Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet ...
The famously weird filmmaker set his 1986 movie in Lumberton, with many modifications, and filmed in Wilmington during its film infancy.
The entertainment industry has already lost several notable figures in 2025. The film world was shaken by the death of “Blue ...
He was a onetime artist who broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and peers in the following decades.
With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.
David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland ... adding he didn’t expect to make another film.
He frequently worked with the same actors — Kyle MacLachlan ... for “Elephant Man,” and again for directing “Blue Velvet.” “This film is a trip into darkness and back out again ...
Blue Velvet,’ ‘Mulholland Drive ... Spielberg noted that he had cast Lynch as director John Ford in his 2022 film “The Fabelmans.” “Here was one of my heroes (Ford) — David Lynch ...
In the years since, however, "Blue Velvet" came to be considered by many critics to be Lynch's best feature film effort ... featuring much of the original cast and which Lynch directed.