With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' ...

Working daily as part of what he called his "art life," Lynch summoned forces that he would translate to the silver screen.

Lynch, who was born in Montana in 1946, was a writer, director and painter who studied at the American Film Institute. He first broke into the movie scene in 1977 when he turned his thesis project ...

Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.

Anyone searching to explain Lynch’s work through ... even awed when he leaped back with the film many consider his masterpiece, or at least Blue Velvet‘s equal: Mulholland Drive.