David Lynch's final movie performance was playing the legendary John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, and the scene is absolutely perfect.

The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.

Steven Spielberg knew what he was doing when he cast David Lynch as John Ford in The Fabelmans; already, in 2022, the director had become, like Ford, bigger than his movies, a living monument to ...

First and foremost, David Lynch has always been known as a director, not an actor, and he has only had a few small roles in his lifetime. At the same time, John Ford remains a figure who looms larger ...

While the late David Lynch made an inimitable and indelible ... Lynch appears toward the end of the movie as another legendary filmmaker, John Ford, who is visited by an aspiring young filmmaker.

The decades-long valorization and near-deification of the late filmmaker David Lynch is a sign of declining cultural ...

David Lynch as John Ford in The Fabelmans David Lynch is my favorite filmmaker, so choosing one moment from his films would be impossible. But if there’s a scene that encapsulates the degree to ...

Laying bare American life's hidden horrors and absurdities, the auteur behind 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' held up a distorted but unsettlingly truthful mirror.

David Lynch defined filmmaking as an artform, which is why Steven Spielberg found him perfect for this 2022 cameo, his last onscreen appearance.

"I got to know David when he played John Ford in 'The Fabelmans.' Here was one of my heroes — David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David's ...

I got to know David when he played John Ford in ‘The Fabelmans.’ Here was one of my heroes—David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David’s own movies ...