The famously weird filmmaker set his 1986 movie in Lumberton, with many modifications, and filmed in Wilmington during its ...

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

Released on September 19, 1986, the film starred Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, and Hope Lange in prominent roles. The plot of Blue Velvet follows a young man ...

At the time of its release, Blue Velvet was regarded as a provocative and controversial film, mainly due to its explicit depictions of violence and s*xual assault. One of the key scenes that ...

Despite that, "Dune" producer Dino De Laurentiis, who had recently built Wilmington's first film studio, agreed to bankroll "Blue Velvet" under the auspices of his De Laurentiis Entertainment ...

Soon, headlines across the state screamed in outrage over David Lynch and “Blue Velvet,” the movie he filmed mostly in Wilmington but partially in its Robeson County namesake, which is dressed ...

It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way ... He created his first short film, Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times), on a budget of $200 and released it 1967 ...

Lynch's films often explored “the mystery and madness hidden in the normal," as film critic Pauline Kael put it. The severed ...

Lynch, who was born in Montana in 1946, was a writer, director and painter who studied at the American Film Institute. He first broke into the movie scene in 1977 when he turned his thesis project ...

She eats the props.” The filmmaker invited us to open our minds to the impossible, with movies such as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” that defined an American surrealism.