David Lynch, the director of "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" who died this week, ... The auditorium was packed, and to say that the movie lived up to that poster would be an understatement.

Blue Velvet movie poster (Alamy/PA) Major success came in the 1980s with the release of The Elephant Man, loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man who lived in London ...

David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78. With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man ...

Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.The actress recalled this week that the University of California, Los Angeles, refused to grant her a leave of absence to ...

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.

Isabella Rossellini, left, plays a masochistic nightclub singer in ‘Blue Velvet,’ directed by David Lynch, right. The 1986 movie was filmed in North Carolina.

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

Blue Velvet movie poster (Alamy/PA) Major success came in the 1980s with the release of The Elephant Man, loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick, ...