Most celebrate “Twin Peaks,” his lasting contribution to TV, alongside his name’s installment in the lexicon of the moving image with the word Lynchian. But what does that mean, Lynchian? That ...

David Lynch has an indisputable impact on cinema, but what does it really mean for something to be "Lynchian"?

He was so iconoclastic that he created a new phrase in the cinematic dictionary, damn near a new philosophy of life: "Lynchian." Many have tried to decipher what that actually means; some have ...

Lynch expanded on the dark side of double lives and desire in a small town with the television show “Twin Peaks,” which premiered on ABC in 1990. Originally intended as a miniseries, the show’s ...

Lavish hair, nondescript clothes and a smoking habit were hallmarks of the filmmaker David Lynch’s visual persona. The filmmaker David Lynch at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. Mr. Lynch, who ...

Hollywood was struck with the shocking passing of filmmaker and visionary David Lynch earlier this month, who was only 78 ...

Laying bare American life's hidden horrors and absurdities, the auteur behind 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' held up a distorted but unsettlingly truthful mirror.

Pretty Lynchian. If the cops stand around at the crime scene, discussing varieties of peanut butters and confessing that the murderous husband kind of had a point — well, that’s just pure Lynch.

The filmmaker’s popularity struck at a formative time for a medium poised to smash narrative styles, influencing “Final Fantasy VII,” “Silent Hill 2,” “Alan Wake” and more.

Calling something Lynchian means recognizing what we’re seeing is off-kilter and that it doesn’t entirely compute. The music stops, the lights return to the usual sickly phosphorescence ...

Yet somehow, David Lynch, who passed away Thursday at the age of 78, not only directed a game-changing array of films that can only be defined as Lynchian. He did it a time when the American movie ...