David Lynch, the peerless director behind such masterpieces as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, was one of cinema’s all-time greats, a unique visionary whose dark and surreal films were the stuff of both unsettling dreams and sumptuous nightmares.

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday. — “He’s one of those filmmakers who was influential but impossible to imitate.

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, and Kyle MacLachlan are among the prominent figures paying tribute to David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday. “I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive,

Questlove, Ron Howard and Steven Soderbergh are among those mourning the death of movie director David Lynch Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks ...

David Lynch, the peerless director behind ... new interview with The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh pays tribute to the late auteur as a true one-of-a-kind ...

Steven Soderbergh, Questlove, Ron Howard and More Pay Tribute to David Lynch Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive ...

How do you define a cult classic? Is it a shoestring exploitation film from the world of Ed Wood? Off-beat movies made outside the traditional Hollywood studio system? Does the film in question even have to be good?

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Many of Lynch’s movies travel from a familiar outside world into a strange inner one. The structure of “Room to Dream,” which alternates between third-person accounts of Lynch’s life written by Kristine McKenna,

Perhaps no other games have pulled off the tone of David Lynch’s work quite as successfully as the first three entries in the Silent Hill series. On the surface, of course, there’s the soundtrack: industrial clangs and whirrs,

As with the first two highly acclaimed Paddington films, Paddington in Peru has been garnering praises from audiences and film critics for its unique story, animation, and humor. Paddington in Peru sees the iconic bear in a brand new adventure as he tries to get back to his roots