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For decades, the films of David Lynch have been defined by their eerie, surreal qualities -- visions of Americana that cover up a thinly veiled dark, dreamlike undercurrent. Yet, while the director's works are often remembered for their unsettling imagery, cryptic storytelling, and moments of outright horror, there is an essential component that is frequently overlooked by those who attempt to imitate his style: an unshakable belief in kindness and sincerity. Beneath the nightmarish small towns and uncanny performances, Lynch’s films radiate an earnest love for people, their quirks, and their ability to find goodness even in the strangest circumstances, just like the man himself.

Surprisingly, the modern film franchise that carries this torch of earnestness and humanistic storytelling isn't one of the many self-consciously weird Lynchian imitators -- it’s the Paddington movies. On the surface, the journey of a wholesome, marmalade-loving bear from Peru might seem as...

The entertainment industry suffered an enormous loss on January 15 following the tragic passing of famed director, David Lynch. The filmmaker, known for projects like Twin Peaks and The Elephant Man, worked with several top stars of the industry, but there was one star that slipped through his fingers. There was arguably no bigger pop culture phenomenon in the '80s and '90s than Madonna, and despite several efforts to do so, the late Lynch never got the opportunity for the singer turned actress to star in one of his creations.

Throughout that time, Madonna starred in iconic films such as A League Of Their Own, cementing herself as a singer with at least some semblance of acting prowess (for the most part). However, for whatever reason, it was not meant to be, and regardless of any plans Lynch may have had, it never went beyond the planning phase.

In an interview with Empire,...

In recognition of his incredible contributions to cinema and television, late screenwriter and director David Lynch will receive the 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. Though the award will be presented posthumously, the Guild has stated that Lynch was aware that he had been nominated, and accepted this incredible and entirely well-deserved honor just weeks before his death on Jan.15.

Per Deadline, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement is a lifetime achievement that commemorates Lynch's entire body of work, and is presented to members of the Guild who have "advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter." In a statement regarding the decision to nominate Lynch, Wgaw President Meredith Stiehm stated: "Writer-director David Lynch’s uncompromising vision pushed the boundaries of filmmaking. We're proud to honor him and his legacy." The award will be presented on Feb.

David Lynch, one of cinema's all-time great auteurs, passed away in January 2025 at the age of 78. Lynch began his movie career at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where, while studying painting, he made several short films. In 1970, Lynch transferred from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to the newly founded AFI Conservatory, where he started studying filmmaking. With the help of the American Film Institute, Lynch made his debut feature film, Eraserhead, in 1977.

Through the ten feature films he directed, Lynch established a body of work that combined surrealist, horror, and neo-noir aesthetics to examine the darkness that exists under the facade of the American Dream. Movies such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire best represent what has become known as the Lynchian aesthetic. However, Lynch also showed his range as a filmmaker with the...

Descubre los cines que proyectarán el ciclo especial. © Getty Images

El pasado 15 de enero, el mundo del cine perdió a David Lynch, uno de los directores más influyentes e inimitables de la historia. Desde entonces, el séptimo arte está de luto, pero como dijo el propio Lynch: «Mantén tu vista en la rosquilla, no en el agujero». Y es que, lo que toca ahora es celebrar su legado. Es por ello que Avalon nos trae de vuelta a los cines el Universo David Lynch, un ciclo especial que nos permitirá revivir (o descubrir) su filmografía más emblemática en la pantalla grande.

Son seis películas en total, aunque algunos cines proyectarán el ciclo completo y otros solo una película. Las elegidas son Cabeza borradora (1978), El hombre elefante (1980), Twin Peaks: Fuego camina conmigo (1992), Carretera perdida (1997), Una historia verdadera (1999) y Mulholland Drive (2001).

Lo mejor de todo es que este homenaje póstumo se expande por (casi) toda España.

Chicago – Filmmaker and cultural icon David Lynch passed away on January 16th, 2025. As a life-in-film admirer, I (Patrick McDonald) knew a regular obituary was not enough … besides you can find more high falutin’ tributes elsewhere everywhere. So, I decided to do a video tribute (below) as if I were doing a eulogy.

First, a bit of a conventional obituary. David Keith Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, and was a visual artist, musician, and actor. He received acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Lynch is considered one of the most important filmmakers of his era.

David Lynch, 1946-2025

Photo credit: David Lynch Facebook Page

Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film was the independent surrealist film “Eraserhead” (1977), which saw success in the first era of midnight movies.

1986's Blue Velvet, the neo-noir thriller from David Lynch, is finding success on streaming following the death of its great director. The movie, starring Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan, has climbed to the list of most-watched films on Max. Blue Velvet stars Rossellini and MacLachlan alongside Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Hope Lange, Frances Bay, Brad Dourif, and Jack Nance, among others. Written and directed by Lynch, Blue Velvet is a classic thriller that follows Jeffrey Beaumont, who becomes part of a criminal conspiracy that involves a lounge singer named Dorothy and a violent gangster named Frank Booth.

The synopsis reads as follows:

"The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child."

Released in the middle of the 1980s, the same year as Top Gun,...

“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...

The late David Lynch was always best known for his fascination with the grotesque. Although Lynch never considered himself a surrealist, his films often stretched into the surreal, presenting a dark, bent version of reality where only dream logic applies. His debut feature, "Eraserhead," he once described as "a dream of dark and troubling things." Many celebrated his controversial 1986 neo-noir "Blue Velvet," a film that is full of murder, kink, and aggressive sexuality. He deconstructed soap opera dynamics with his somnambulistic TV series (and subsequent feature film version of) "Twin Peaks," went on a lusty crime spree with "Wild at Heart," and made a shadowy contemplation of shifting identities with his porn-inflected 1997 flick "Lost Highway."

Then, in 1999, Lynch did the strangest thing he could have possibly done. He made a G-rated biographical movie for the Disney company.

For "The Straight Story," Lynch eschewed his usual obsessions with sex, death, and violence,...

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...

Quick Links 'Eraserhead' (1977) and 'The Elephant Man' (1980) 'Dune' (1984) and 'Blue Velvet' (1986) 'Wild at Heart' (1990) and 'Lost Highway' (1997) 'The Straight Story' (1999), 'Mulholland Drive' (2001), and 'Inland Empire' (2006) 'Twin Peaks' (1990-1991), 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' (1992), and 'Twin Peaks: The Return' (2017)

The distinguished American director David Lynch died yesterday after battling emphysema, a lung disease caused by smoking. Hollywood is mourning the passing of the visionary and iconic director and remembering his legacy in the film industry. His films received critical acclaim for their dark, surrealistic vision, revolutionizing American films and how future directors approach filmmaking. As one of the greatest directors in the American film industry, Lynch left behind an astonishing filmography that includes 10 feature films along with his iconic Twin Peaks television series. He ventured from big-scale cinema...

Just as we were about to record this week’s “Screen Talk,” we found out that one of our favorite auteurs, David Lynch, had succumbed to emphysema at age 78. In this episode, we explore his legacy, catch up with awards news from the PGA and BAFTAs to the WGA, and report on a new development in the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni case.

Plus, we each picked five must-see films at Sundance, which launches January 23, the same day as the Oscar nominations are announced, after some postponements. Co-host Ryan Lattanzio interviewed Robert Schwartzman, who runs Utopia distribution with Cole Harper. The company partnered with Lionsgate on “Megalopolis,” from Schwartzman’s uncle Francis Ford Coppola, and hawked sales for Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” back at Cannes. That movie is out now from Roadside Attractions. But Utopia has also released indies from rising directors we know now, including Jane Schoenbrun...

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,...

In the age of streaming, there’s a widespread belief that every movie is available, all the time, everywhere. Don’t fall for it! Some of the greatest movies ever made are nowhere to be found due to everything from music rights snafus to corporate negligence. In this column, we take a look at films currently out-of-print on physical media and unavailable on any streaming platform in an effort to draw attention to them and say to their rights holders, “Release This!”

At the end of 1999, Entertainment Weekly ran a cover story titled “The Year That Changed Movies,” celebrating the abundance of highwire masterpieces that the American film industry seemed to be cranking out on a weekly basis that year. “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Magnolia,” “The Limey,” “Fight Club,” “Being John Malkovich,” “Election,” “Boys Don’t Cry”, “The Straight Story,” “The Sixth Sense,” “Bringing Out the Dead,” “The Matrix,” and “Three Kings” are just a random sampling,...

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 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.

So, which movies are available on streaming?

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1977 – Eraserhead

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1980 – The Elephant Man

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I learned about David Lynch’s passing in the most David Lynch possible way: doing jury duty. A fellow potential juror told me the news as we waited in the stark, Kafka-esque halls of L.A.’s Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice building. Instantly, the stone-faced bailiffs and unblinking prosecutors took on a subtle air of menace, as if I’d been sucked right into a cut scene from Twin Peaks or Lost Highway. When the Judge asked how I’d weigh eyewitness testimony, I couldn’t refrain from citing the power of framing in presenting evidence, or the inescapably unreliable nature of memory. The judge lectured me: “You do realize this is real-life, and not a television show?” I was quickly dismissed from jury duty.

Reading the odes to Lynch, his art, and the supremely unique notion of the “Lynchian” he left the world, many have lovingly called him a surrealist master.

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.

The international film community is paying tribute to the late, great David Lynch, who died this week, aged 78.

Italian-American actress Isabella Rossellini, who had her breakthrough role in Lynch’s Blue Velvet, and was Lynch’s romantic partner for several years, posted a photo of the two of them on her Instagram early Friday morning, including the simple caption: “I loved him so much. Thanks for all your kind messages.”

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Rossellini played a supporting role in Lynch’s Wild at Heart, which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. Speaking to THR at the European Film Awards last December, where she received a lifetime achievement award, Rossellini said she and Lynch remained in close contact since Blue Velvet, regularly texting and speaking on the phone.

On Friday, the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals...

The Cannes Film Festival has paid tribute to director David Lynch who was a long-time habitué, winning it Palme d’Or prize for Wild at Heart in 1990 and serving as jury president in 2002.

“It is with infinite sadness that we learn of the passing of David Lynch, a unique and visionary artist whose work has influenced cinema like few others,” the festival said in a statement following the announcement of the director’s death on Thursday at the age of 78.

“Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes in 1990 for Sailor and Lula (Wild At Heart), then the Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director) in 2001 for Mulholland Drive, he elegantly presided over the Jury in 2002,” it continued. “He leaves behind a rare and timeless body of work, whose films will continue to nourish our imagination and inspire all those who see cinema as an art capable of revealing the unspeakable.

In heaven everything is fine, David. © Getty Images

David Lynch, que estás en los sueños (y sobre todo en las pesadillas), venerado sea tu nombre por los feligreses del séptimo arte. Fuiste -y eres- uno de los cineastas más innovadores, rompedores, vanguardistas y únicos de la historia del cine, hasta tal punto que creaste un género propio que lleva tu nombre. Aunque hayas tenido algunos mediocres imitadores, una película de David Lynch solo la puede imaginar David Lynch.

Ahora que has trascendido, seguramente podrás reunirte con algunos de los turbadores personajes que creaste en tu mente. Quien sabe si el bebé deforme de Cabeza borradora (1977) te acompañará con su adorable llanto persistente -y lleno de flema- durante toda la eternidad. Podría ser que John Merrick, el incomprendido -y poco apreciado nivel estético- protagonista de El hombre elefante (1980), te ofrezca una taza de té con sus maravillosos modales ingleses. Puede que,...

David Lynch, director of film classics such as Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man, and co-creator of the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, has died aged 78.

His family announced the news in a Facebook post, saying:“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...

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...

I'm ashamed to admit that this review was originally mean-spirited, an attempted dexterous put-down, but then David Lynch died today. He has nothing to do with Back in Action, and it's only a matter of cosmic happenstance that the two would be mentioned in the same paragraph, let alone one train of thought. I loved Lynch's work. I also loved Roger Ebert's work as a film critic. He did not like most of Lynch's films before The Straight Story, and yet, with his particular generosity of spirit and ability to give people the intellectual benefit of doubt, he was never mean about it. He wrote in his review of Wild at Heart:

"There is something inside of me that resists the films of David Lynch. I am aware of it, I admit to it, but I cannot think my way around it. I sit and watch his...

David Lynch is one of the most prolific — and certainly singular — American directors of the last 50 years, and his death was met Thursday with innumerable tributes and memories from collaborators like Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”), Naomi Watts (“Mulholland Drive”) and Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”).

And while his body of work speaks for itself, the outpouring of support and grief and celebration of Lynch’s life showed just how many people he touched in his decades as one of Hollywood’s most unique voices.

Below, TheWrap has rounded up a number of memorable moments of Lynch throughout the years, including taking “Wild at Heart” to the Cannes International Film Festival in 1990 with stars Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd and Isabella Rossellini; celebrating Dern’s Hollywood Walk of Film induction with Mark Ruffalo in 2010; and working to film “The Straight Story” in 1998.

Read on for a full gallery of...

There are certain artists who are so visionary, so daring in their originality, whose work casts such a primal and enduring spell that it literally becomes hard to imagine the world without them. David Lynch, who died this week at 78, was one of those artists. Just to say that name, David Lynch (so ironic in its simplicity), is to conjure not merely a roster of immortal movies but a higher cosmos of the imagination: a darkly transfixing surrealist theme park where dreams could become real and reality felt like a dream.

Lynch, in his fearless way, reinvented movies, letting the avant-garde rapture of his brain flower into an aesthetic that turned the tropes of Hollywood inside out. My first encounter with a Lynch movie came in 1977, when I was in college and one of our campus film societies had the inspiration to put a giant image of the title character...

The world of film lost one of its biggest, most unconventional names this week with the death of David Lynch at the age of 78. Lynch was one of the most singular filmmakers to have ever lived, and his is a filmography where that descriptor, "singular," really does fit. Lynch was a one-of-a-kind director, whose work was so unique, so head-scratching, yet so compelling that he was able to create indelible image after indelible image across stories set in the worlds of science fiction, suburbia, and everywhere in between. But what that also means is that David Lynch was among the most divisive directors. A few people have noted that Lynch's last notable piece of work was as the legendary John Ford in the final scene of Steven Spielberg's 2022 film "The Fabelmans"; his one-scene cameo is absolutely delightful, hilarious, and kind of as inexplicable as the rest of Lynch's career.

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,...

David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker who died Thursday at 78, months after revealing he had been diagnosed with emphysema as a lifetime smoker, was such an essential figure in the history of cinema that he had his own adjective: Lynchian. The term describes works that share characteristics with some of his most memorable creations.

Lynch’s work was unmistakable. “I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade,” Steven Spielberg, who cast Lynch to play John Ford in The Fabelmans, said in the aftermath of his friend’s death. It’s a sentiment shared widely on social media over the last several hours.

In movies like 1986’s Blue Velvet, 1997’s Lost Highway, and 2001’s Mulholland Drive — not to mention the 1990s ABC TV drama Twin Peaks — Lynch portrayed a mundane America of seemingly pastoral splendor undercut by stupefaction and terror.

On the surface, David Lynch’s underrated 1999 masterpiece The Straight Story couldn’t be further from the director's typical style and subject matter. However, the road movie tackles many of the same themes and even has a lot of aesthetic similarities to Lynch's films like Blue Velvet, and especially his TV show Twin Peaks. This may be difficult to comprehend considering that it is a G-rated Disney movie that has a huge beating heart and deep empathy for its characters, but neither of those things is foreign to Lynch. With Lynch having passed away at the age of 78, The Straight Story is a fascinating film in the auteur's work, a film that looks unlike anything he's ever done before, yet has a heart that feels similar to his previous projects.

Editor’s note: All figures below are adjusted unless otherwise noted.

David Lynch, who died this week at the age of 78, was the kind of visionary artist whose value has little to do with its commercial success at the time. Still, a review of the U.S./Canada box office for his 10 feature film releases shows most attracted interest from devotees, with his two first studio films by far getting the most theatrical response.

Adjusting their reported domestic box office to about $11/ticket (current average), his second and third films — “The Elephant Man” (1980) and “Dune” (1984) — stand out above all others. “Elephant Man” stands at about $106 million, “Dune” at $103 million. (These and all subsequent dollar amounts are stated at 2025 values; see the full Lynch feature film ranking at the bottom of this story.)

His most profitable film, in terms of return on investment at least, was “Eraserhead” (1977), his first. Released primarily as a midnight film,...

David Lynch is dead at the age of 78. By any measure the most influential filmmaker of our time, the Missoula, Montana-born artist left such a mark that his very name became an adjective. There’s Hitchcockian, and then there’s Lynchian.

Controversial, visionary, and absolutely singular, his films from “Eraserhead” and “Blue Velvet” to “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive” were immersive plunges into rich cinematic landscapes of twisted psyches and luscious surfaces.

The news of Lynch’s death was confirmed on his official Facebook page.

“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...

Descanse en paz. © Getty Images

El cine está hoy de luto. Despedimos a uno de los visionarios más grandes que cambió para siempre la forma en la que entendemos el cine. A los 78 años, ha fallecido el cineasta David Lynch, conocido en todo el mundo por su inconfundible y característico estilo surrealista ‘noir’, alucinatorio y plagado de onirismo. Su estilo tan único incluso recibe hoy día un adjetivo propio: «lynchiano». Y muy «lynchianas» que son cada una de sus obras: Terciopelo azul, Cabeza borradora, Twin Peaks, El hombre elefante, Una historia verdadera, Carretera perdida… Actrices de la talla de Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern y Nicole Kidman han sido parte (y siempre lo serán) de su particular y fascinante universo.

En año pasado, el mismo director reveló que le habían diagnosticado un enfisema tras toda una vida fumando. Fue en noviembre cuando habló con crudeza de las dificultades respiratorias que atravesaba,...

Filmmaker David Lynch, a true visionary known best for helming Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, and Dune, has died aged 78. Last year, the writer and director revealed he'd been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking.

Lynch said at the time he was unsure about directing again due to being unable to leave his home. On Facebook, his family wrote, "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," the statement continued. "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, who had an eye for the unusual and extraordinary, made his...

David Lynch, director of film classics such as Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man, and co-creator of the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, has died aged 78.

His family announced the news in a Facebook post, saying:“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...

David Lynch, whose darkly surreal films include “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the groundbreaking series “Twin Peaks,” has died at age 78. Prior to his death, he suffered from emphysema.

His family announced his death on Facebook 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.”

That last line is taken from Lynch’s daily Los Angeles weather forecasts, which he began during the pandemic.

In an interview with Sight & Sound magazine (via The Independent) last August, the director said,...

Beloved filmmaker David Lynch has passed away. He was 78 years old.

On his official social media channels, Lynch's death was announced by his family. His passing follows the Oscar-nominated filmmaker announcing in 2024 that he'd been diagnosed with emphysema, noting that the associated health issues would likely prevent him from ever directing another film. Specific details about his final moments were not shared as the family is asking for privacy in the wake of Lynch's passing.

It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would...Posted by David Lynch on Thursday, January 16, 2025

The family's statement noted, "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.

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...

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” died Jan. 15. He was 78.

Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able to leave his house to direct any longer. His family announced his death in a Facebook post, writing, “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 “Twin Peaks” TV show and films such as “Blue Velvet,” “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive” melded elements of horror, film noir, the whodunit and classical European surrealism. Lynch wove tales, not unlike those of his Spanish predecessor Luis Bunuel, which proceeded with their own impenetrable logic.

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,...

Denzel Washington wasn’t too pleased to lose the Best Actor Oscar to “American Beauty” star Kevin Spacey — so much so, in fact, that he felt bitterness over his “Hurricane” loss for years to come.

The actor (who later won the top Oscar for “Training Day”) revealed in an interview with Esquire published Tuesday that the resentment of the situation lasted “for about 15 years.”

The topic arose mid-interview while discussing his filmography. That’s when he recalled the night he lost to Spacey at the 2000 Academy Awards.

“At the Oscars, they called Kevin Spacey’s name for ‘American Beauty.’ I have a memory of turning around and looking at him, and nobody was standing but the people around him. And everyone else was looking at me,” Washington explained. “Not that it was this way. Maybe that’s the way I perceived it. Maybe I felt like everybody was looking at me.

Denzel Washington is looking back on how he felt after losing the Best Actor Oscar to Kevin Spacey in 2000. The Gladiator II star, who had already won one Oscar and earned three other nominations before that ceremony, was nominated again for playing Rubin Carter in 1999’s The Hurricane.

He competed against Spacey for American Beauty, Russell Crowe for The Insider, Richard Farnsworth for The Straight Story, and Sean Penn for Sweet and Lowdown. In the end, Spacey took home the award, though Washington did win the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama that year.

“At the Oscars, they called Kevin Spacey’s name for American Beauty,” Denzel remembers. “I have a memory of turning around and looking at him, and nobody was standing but the people around him. And everyone else was looking at me. Not that it was this way. Maybe that’s the way I perceived it.

Denzel Washington is recalling his reaction to losing the best actor Oscar to Kevin Spacey in 2000.

The Gladiator II actor, who had already won one Oscar and scored three other nominations before that year’s ceremony, received another nomination for his role as Rubin Carter in 1999’s The Hurricane. He was up against Spacey for American Beauty, Russell Crowe for The Insider, Richard Farnsworth for The Straight Story and Sean Penn for Sweet and Lowdown; however, the Academy Award ultimately went to Spacey (Washington won the Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture drama that year).

“At the Oscars, they called Kevin Spacey’s name for American Beauty,” he recalled to Esquire magazine. “I have a memory of turning around and looking at him, and nobody was standing but the people around him. And everyone else was looking at me. Not that it was this way. Maybe that...

Denzel Washington revealed to Esquire magazine as part of a new cover story that he got bitter after losing the best actor Oscar to Kevin Spacey in 2000. Washington was already a three-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner when his performance as Rubin Carter in “The Hurricane” landed him in the Oscar race for best actor opposite Spacey (“American Beauty”), Russell Crowe (“The Insider”), Richard Farnsworth (“The Straight Story”) and Sean Penn (“Sweet and Lowdown”). Washington won a Golden Globe for his performance, but the Oscar went to Spacey.

“At the Oscars, they called Kevin Spacey’s name for ‘American Beauty,'” Washington said. “I have a memory of turning around and looking at him, and nobody was standing but the people around him. And everyone else was looking at me. Not that it was this way. Maybe that’s the way I perceived it. Maybe I felt like everybody was looking at me.

David Lynch is one of the most unique filmmakers of all-time, as he managed to turn surrealist filmmaking into a genre that many more cinephiles were introduced to. While Lynch has flirted with more mainstream projects like an adaptation of Frank Herberts science fiction novel Dune and the inspirational drama The Straight Story, a majority of his work is tough to pin down to any standard classifications of genre due to the influence of crime, noir, fantasy, and satire.

In just over a decade, Mike Flanagan went from promising indie director to one of the best American genre filmmakers working today. Starting with Absentia and Oculus, he soon worked his way up to studio fare (Doctor Sleep) before spending the past several years making Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher. With The Life of Chuck, his first film in five years, Flanagan takes a step away from horror to make an elaborate drama about life and mortality. It’s only a slight step outside of his wheelhouse, as he’s adapting a non-horror novella by none other than Stephen King, an author he worships for better and worse.

Shown in reverse order, the film opens with “Act Three,” which focuses on schoolteacher Marty (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his ex-wife Felicia (Karen Gillan), a nurse at the town’s overwhelmed hospital. We...

Date: February 19th, 2024, David Lynch orders a milkshake. It is 2:30 p.m., and that is precisely when he sits down at Bob’s Big Boy every day. It could be day one or the last day of a seven-year run. But it is still a milkshake, and it’s all the same, but never monotonous. It is here, at Bob’s Big Boy – a quintessential American experience – that David Lynch builds his world. And it was in a booth that he met Frank Booth. Not literally – Hollywood’s not that messed up – but through his mind. It was places like Bob’s Big Boy that helped represent David Lynch in the professional part of his career, and before that, he was in love with the design of Coca-Cola bottles and Studebakers. Perhaps he is the greatest American filmmaker to ever live – not the greatest filmmaker born in America but...

David Lynch, the groundbreaking director of “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the creator of “Twin Peaks,” says that it’s unlikely that he’ll direct again after being diagnosed with emphysema.

In an interview with Sight & Sound magazine (via The Independent), the 78-year-old director said, ““I’ve gotten emphysema from smoking for so long and so I’m homebound whether I like it or not. It would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold.” He is afraid of catching Covid-19 and doesn’t “go out” anymore. He also said that he can “only walk a short distance” before he’s “out of oxygen.”

Still, the director, who last helmed the ambitious third season of “Twin Peaks” for Showtime in 2017, leaves the door open for directing remotely. “I would do it remotely if it comes to it,” Lynch told the publication, although he did say,...