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Of the many, many surprises that "Twin Peaks" has to offer, chief among them must surely be David Bowie's brief appearance in the 1992 prequel film, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me." His character, introduced by Agent Cole as the long lost Phillip Jeffries, speaks with a strange Southern accent and accuses Dale Cooper of not being who he says he is. Then he just sort of screams and acts erratically before disappearing into thin air. Or maybe he disappears into the electrical wires? It's hard to tell:

It's one of the more baffling moments in a movie that was already slightly confusing. "Twin Peaks" fans were hoping for some answers to the many questions the incredible season 2 finale cliffhanger left them with, but instead they got a prequel that not only answered nothing, but which introduced a bunch of other plot threads. The mystery of Phillip Jeffries was never...

After nearly three decades, Scream 7 is set to deliver one of the biggest twists in the franchise’s history — Matthew Lillard is returning as Stu Macher. The announcement, revealed by Deadline, has sparked speculation and excitement among horror fans, as the character was believed to have been definitively killed off in the 1996 original.

Lillard’s return marks a full-circle moment for the actor, whose role as the horror-obsessed, unhinged high schooler in Wes Craven’s Scream launched his career. While his character’s demise—via a television dropped on his head—seemed final, the Scream series has never shied away from bending its own rules. Whether through flashbacks, retcons, or unexpected narrative twists, the franchise has found ways to bring back past characters in surprising ways. The question remains: How is Stu still alive? Fans have speculated for years that he could have survived, perhaps resurfacing as a mastermind behind Ghostface killings all along.

“Twin Peaks” and “The Addams Family” actor Carel Struycken and his wife, Tracey, lived in their Altadena, Calif. home for more than 12 years without ever having to evacuate, despite a few close calls. Usually when there’s a fire in the nearby brush-covered hills, they see it coming toward them, giving them ample time to gather their belongings. But the Eaton fire, one of the several wildfires that recently devastated Southern California, was different.

“There was such a strong and erratic wind, it kind of happened everywhere all at once,” Struycken tells Variety. “That’s why we had to leave so quickly. I had prepared so many things in case of a fire. I have a lot of photo equipment and had put it all in cases that were standing, ready to grab if we had to leave. But this happened so quickly that none of that happened.”

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During his lifetime, David Lynch was nominated twice for the Writers Guild of America Awards but never won. Weeks before his death, however, he was able to accept a recognition that will be officially bestowed in February.

During its 2025 awards ceremony, the Writers Guild of America West will posthumously present the Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet writer-director with a lifetime achievement prize, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, the union stated Wednesday. The award recognizes union members who have “advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter,” with past recipients including Charlie Kaufman, Nancy Meyers and Budd Schulberg.

While the presentation will happen at the Feb. 15 ceremony, with frequent Lynch collaborator Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) bestowing the honor, Lynch was able to receive the prize in late 2024 before his death on Jan. 16, according to the union.

“Writer-director David Lynch’s...

Screenwriter and director David Lynch, who died this month, has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.

The guild says he was aware of the honor and accepted several weeks before his January 15 passing. It will be presented by his Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan at the WGA Awards ceremony on February 15 .

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The guild’s lifetime achievement award is presented to members who have “advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter.”

“Writer-director David Lynch’s uncompromising vision pushed the boundaries of filmmaking,” said Wgaw President Meredith Stiehm. “We’re proud to honor him and his legacy.”

Related: ‘Twin Peaks’ Star Kyle MacLachlan Remembers David Lynch: “He Understood That Questions Are The Drive That Make Us Who We Are”

While studying at...

Hollywood has been mourning the loss of the groundbreaking director who gave us Twin Peaks, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and so much more. David Lynch was beloved by those he worked with, with Naomi Watts crediting the director for giving her a second chance in the business when she was ready to call it quits.

“I wouldn’t have stayed had I not met David Lynch. The chips were down, it was 10 years into flunking auditions,” Watts said on Live With Kelly and Mark (via Entertainment Weekly. “I was literally alienating people. I was making them uncomfortable because I was so like, ‘I need a job! I need a job!’ So much so that my agent at the time said, ‘You’re too intense. You’re making people uncomfortable.’ Yeah, I need a job. I’m desperate, I need to work. I planned on going home multiple times.

Naomi Watts revealed on “Live With Kelly and Mark” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she nearly quit acting before she met the late David Lynch, who cast her as the lead in 2001’s “Mulholland Drive.” The film’s critical acclaim and global success turned Watts into a star after “10 years” of “flunking auditions.” Lynch died on Jan. 15 at 78 years old.

“I wouldn’t have stayed [in Hollywood] had I not met David Lynch,” Watts said. “The chips were down, it was 10 years into flunking auditions [and] nothing was happening…I was literally alienating people. I was making them uncomfortable because I was so like, ‘I need a job! I need a job!'”

Things got so bad for Watts “that my agent at the time said, ‘You’re too intense. You’re making people uncomfortable,'” the Oscar nominee remembered. “Yeah, I need a job. I’m desperate, I need to work. I planned on going home multiple times.

Actress Laura Dern shared an emotional birthday message on Instagram Monday for her longtime mentor David Lynch, who passed away recently. “Happy birthday, tidbit,” Dern wrote. “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.”

The bond between Dern and Lynch began in 1986 when she was just 17 years old. Lynch cast her in his mystery thriller “Blue Velvet,” where he gave her the nickname “Tidbit” – a term of endearment that stuck throughout their professional relationship.

Over nearly 40 years, the pair worked together on several major films. These included the 1990 movie “Wild at Heart,” where Dern played Lula Pace Fortune alongside Nicolas Cage. Their last film together was “Inland Empire” (2006), with Dern starring as an actress whose reality becomes confused with her character’s. They reunited once more for the 2017 television series “Twin Peaks: The Return,” where Dern played Diane Evans.

“Everyone who works alongside David feels that electricity,...

Laura Dern shared a heartfelt birthday message on Instagram Monday to her lifelong collaborator David Lynch, four days after news broke of his death.

“Happy birthday, tidbit,” Dern wrote. “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.”

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Since casting Dern in “Blue Velvet” at the age of 17, Lynch has affectionately called her “Tidbit.” In 2019, she presented him with his Academy Honorary Award alongside Kyle MacLachlan — also known as “Kale.”

“His nicknames for us have stuck as we share the privilege of working with him our entire adult lives,” Dern said, later adding: “Everyone who works alongside David feels that electricity. It’s his enthusiasm and passion that he brings to set that infuses you with that sense that you’re doing what you were always meant to.”

Dern was one of Lynch...

One of David Lynch's best movies climbs the streaming chart following his death on January 15. The legendary filmmaker behind Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks has died at the age of 78, announced by his family on January 16 in a Facebook post. Lynch was diagnosed with chronic lung disease last year, caused by a lifetime of smoking.

Despite his health condition, Lynch wasn't planning on retiring. He was working on a Netflix limited series before his passing, which could've been his last project. As Netflix CEO recalled in his Instagram tribute post, it was "a David Lynch production" filled with "mystery and risks," which was quickly granted a green light from the streamer, but the project was indefinitely delayed due to a series of setbacks, including Covid and Lynch's declining health.

Blue Velvet Climbs Streaming Chart Following Lynch's Death The Neo-Noir Thriller Is Undeniably In Lynch's Style

Released in 1986, Blue Velvet...

Four days on and the passing of David Lynch still feels unreal, leaving behind a legacy of work that is an entire universe onto itself. Like many others, I’ve been catching up with the short films and oddities in his career I’ve missed, which led me to stumble on a short film he made in 2018 which has only been shared publicly following his death.

Created for the 2018 Leffest (aka Lisboa Film Festival), which was honoring the filmmaker in their program “Waiting for Mr. Lynch,” David Lynch sent in an unsettling 87-second short film to world-premiere at the festival in his absence. Featuring a baby named Betty wondering where Mr. Lynch ended up, the black-and-white short is sure to get under your skin.

Here’s the festival’s description of their overall program: “His work since Inland Empire up to the first episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return was shown,...

The world got some rather tragic news recently. David Lynch, the brilliant filmmaker behind "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks," died a the age of 78. Part of what makes it so sad is that Lynch hadn't made any major projects in recent years, with "Twin Peaks: The Return" in 2017 serving as the most significant entry in his later filmography. In 2020, we got a glimpse at what could have been in the director's later years in the form of the short "What Did Jack Do?"

Released by Netflix in January 2020, "What Did Jack Do?" is a 17-minute short in which a detective interrogates a monkey. The detective is played by Lynch, the monkey is an actual monkey, and the whole thing is as delightfully weird as it sounds. It all takes place in a locked-down train station, shot in black and white. It feels very true to the artist that Lynch was.

“The Straight Story” begins like many other David Lynch films. First with stars flickering in the night. Then shots of a small town somewhere in America’s Midwest — green lawns and red brick buildings with industrial fixtures filling the background. Angelo Badalamenti’s mournful, string-laden score draws us in, emphasizing the quaintness of the visuals, while also suggesting a deeper pain at the core of this place. But instead of the psycho-sexual nightmares discovered in “Blue Velvet” and “Lost Highway” or the metaphysical crises faced in “The Elephant Man” and “Twin Peaks,” what we find instead is — as the title suggests — a very straightforward story, albeit one that’s emotional heft is far beyond words spoken and narrative unfurled.

From “Eraserhead” to “Twin Peaks: The Return,” and perhaps even earlier with his short films, Lynch’s oeuvre has always been consumed with love’s unwieldy power, not just in the...

Many here at JoBlo were thrown for a loop when the great David Lynch passed away earlier this week. Over the last few days, we’ve written at length about his life and career at the site, but now we figured the time was right to turn the spotlight over to our readers and have them choose his best work.

Now, a few things to mention: Lynch is one of the few directors whose work on both the big and small screen was equally inspired. At first, I was just going to include Lynch’s feature films in this poll, but then I realized there’s simply no way one could pay proper tribute to Lynch without mentioning the original Twin Peaks series, or Twin Peaks: The Return, which remains his final work of art. So, I’ve included them all, as it can’t be denied Twin Peaks is his most iconic work,...

Though appreciation for the work of David Lynch continues to grow, his films were often treated as an acquired taste, so those who were able to see the value in his often horrific, confounding material were particularly important to him. Such was the relationship with Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Fermaux, who programmed Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” at the festival in 2001 during his first year as artistic director. Lynch would go on to receive Best Director from the Cannes jury that year for the film.

“It played at 10:30 p.m. and it received an incredible ovation, even if people didn’t understand everything about it,” said Fremaux in a recent tribute (as per Variety). “They felt that it was a unique movie, and with the two actresses… It was just an instant classic.”

Fremaux went on to share how he came to appreciate Lynch as a human being the...

David Lynch, the acclaimed director known for his surreal approach to filmmaking, had planned a groundbreaking Netflix series before his passing. Throughout his career, Lynch became synonymous with experimental storytelling, with some of his more notable works including Blue Velvet (1986), Mulholland Drive (2001), and the groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks (1990). Lynch's influence on the industry is undeniable, with his signature style characterized by intricate character development, unsettling imagery, and psychological themes. Lynch passed away on January 18, shortly after being evacuated from his home due to the Sunset Fire in Los Angeles.

In a thoughtful Instagram tribute by Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos, Lynch was fully committed to this new untitled project, a limited series. The CEO reflected on his relationship with Lynch as he described the collaboration as one of the most exciting developments for the company before his passing, while also expressing that it represents a significant development in the late director's incredible legacy.

If there's one thing that David Lynch's passing on January 16th, 2025 revealed, it's that the filmmaker and artist had a profound and massive impact on so many people. This is, on paper, surprising, given how esoteric and offbeat his work was throughout his career, not to mention how unapologetic he was about that fact. A consummate artist, Lynch confounded and delighted so many in equal measure because he was that rarest of creatures: a quintessentially American surrealist. Americans are somewhat used to European filmmakers employing surrealism or symbolism; at least, they can easily dismiss foreign directors as coming from a culture and tradition they don't know and don't understand. Lynch doesn't allow people the comfort of that response, as even a cursory look at his filmography reveals it to be steeped in pure Americana: the wind blowing through Douglas Firs, the smell of fresh, hot, black coffee and cherry...

David Lynch’s death is leading many to go back and cherish – or possibly even discover for the first time – some of the director’s best films.

Lynch’s various acclaimed films and TV shows are spread out across a number of streaming platforms but all the classics are there for viewing pleasure while mourning the legend. Maybe it’s time to head back to Twin Peaks and the Black Lodge with a binge of Lynch’s iconic ’90s series, or perhaps it’s finally time to see how his ’80s version of “Dune” compares to the modern take.

Whether you want to revisit “Mulholland Drive” and “Eraserhead” or “Blue Velvet” and “Inland Empire,” here’s where to find the majority of Lynch’s most iconic work.

Streaming on Max Eraserhead (1977) Dune (1984) Blue Velvet (1986) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Inland Empire (2006) Streaming on Paramount+ Twin Peaks (1990-1991) Twin Peaks: The Return...

David Lynch, the undisputed master of surrealism and the uncanny, has left an indelible mark on the world of film and television. His works are characterized by haunting visuals, enigmatic narratives, and an unparalleled ability to explore the darker corners of human nature. Upon his passing, we hope to commemorate his lasting impact on the art of cinema with a closer look at seven of his most iconic projects, with my personal favorite, Twin Peaks, reigning supreme.

7. Dune (1984)

While Dune remains one of Lynch’s most polarizing works, it deserves recognition for its ambition and scale. Adapting Frank Herbert’s sprawling sci-fi epic was no small feat, and Lynch brought his unique visual style and atmospheric world-building to the project. Starring actor Kyle MacLachlan in his first collaboration with Lynch, the film immerses viewers in the desolate beauty of Arrakis.

Although Lynch famously disowned the final cut due to studio interference,...

Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux had a special bond with David Lynch. During his very first edition of the festival as artistic director in 2001, Fremaux had programmed “Mulholland Drive,” which won best director at the festival and went on to earn an Oscar nomination.

From then on, Fremaux and Lynch became friends. A year later, he brought Lynch back as president of the jury. When Lynch presented his follow-up to the groundbreaking TV series “Twin Peaks,” he brought the first two episodes of “Twin Peaks: The Return” Cannes, which made an exception by showing the episodes as part of the official selection, traditionally confined to movies. Prior to Fremaux’s tenure, Lynch won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with “Wild at Heart,” then had “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” and “The Straight Story” in the official selection.

Fremaux felt connected to Lynch for many reasons besides his lifelong loyalty to Cannes.

David Lynch, the filmmaker behind the iconic Twin Peaks and Eraserhead, among many others, died at 78 on Jan. 15, just days before his 79th birthday on Monday.

Lynch’s family posted an announcement on Lynch’s Facebook page on Thursday, alongside a photo of him with a guitar. The statement read, “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, “Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.”

The post concluded, “It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”

In August, Lynch disclosed that he had been diagnosed with emphysema – a chronic lung disease – as the result of years of smoking. He...

David Lynch is one of the most acclaimed directors of our time and he sadly passed away this week, but we can luckily watch a lot of his beloved movies on streaming.

Last year, David confirmed he was diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able to leave his house or ever direct again. He sadly passed away at the age of 78 this week.

David began his career as a painter and short animated and live action filmmaker before his 1977 feature debut Eraserhead, quickly garnering him acclaim and a cult following. His filmography includes the original Dune adaptation, Mulholland Drive, and the TV series Twin Peaks.

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1977 – Eraserhead

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For all the adulation that David Lynch, who died on January 16 at the age of 78, justifiably enjoyed for his artistry, there was a side to his work that was somewhat under-heralded: its earnestness. The boy-scout character of his interviews was almost certainly shtick, but there’s a despair to his movies that grounded even his wildest impulses in a fairy-tale directness that correlates with the shrewd yet wide-eyed persona that he presented to the public.

All of Lynch’s films are about innocence and idealism corrupted, and everything else stems from that confirmation of futility. In 1977’s Eraserhead, Jack Nance’s Henry is brought to madness over the frustrations of caring for his sick, deformed child, and his hopelessness is pushed to a breaking point that redefines his view of himself and sends him spiraling into new dimensions, following a rootless path of damnation that’s strikingly similar to the...

A few years back, I went to see my favourite David Lynch film, Mulholland Drive, at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. The house was, pleasingly, pretty much packed. And as the movie started, I sank into Lynch’s nocturnal underworld of haunted starlets and malevolent hoods. Then, something odd happened. Half an hour into the film, a group of about ten people shuffled into the empty row in front of us. They sat, stock still, as the albino Cowboy issued his enigmatic threats (“You will see me one more time if you do good. You will see me two more times if you do bad”) to Justin Theroux’s Hollywood director. Then, seemingly without signalling or even looking at each other, they all shuffled back out again, mere minutes after they’d sat down.

Who were these people? Had the Cowboy chilled their blood? Had they come into the wrong screen,...

The late David Lynch wrote a “masterful script” called One Saliva Bubble that Steve Martin nearly starred in during the early 1980s, Martin once relayed in an interview.

“1989,” corrected Martin Short.

“Were you offered that?” Martin asked.

Short sighed. “We were going to do it together.”

“Oh really?” said Martin, living his own Lynchian dream sequence. “I don’t remember that.”

Lynch and his Twin Peaks collaborator Mark Frost wrote One Saliva Bubble, an absurdist body-swap comedy that would have been the weirdest thing Short or Martin had ever done. Like many Lynch films, it would have been set in Small Town America. The plot: Chaos ensues when a tiny saliva bubble escapes a security guard’s mouth and floats into a secret government weapons system, setting off a chain reaction that causes the town’s residents to switch identities with one another.

In other words, Lynch told David Breskin,...

David Lynch revolutionized cinema — and now, Hollywood is paying tribute to the legendary auteur, who died Thursday at the age of 78.

Lynch made his feature debut in 1977 with “Eraserhead,” and his expansive career included features “Mulholland Drive,” “Dune,” and “Blue Velvet,” as well as iconic series “Twin Peaks.” Lynch’s family confirmed on social media that he died at age 78.

“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time,” the statement reads. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”

Lynch announced in August 2024 that he was diagnosed with emphysema. However, he told...

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 cinema. Seeing Lynch in conversation back in 2007 at London’s BFI Southbank, before the release of Inland Empire, I was very mindful of that fact, writing that “seeing him speak to a packed house, with that silver pompadour, that black suit and buttoned-up, tie-less shirt, made me feel like a witness to history, like seeing Picasso, Churchill or Fred Astaire.”

The Elephant Man producer Mel Brooks later went one better when I spoke to him in 2008. Describing their first meeting at Bob’s Big Boy Diner in Burbank — because Lynch only ever ate there, usually for a late lunch at 2.30 p.m. — Brooks said, “He looked just like Charles Lindbergh when he flew over the Atlantic.

Ask any cinephile what their favorite David Lynch moment is, and odds are they’ll have at least one—if not a revolving door of competing answers. His daily weather reports; his famed “get real!” comment on cell phone film-viewing; or his 10-city tour in early 2007 with a live cow in promotion of “Inland Empire.” I myself am quite fond of his enthusiastic one-word response to a public question regarding his favorite Werner Herzog film—“Stroszek! Hmhmhmhmhm!” Whatever your preferred Lynch moment happens to be, odds are, it may very well not even be a moment from one of his films.

By no means a slight against the enduring surrealist, the fact that Lynch’s legacy is in large part defined in the modern day (thanks to the wonders of the internet and meme culture) by his eccentricities outside the art he crafted is a testimony to just how alluring...

Following David Lynch‘s unexpected death, his legacy continues through his work and the people who were lucky enough to know him.

Mädchen Amick, who played waitress Shelly Johnson in Lynch’s hit ABC series Twin Peaks, paid tribute to the show’s creator in a heartfelt statement on Friday after he died at age 78.

“It’s hard for me to find the words to express the loss of, yes, a masterful genius but more importantly, a simply wonderful guy,” she said. “David Lynch was my mentor. How lucky was I? He was also my dear friend. Always there for a random check-in or life-changing advice.

“He was my north star. He watched me grow up. He watched me become a mother. He cheered me on when I stepped into the director’s chair. I will hold those long conversations we had in his home on the hill very close to my heart.

David Lynch will forever be known as a film auteur, though the consummate artist never restricted himself to a single medium. Painting, radio and even coffee production all fell within his repertoire — but Lynch’s final work as a director was “Twin Peaks: The Return.” Per the title, the 17-part Showtime series marked a homecoming of sorts for Lynch, who had circled back to the small screen after a quarter-century-long hiatus. With the ABC drama “Twin Peaks,” Lynch and his co-creator Mark Frost had already disrupted television for good. With “The Return,” Lynch cemented serial, episodic storytelling as a cornerstone of his legacy.

It’s now routine for a marquee director to dip their toe into television — so much so that it’s hard to recapture the impact of someone like Lynch following “Blue Velvet” up with a primetime soap. Before it was normal for Park Chan-Wook, Alfonso Cuarón or...

David Lynch transformed the landscape of cinema with films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” and changed the parameters of television with “Twin Peaks.” From one project to the next, he repeatedly merged the surreal and nightmarish with the wholesome and quaint, luxuriating in the grey areas between an idyllic portrait of smalltown Americana and the danger and mystery lurking beneath it. But almost as notable as his filmography, which was more selective than many auteurs his age, was the number of projects he was attached to or rumored to be considering, including adaptations of books like Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and bestseller “The White Hotel,” and even a meeting with George Lucas about the prospect of helming “Return of the Jedi.”

Many of these unrealized projects featured themes — or like “Mulholland Drive,” even started in different incarnations — that were revived or reimagined for other projects years later. Others originated...

Legendary American filmmaker David Lynch has died at the age of 78, it has been confirmed. The beloved director behind some of the most boundary-breaking works of cinema – from Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive to Inland Empire – had previously announced a diagnosis of emphysema that left him unable to leave the house.

The news was confirmed in a Facebook post from Lynch’s family that reads as follows: “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”

David Keith Lynch was born on 20 January, 1946 in Missoula,...

Few television shows, if any, have conjured more apt descriptions than “Twin Peaks.” I’ve heard it called “hilarious” and “terrifying,” “tender” and “savage,” “inspirational” and “heartbreaking,” sometimes in the same breath. It’s been labeled “stupid” by people I consider brilliant, and “brilliant” by people I consider less than qualified to assess such things. Viewers have combed every corner of David Lynch’s long-lingering frames for extra tidbits of intel and meaning, while others spot those blood-red curtains hanging over black-and-white tiles and can’t change the channel fast enough.

Plenty of TV shows — and yes, “Twin Peaks” and “Twin Peaks: The Return” are unquestionably TV shows — evoke mixed, even contradictory, reactions that can be deemed fair critiques by an impartial observer. But how many of those shows invite a seemingly infinite number of reactions, almost all of which could be justified? Is “Twin Peaks” a “boring” TV show?...

Kyle MacLachlan has paid tribute to David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker known for “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and “Twin Peaks,” who died at the age of 78.

“Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision,” MacLachlan wrote Thursday in an Instagram post. “What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.”

He continued, “Our friendship blossomed on ‘Blue Velvet’ and then ‘Twin Peaks’ and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the...

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If you’re looking to revisit some of David Lynch’s most seminal works following the iconic director-writer’s death on Thursday morning, there are a variety of box sets online featuring his expansive film collection.

Lynch radicalized American film with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” “Mulholland Drive” and “Lost Highway,” and continued to meld elements of horror, film noir, the whodunit and classical European surrealism in the ’90s TV show “Twin Peaks.” Now, nearly all of his films are available in 4K in recently-released Blu-ray sets, in addition to an upcoming 4K re-release of “Twin Peaks,” available to pre-order on Amazon now.

Seven of Lynch’s films are 4K restored on Criterion, all of which include bonus content, deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes short films: “Blue Velvet,...

One of the all-time greats is gone. That thought went through my head this afternoon when word came down that David Lynch, the incredible mind behind Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and so many more, was no longer with us. The news was a shock as, despite his fragile health, Lynch was still pretty active, teasing potential new projects and also receiving rave reviews for his acting turn as John Ford in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. Of course, with this news, it’s time to take a look back at the master’s work, and lucky for us, he leaves an incredible cinematic legacy behind. We all have our favorite David Lynch movies, but here are my top 5 picks:

Lost Highway (1997):

This was an important movie in my cinematic education. It came out in the late nineties, at a time when I was coming of age as a potential cinephile.

David Lynch, one of the most beloved and influential filmmakers in the history of American cinema, has died at the age of 78. The news was confirmed on Lynch's official Facebook page with the following statement:

"It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us. But, as he would say, 'Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.' It's a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way."

Lynch is known for films like "Eraserhead" (his feature directorial debut), "Blue Velvet," and "Mulholland Drive," but perhaps his best-known work is the surreal, atmospheric murder mystery series "Twin Peaks," which ran for two seasons in the early '90s, received a...

We have some very sad news to report today, as the family of David Lynch has taken to social media to confirm that the legendary filmmaker, who would have turned 79 on January 20th, has passed away. His family wrote, “It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.“

Just last year, Lynch revealed that he was homebound and on oxygen due to emphysema – but that didn’t mean he had any intention of retiring. Although Lynch hadn’t directed a feature film since Inland Empire in 2006, but...

David Lynch, the trailblazing filmmaker and artist who made the familiar strange and the unfamiliar terrifying, has died at the age of 78.

“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” according to a statement released Thursday on Facebook. “We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'”

“It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way,” the statement concluded, referencing his cherished weather reports.

Since 2020, Lynch had been suffering from emphysema, which had left him confined to his house and relying on supplemental oxygen. According to Deadline, he was recently forced to relocate from his Los Angeles-area house due to the...

David Lynch—the visionary director of Twin Peaks and films such as Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and Inland Empire—has died. His family announced the filmmaker's death in a post on his official Facebook page, writing "It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist,...

When Twin Peaks first hit screens in 1990, it brought something entirely unique to television. Created by the visionary David Lynch, the show quickly became a cultural phenomenon, captivating audiences with its amazing characters and eerie small-town mysteries. Even decades later, Twin Peaks remains a timeless masterpiece. This show draws in new fans daily.

Twin Peaks | Credit: ABC

Despite its huge popularity, you might be curious about why the show was canceled. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, much to the disappointment of its fans, the show’s journey came to an unexpected end.

Twin Peaks was a hit

When Twin Peaks premiered, it was an instant sensation. The two-hour pilot alone drew an impressive 34.6 million viewers, becoming the highest-rated episode of any TV show during the 1989-1990 season. The excitement carried over to the first regular one-hour episode, which secured ABC’s best ratings in that time slot in four years,...

Exclusive: Veteran VFX executive Christina Wise has joined Tippett Studio, the animation and visual effects production company of Oscar-winning filmmaker Phil Tippett, as Vice President of Business Development.

Reporting to Tippett CEO Gary Mundell, Wise’s duties will include feature film development and production for the studio, as well as visual effects production, virtual stage workflow, and new media business development.

Wise is a production executive with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment field, spanning theatre, public relations, live events, business development, feature film production, and visual effects. She began her career in live entertainment at Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas as a production assistant on Mystère at Treasure Island. After moving to Los Angeles, she worked on the client side as production executive for Warp Films and New Regency on Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Jumper. The latter film sparked an interest in visual effects, which led...

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Based on a True Story season 2!Sara Paxton is showcasing a new side of her acting skills in Based on a True Story season 2. Paxton first rose to success in her teens with the teen fantasy rom-com Aquamarine which, while not initially a blockbuster success, did go on to become a cult favorite, propelling her to stardom with subsequent roles in Return to Halloweentown, the Amanda Bynes-co-starring Sydney White and remake of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left. More recently, Paxton has been seen in everything from the Hugh Jackman-led Bad Education to Ana de Armas' Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde and Twin Peaks: The Return.

Paxton joins the Based on a True Story season 2 cast as Paige, the sister of Natalia Dyer's Chloe, one of the main victims of Tom Bateman's Westside Ripper in season 1. Initially introduced as...

Any “Twin Peaks” fan worth their garmonbozia knows Episode 8 of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s revival season “The Return,” from 2017, is the visual and thematic standout. Directing, Lynch traces the origins of an evil presence named Judy — rooting it back to the U.S.’s development of the atomic bomb — in an episode that explains where the series-legacy killer “Bob” came from and how that force has landed now-dazed FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in a detached red-room netherworld.

But one of the centerpieces of the iconic episode is a visceral performance courtesy of “The” Nine Inch Nails, in the red-lit Twin Peaks Roadhouse Bar, of “She’s Gone Away,” a violent, grunge-fueled ode to destruction and the places you dig into “’til your fingers bleed.” The song was a track on Nine Inch Nails’ 2016 EP “Not Actual Events,” an angry and haunting and weirdly dance-friendly (certainly given...

Our top pick this week, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” may not seem like an Academy Awards contender at first glance, but our predictions indicate it’s likely to earn a nomination for Best Makeup & Hairstyling. It’s quite an achievement turning Michael Keaton into the freaky “bio-exorcist” Betelgeuse.

Tim Burton returns to direct this nearly 40-years-in-the-making sequel, which reunites original film stars Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara and adds Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, and Burton’s “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega. This time, Lydia (Ryder) agrees to marry Betelegeuse in order to enter the Netherworld and save her daughter Astrid (Ortega). It’s a darkly whimsical sequel that’s Burton’s best film in a decade, and it’s now available on Max.

Here are some other movies to stream this weekend:

“Smile 2”: This blockbuster sequel is one of the highest-grossing horror movies of the year. Widely considered...

Sky Ferreira is having her comeback, releasing her first new song in three years, “Leash,” for Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl.” Speaking to IndieWire, the 32-year-old pop star and actress reflected on her work with David Lynch. Ferreira cameo’d in the 2017 “Twin Peaks: The Return” revival as Ella — a woman with a terrible rash at the Roadhouse bar — and even covered “Blue Velvet” for him.

“There’s a lot of surprises, because you never know what you’re doing,” Ferreira told IndieWire. “It was funny, because you get the script maybe the day before. Like, I knew that I was doing ‘Twin Peaks,’ but I didn’t know what I was going to do. Literally the day before when I read it, I really didn’t know what I was going to do.

“But when I was doing it, it suddenly made sense when he [David Lynch] was directing me,” she said.

While there is a lot of competition for the title, Mike Flanagan earned the accolade of the greatest horror miniseries of all time six years ago when the director released Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House. The horror miniseries rarely receive as much attention as horror movies or horror TV shows in terms of format, but the format offers directors an opportunity to tell a bigger, more immersive story without necessarily committing to multiple seasons. From 1978’s Salem’s Lot to 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, the horror miniseries has a unique place in cultural history.

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Horror legend Mike Flanagan singled out a 2024 Irish horror movie for praise, and the director was right to praise this acclaimed indie hidden gem.

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With turkeys packed in bellies and holiday gift shopping now officially underway, it’s getting to be that time of year where we look back on 2024 and reflect on what’s most important: The movies that made it all bearable. Kicking things off, the storied French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema has released its top 10, which include some selections from IndieWire’s own 2023 best-of list. Though our official 2024 list is not yet locked in, we also share some items on our 2024, so far best-of list. The list only includes movies that opened theatrically in France in 2024, hence the crossover.

Serving as the hub for the French New Wave and launching the careers of legendary talents such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Cahiers du Cinema has been in publication since 1951 and continues to offer a bold, distinct voice in the world of film. One of its more unique choices over...

“Beatles ’64” is here.

The documentary, which just debuted on Disney+, investigates the cultural impact of the group’s arrival in America. It’s fascinating and frequently entertaining, utilizing footage that documentary legends Albert and David Maysles shot for a 1964 documentary called “What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.,” mixed with other contemporaneous footage (lovingly restored using the same process that Peter Jackson used for “Get Back”) and more recent talking head interviews.

And one of those talking head interviews will surely shock you when, out of nowhere, filmmaker David Lynch pops up to talk about his connection to the band. The last project that Lynch directed was 2017’s brain-breaking “Twin Peaks: The Return.” His last feature was “Inland Empire,” released way back in 2006. And he has been battling, fairly publicly, with crippling emphysema which puts any future project in doubt. It was very nice to see him.

David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks, is opening up about the lifelong smoking habit that has left him facing serious health challenges.

The 77-year-old director, who started smoking at the age of 8 and only quit at 76, now requires supplemental oxygen for any physical activity beyond walking across a room.

Lynch was diagnosed with emphysema in 2020, a condition that severely affects his ability to breathe.

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“In the back of every smoker’s mind is the fact that it’s healthy, so you’re literally playing with fire,” Lynch told People. “It can bite you. I took a chance, and I got bit.”

Despite his diagnosis, Lynch didn’t quit cigarettes immediately. “I saw the writing on the wall, and it said, ‘You’re going to die in a week if you don’t stop,...