The recent passing of director David Lynch has caused many to look back on his films, myself included. Watching “Blue Velvet” (1986), one of Lynch’s most acclaimed films, the first thing I noticed was ...

"Blue Velvet" remains a cult classic and somewhat controversial film from offbeat director David Lynch, and the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini, is correcting some of the negativity connected to it.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

When the news dropped Thursday that Oscar-nominated film director David Lynch had died at the age of 78, one very predictable thing was unleashed on social media: Memories of Lynch's time in ...

In 1985, a skinny, chain-smoking film director with a rakish pompadour and a Boy Scout’s cordial manner arrived in the swampy southeast corner of North Carolina, ready to make a movie that would set ...

Laura Dern appeared on a recent episode of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast (via People) and remembered being forced to drop out of UCLA film school after she ...

At the start of her film career, Laura Dern took a big risk, quitting college to star in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The Big Little Lies star recalled she learned she had landed the role of Sandy ...

The actress left UCLA after just two days to star in the 1986 David Lynch thriller Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand ...

Dern said her professors did not allow her to take a leave of absence to film David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet.' By Zoe G. Phillips Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.

LOS ANGELES — David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just days ...

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