Many of Lynch’s movies travel from a familiar outside world into a strange inner one. The structure of “Room to Dream,” which ...

When David Lynch died last week, it was almost hard to know whom exactly to mourn. He was a Renaissance man: musician, ...

Lynch’s “The Straight Story” (1999), however—written by Mary Sweeney and John E. Roach— is more like a lazy daydream. It’s a simple, sun-soaked story told with heart and gentle humor. It was, in fact, ...

If I moved out to Los Angeles to pursue my own acting dreams, would I end up like Diane Selwyn—Betty’s alter ego in Act ...

Outside of a decades-old fast food joint in the heart of Burbank, cartons of cigarettes, bouquets of blue roses and slices of cherry pie still in their to-go containers formed a growing pile around ...

The director himself came off as almost performatively normal. Masterpieces like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive” said ...