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The dream world of David Lynch<\/a> was back on a big outdoor screen in Switzerland, at least for a few minutes, on Wednesday evening, namely in the form of a short film entitled An Unfinished Room\u2026<\/em> The\u00a0Locarno Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0presented the emotional, heartfelt and surprise tribute and farewell to the cinema legend on the opening night of its 78th edition<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, courtesy of Lynch mentee Duwayne Dunham, who has worked as a director (Twin Peaks: The Return<\/em>) and editor (Twin Peaks<\/em>, Star Wars: Episode VI \u2013 Return of the Jedi<\/em>,\u00a0Blue<\/em>\u00a0Velvet<\/em>,\u00a0Wild at Heart<\/em>), and collaborators.<\/p>\n Before the Locarno 2025 opening film<\/a> unspooled, artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro<\/a> set up the surprise homage without mentioning Lynch by name, saying the tribute was in memory of a creative who \u201cleft an indelible mark\u201d on cinema. \u201cHe touched all our souls, he touched all our emotion,\u201d Nazarro continued. \u201cHis contribution to beauty, dreams, and art will never be forgotten. And tonight, we celebrate him with this tiny, wonderful masterpiece, An Unfinished Room\u2026<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n With excitement on Locarno\u2019s Piazza Grande square palpable, the movie then started on the big screen.<\/p>\n The film featured words spoken by Lynch, discussing such things as his painting and film work and more, as well as scenes from such Lynch favorites as Twin Peaks<\/em>, Blue Velvet<\/em>, and The Elephant Man<\/em>, along with What Did Jack Do?<\/em> It also included footage of Lynch painting and making music.<\/p>\n The film was edited by Dunham, with its creative producers\u2019 credits listing Dunham, S.E. Feinberg, and David Negron.<\/p>\n When the Twin Peaks<\/em> theme started playing near the end of the short film, and the words \u201cDavid Lynch 1946-2025\u201d showed up on the dark screen, the Locarno festival audience burst into enthusiastic applause.<\/p>\n Dunham is also in Locarno to world premiere his\u00a0Legend of the Happy Worker<\/a><\/em>, \u201ca fable for our time,\u201d starring Josh Whitehouse,\u00a0Thomas Haden Church<\/a>, and\u00a0Colm Meaney<\/a> out of competition. The director and some of his actors and creative team were shown on the big Locarno outdoor screen on the Wednesday opening night as they were arriving and walking the red carpet.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The dream world of David Lynch was back on a big outdoor screen in Switzerland, at least for a few minutes, on Wednesday evening, namely in the form of a short film entitled An Unfinished Room\u2026 The\u00a0Locarno Film Festival\u00a0presented the emotional, heartfelt and surprise tribute and farewell to the cinema legend on the opening night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1945848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[52337,339000,338999,339001],"class_list":["post-1945847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-david-lynch","tag-duwayne-dunham","tag-locarno-film-festival","tag-outdoor-screen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Locarno-Says-Farewell-to-David-Lynch-With-Tribute-Film-\u2018An.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}