David Lynch – a life in pictures

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78

Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

Published: 16 Jan 2025

David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

Peter Bradshaw

From disturbing debut Eraserhead to his masterpiece Mulholland Drive, Lynch’s dark tales combined radical experiment with everyday Americana

Published: 16 Jan 2025

Hollywood pays tribute to David Lynch: ‘A singular, visionary dreamer’

Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, Ron Howard and others share their respects for film-maker who died this week at 78

Published: 16 Jan 2025

Mulholland Drive at 20: David Lynch’s audacious puzzle remains a mystery

The daring film-maker’s 2001 Hollywood-set thriller is as dazzling, and unknowably ambiguous, as ever

Published: 12 Oct 2021