Lynch’s 1980 film The Elephant Man, based on the real-life story of Joseph Merrick, is unusual in his career for many reasons. It is a period drama based on a true story, set in Victorian ...

The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful dreamscapes skewered the hypocrisy of the American dream has passed away at ...

In honour of his peerless contribution, here are Lynch’s six essential works: ...

Lynch found his first taste of mainstream critical acceptance with his 1980 biographical account of the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. The film, which starred John Hurt and Anthony ...

Based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century, The Elephant Man starred Anthony Hopkins as Dr Frederick Treves, a well-meaning surgeon ...

I’ll never forget going to see David Lynch’s Blue Velvet at the Nickelodeon in Boston in the Fall of 1986. I had just started my senior of high school and my interest in movies was just beginning to ...

I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man,” John Hurt screams late in The Elephant Man while being chased by a mob.

The filmmaker behind Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr., and Blue Velvet, who died at 78, made the strange seem normal and the normal ...