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. It was a cult ...

The movie was panned by critics when it opened in 1984 and seemed likely to bring a sudden end to Lynch’s meteoric rise, only for him to be redeemed by his fourth feature, Blue Velvet.

David Lynch, the groundbreaking director of films and shows including "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," has died at ... He first broke into the movie scene in 1977 when he turned his thesis project ...