David Lynch, the peerless director behind such masterpieces as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, was one of cinema’s all-time greats, a unique visionary whose dark and surreal films were the stuff of both unsettling dreams and sumptuous nightmares.

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday. — “He’s one of those filmmakers who was influential but impossible to imitate.

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, and Kyle MacLachlan are among the prominent figures paying tribute to David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday. “I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive,

The American filmmaker who was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in movies such as Blue Velvet has died just days before his 79th birthday.

The cause of death and location was not immediately available, but Lynch had been public about the effect emphysema had had on his life.

Soderbergh shares his memories of trying to work with the legendary director and why he was inimitable. “The people who tried to appropriate his algorithm, that just didn’t work ...

Questlove, Ron Howard and Steven Soderbergh are among those mourning the death of movie director David Lynch Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks ...

Lynch broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences, peers and critics in the following decades.

Steven Soderbergh, Questlove, Ron Howard and More Pay Tribute to David Lynch Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive ...

I saw a good movie the other night, guided by a tight, 85-minute narrative and a gratifying seriousness underneath its supernatural premise. The film is “Presence,” made for a couple of million dollars,

Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” requires some initial audience disorientation. Mistake? If so, why do we miss David Lynch so much?