My experience in the Transcendental Meditation Movement in the 1980s soured me on the practice - but a tense conversation with the famed director and artist eventually brought enlightenment

Elmes tells IndieWire about "haunting dark corners" with the late filmmaker on "Eraserhead" and the great feedback Lynch gave him at the "Blue Velvet" DGA premiere.

With the city still reeling from the destruction and loss from the wildfires, local Lynch devotees paid homage to the writer-director with coffee and milkshakes at his favorite Burbank diner.

Much like dreams, merely hearing Lynch's work described does not compare to experiencing his movies and TV series firsthand. Unconventional to the end, the director's filmography (plus Twin Peaks, indispensable to his oeuvre) almost always elicits strong responses, with each project re-assembling a number of core ideas, themes, and images.

David Lynch admitted in the years leading up to his death that his least favorite project was his third feature film, calling it a 'total failure' in his eyes. The director's family announced his death at age 78 on Jan.

David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominee behind ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘The Elephant Man’ who also created TV's ‘Twin Peaks,’ has died at 78.

With the announcement that the great David Lynch died on January 16, the world hasn’t just lost one of its greatest filmmakers: It’s lost one of its greatest artists, period. The work of a filmmaker whose sensibility was certainly not for the masses,

But what does that mean, Lynchian? That "Severance" scene described above demonstrates it. The Severed Floor's usually staid supervisor, Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman), behaves in a way viewers haven't seen before.

Even after he’d established himself as a brilliant filmmaker and left his hometown far behind, David Lynch described himself as “Eagle Scout, Missoula, Montana.”