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

Lynch died on January 16 at 78 years old ... attention to the relatively then-unknown Naomi Watts, who delivers a masterclass in acting as a woman split between dream and reality.

We explain why the late, great David Lynch's Mulholland Drive topped ... as an essay on the nuts and bolts of film-making – a masterclass in technical processes, from montage to deep focus ...