David Lynch was a painter long before he became a ... Lynch played a radio operator wearing goggles and a rubber trench coat, and he wasn’t half bad. “Hitchcock was in all his films—I ...

The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.

In his seminal article on Lynch, written around the production of Lost Highway (1997), the late David Foster Wallace wrote that the term “Lynchian” might be academically defined as “a ...