David Lynch was a visionary director of the strange and the surreal – but what we hear in his films is as important as what we see.

I cracked open the door and an even lower sound rolled in like heat before refining into a horrifying whistle. Downstairs, my husband was watching “Eraserhead,” Lynch’s first full-length ...

Music played a huge role in defining the filmmaker’s distinctive atmosphere on the big and small screens. Hear 13 examples.

Last summer, Lynch had revealed to Sight and Sound that he was diagnosed with emphysema ... “I like things that leave some room to dream,” he told the New York Times in 1995.

There is a bowel-deep grumble that rolls over the frames of David Lynch’s films. The drone is an unsettling but crucial companion to his scenes, one that roils beneath a frightening encounter in ...

Throughout all of his work, perhaps most memorably in the warped noir of his television series Twin Peaks, Lynch steered composers to create music as inexplicably haunting as his moving pictures.

David Lynch left an indelible mark in the film world, but a major part of what shaped his particular style of avant genius was his deep connection to music. Sound was integral to his lush ...

In an interview with Sight & Sound magazine last year, Lynch revealed that due to Covid fears and his emphysema diagnosis, he no longer could leave the house, which meant if he directed again ...