His take on the heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick made his career – but is the late director’s least typical film also ...

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.