I’ll never forget going to see David Lynch’s Blue Velvet at the Nickelodeon in Boston in the Fall of 1986. I had just started my senior of high school and my interest in movies was just beginning to snowball into a borderline-unhealthy obsession.

A primer for David Lynch’s best movies and TV shows, from “Twin Peaks” to “Blue Velvet,” to be enjoyed in a dark room with a big cup of black coffee.

It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” a statement onLynch’s Facebook page said. “There’s a big hole

Lynch co-wrote and produced some of the music for his films, but he also had an impeccable sense of how to use well-known songs in his movies. He was a master manipulator constantly deploying major hits into unexpected corners of his films,

Steven Spielberg knew what he was doing when he cast David Lynch as John Ford in The Fabelmans; already, in 2022, the director had become, like Ford, bigger than his movies, a living monument to cinema.

David Lynch, the legendary American director behind films like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the television series Twin Peaks, passed away on January 15. His family announced the news in a Facebook post the following day: “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us.