. “Not a day goes by where I don’t think about ‘The Wizard of Oz’” “He said: ‘I need to keep my eye on the doughnut.’” But the man behind cult classics Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man replied, “in classic Lynchian fashion”, to the request. We all know that he doesn’t like to talk about his work,” says Philippe, when we meet over tea and cake in London’s Mayfair Hotel. “I wasn’t expecting that he would say ‘yes’. But when the Swiss-born filmmaker decided to make a documentary about Lynch, the first thing he did was reach out to the American film director, to see if he might want to participate.
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