David Lynch has a knack for creating surrealist art. Many of his other projects, like “Mulholland Drive” and “Blue Velvet,” ...

Lynch expanded on the dark side of double lives and desire in a small town with the television show “Twin Peaks,” which premiered on ABC in 1990. Originally intended as a miniseries, the show’s ...

Director David Lynch attends the Twin Peaks screening during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival. (Image has been converted to black and white.) (Photo by Amy T. Zielinski/Getty Images ...

There’s a scene in the Twin Peaks pilot that starts with the normal, humdrum, boring rhythms of everyday life. We’re in a high school, where a schoolgirl sneaks a smoke, a boy is called to the ...

There’s a scene in the Twin Peaks pilot that starts with the normal, humdrum, boring rhythms of everyday life. We’re in a high school, where a schoolgirl sneaks a smoke, a boy is called to the ...

Calling something Lynchian means recognizing what we’re seeing is off-kilter and that it doesn’t entirely compute.

He expanded the cinematic potential of television and inspired a generation of showrunners, including “Sopranos” creator ...

Lynch switched to the small screen in 1990 when he created the mystery crime series “Twin Peaks” with Mark Frost ... began as a TV pilot but was dropped by the network and eventually made ...

In 1990, Lynch debuted both the Palme d’Or-winning “Wild at Heart,” with Nicolas Cage and Dern, and the radical TV series “Twin Peaks.” The show ... was assembled out of a failed TV pilot. But that ...

At the same time Twin Peaks was on the air in 1990, his trippy road movie Wild ... ABC asked him to produce a new pilot for them in the same vein as Twin Peaks, with a mystery series set in ...