I saw Blue Velvet in high school and Wild At Heart in college. Both really stuck with me. Twin Peaks came out during college, too, and the common rooms were packed every week to see the next episode.
It may be difficult for people who were born after some of his groundbreaking work came out to realize how he changed both TV and movies radically. His influence is everywhere.
Lynch was a true artist of the sort they used to mint regularly in the early 20tj Century. Not many left like him unf. I gather he had to flee his home in LA during the last week of his life, and the horrible air quality can’t have helped his emphysema. I’m not sure if his home and crazy collections survived.
