The famously weird filmmaker set his 1986 movie in Lumberton, with many modifications, and filmed in Wilmington during its film infancy.

David Lynch answered the call with Blue Velvet. Lynch was an unlikely saviour. He'd made his breakthrough in 1977 with Eraserhead, a deeply disturbing, surreal nightmare of a movie. It was a cult ...

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.

The movie was panned by critics when it opened in 1984 and seemed likely to bring a sudden end to Lynch’s meteoric rise, only for him to be redeemed by his fourth feature, Blue Velvet.

“Blue Velvet,” the movie that I still think is Lynch’s greatest masterpiece, followed “Dune” by emerging directly out of the unsettling depths of his imagination. It’s almost ...

He was a onetime artist who broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and peers in the following decades.

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It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way ... but becoming an underground midnight movie favoriite. One fan was producer Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with ...

David Lynch, the groundbreaking director of films and shows including "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," has died at ... He first broke into the movie scene in 1977 when he turned his thesis project ...