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

David Lynch, the peerless director behind such masterpieces as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, was one of cinema’s all-time greats, a unique visionary whose dark and surreal films were the stuff of both unsettling dreams and sumptuous nightmares.

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday. — “He’s one of those filmmakers who was influential but impossible to imitate.

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.

David Lynch's unrelenting 1992 horror film, a prequel to his "Twin Peaks" series, aimed to kill "Twin Peaks," which had been a television sensation just two years earlier. "Fire Walk With Me" famously starts off with a shot of static on a television set,

Soderbergh shares his memories of trying to work with the legendary director and why he was inimitable. “The people who tried to appropriate his algorithm, that just didn’t work ...

Steven Soderbergh, Questlove, Ron Howard and More Pay Tribute to David Lynch Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive ...

Director Steven ... Soderbergh, in an interview with The Associated Press. Recommended Videos — “I am astounded and heartbroken I can’t express with any words the profound loss of the great ...

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker ... they were clearly highly organized in his mind.” — Director Steven Soderbergh, in an interview with The Associated Press.

Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, and Kyle MacLachlan are among the prominent figures paying tribute to David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday. “I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive,

I saw a good movie the other night, guided by a tight, 85-minute narrative and a gratifying seriousness underneath its supernatural premise. The film is “Presence,” made for a couple of million dollars,