After the war, when the legendary actor served as a combat pilot, Stewart's films began to reflect the ... While American ...

A murder mystery that cares as much about exploring the losses each character is actively experiencing as it does about world ...

Over the last four decades, the director redefined American cinema by making some of the most heart-wrenching, terrifying, ...

It is true that David Lynch was a dark master, capable of depicting on-screen violence with more edge than most — but what is ...

The Beacon is celebrating David Lynch’s work with David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange through February 9.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the shows The Agency ...

There’s a scene in the Twin Peaks pilot that starts with the normal ... The setting is a Norman Rockwell painting, full of white picket fences and girls-next-door, but Kyle MacLachlan’s ...

In the opening scenes of “Blue Velvet,” among suburban homes and picket fences, an investigator finds a severed ... was assembled out of a failed TV pilot. But that restructuring only enhanced the ...

David Thomson once said “Blue Velvet” was “Beowulf at the International House of Pancakes,” a portrait of picket-fence Americana ... by the time he directed the pilot of “Twin Peaks ...

Blue Velvet was a thriller drama about the secrets people keep behind the white-picket fences. (Among other things ... ABC asked him to produce a new pilot for them in the same vein as Twin ...

He directed "Blue Velvet," "Twin Peaks," "Mulholland Drive," and so many other films that have lodged themselves into the popular imagination and shaped other filmmakers.