First of all, David Lynch’s last film, Inland Empire, was released all the way back in 2006.
After making the above revelation to the Sydney Morning Herald, David Lynch was then asked straight out if Inland Empire was his last ever feature film, to which he emphatically responded, “Yes it is.”
But while it is obviously very depressing to learn of David Lynch’s cinematic retirement, it has actually been apparent for quite a while that he was probably never going to make another film ever again.
Before then he’d overseen Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk Me With Me, Lost Highway, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive between 1977 and 2001, which is quite a prolific rate considering how meticulous and detailed his films could be.