Though surreal and sometimes impenetrable, Lynch's films lead us down dark roads to curious, new possibilities.

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

Family and friends reflect on the city's influence on the late filmmaker, who attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Beneath director David Lynch's art-damaged veneer beat an indestructibly sincere, unmistakably American genius.

Music played a huge role in defining the filmmaker’s distinctive atmosphere on the big and small screens. Hear 13 examples.

After earning Oscar nominations for directing The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet, the versatile and quirky writer and director ...

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 ...

Filmmaker David Lynch died ... we tracked it from early way back up to Eraserhead all the way into Mulholland Drive. I haven't taught the course since his last feature film came out, Inland ...

Part of what makes David Lynch’s work so appealing ... which meant he was growing up in doo-wop and early rock ‘n’ roll’s prime. The soundtracks to his films often reflected that, as ...