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.

The filmmaker, a spellbinder with some genuine masterworks to his credit, leaves behind more than mere flourishes. And as he once said about himself, you don’t have to be dark to show

My relationship with David Lynch began as a ten-year-old boy wandering the aisles of a video store. While browsing the shelves for monster movies, a DVD box caught my eye and reeled me in: a cloaked figure with a stitched bag on his head.