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David Lynch did far more than just make “weird” movies, given how moving his work could be (see The Elephant Man and The Straight Story), and because even his strange films (like Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me) had exceptionally insightful things to say about certain realities. Nonetheless, his eccentric stylistic choices made him stand out as a filmmaker, so much so that the term “Lynchian” now exists.

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.

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Some Spoilers For ‘Twin Peaks’ & ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’ Contained

Everyone has their white whale; that elusive treasure or goal that they fetishise and dare to find and covet. For some it was the lost footage from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. For others it was the mythical buried reels of The Wicker Man, which rather ludicrously had been rumoured for years to be buried in the concrete foundations of an English motorway. For me it was always the deleted scenes of David Lynch’s much maligned Twin Peaks prequel Fire Walk with Me. Even in a pre-internet, pre-dvd extras age, I obsessed over this rumoured material and what possible insights it may offer into Lynch’s labyrinthian mystery. And now, thanks to the Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery Blu-ray set, they are finally here. So how do they stack up? What do they tell us?...

Mathieu Amalric as George Devereux Benicio Del Toro as Jimmy P

I met up with Kent Jones during a snowy day, surrounded by New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, to talk about his work on Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian. The film stars Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Misty Upham, and Gina McKee. The winding paths of our conversation on post-war silences, psychoanalysis, western landscapes and eastern escapes led us from David Lynch's Straight Story to Clint Eastwood's Flags Of Our Fathers to Truffaut and Hitchcock, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Marlon Brando in The Men, across Red River to The Best Years of Our Lives and why the story of a returning World War II veteran has special meaning for him.

When I spoke with Kent in September 2013, he was embarking on his first year as Director of Programming and...

Whatever you do, don't think of Sienna Miller as the Factory Girl anymore. The actress steps out this weekend in "Just Like a Woman," Rachid Bouchareb's cross-cultural ode to female friendship. Miller plays Marilyn, a woman who's had enough of her no-good husband and teams up with Golshifteh Farahani's Mona, a North African immigrant running from her own dark secret. The two embark on a "Thelma and Louise"-style roadtrip to escape the law and their troubles, with a pivotal audition for a belly dancing troupe at the end of the journey.

Ahead of the film's July 5 release, Miller spoke with NextMovie on the phone to talk about belly dancing, her (somewhat) revised opinions on the city of Pittsburgh and her sordid (fake) affair with actor Sean Bean.

I saw the movie the other day and thought it was really different. What first drew you to it?

I got approached by Rachid Bouchareb,...

The Straight Story

Written by John Roach & Mary Sweeney

Directed by David Lynch

France/UK/USA, 1999

A film entitled The Straight Story seems like a lie in the bizarre hands of a director like David Lynch, famous for injecting art house storytelling and theater styling into his more mainstream fare. An adaptation of an Iowa farmer’s journey? From Mr. Twin Peaks? Alright, what’s the catch?

The Straight Story’s title is no trick. In fact, it’s about as real as stories get, adapted from the actual 1994 journey of Iowa farmer Alvin Straight. After a less than satisfactory visit to the doctor reminds him of his mortality, Alvin (Richard Farnsworth) decides to set things right. He begins by setting off to Mt Zion, Wisconsin to make amends with his estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton), who’s fallen deathly ill. There’s just a one problem: Alvin has no way of getting there.

Take Me Home is, in the simplest form, a road movie. It tells the story of two strangers who find themselves at less than desirable points in their life, and take off on a cross-country road trip from New York to California.

Sam Jaegar, best known for his role on the television show Parenthood, is the writer, director, and (along with his wife Amanda Jaeger) star of the film. I recently got the chance to have a conversation with him about how he came to make this project, the perils of wearing many hats, and the beauty of filming the United States.

William Bitterman: First of all, thank you for taking the time to sit down with me today. It’s pretty cool, I realize you be very busy.

Sam Jaeger: Oh no, it’s my pleasure.

WB: And I guess I’ll just go ahead and let you know,...

Katie Carman is an up and coming genre director based in the New York area. With her first feature, Eat Me!, she showed potential as she was able to achieve a consistency of tone within the narrative. What is noteworthy about this element in Eat Me!, was the fact that most new filmmakers fail to edit themselves and want to throw everything possible into a film creating a jarring, uneven experience. For her next film, Off Season, she is going the opposite direction mixing elements of psychological terror with the supernatural. Off Season is currently in pre-production, though the movie's filming date is fast approaching. If you would wish to contribute anything towards the film's budget, please visit:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/756836097/off-season-a-new-feature-film-from-cold-hands-prod-0. I had the chance to ask her a few questions about Eat Me!, Off Season and the future. Here is what she had to say.

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David Lynch has launched Interview Project, a "20,000 mile road trip over 70 days across and back the United States," in which Lynch and his team interview ordinary people. "It's something that's human and you can't stay away from it," Lynch says on the promo teaser currently up on the site. It's a simple idea, and from the teaser it seems very Straight Story, but I have to admit that the faces of the interviewees and the basic questions they pose to themselves will have me back at the site on June 1 when it formally launches. Click on the link above to see the trailer and to sign up for the Interview Project mailing list. And as long as he are talking about the director, here's some Lynchian frippery courtesy of Buzzfeed: their five...