Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If we can boil down Lynch’s take on crime and mystery fiction to its most basic, it’s this: a seemingly normal, often All-American ...

Certain actors are described as chameleons, doing everything they can to disappear as fully into a role as possible. They dive into accents, costumes, makeup to attempt to become one with the ...

How about you? GROSS: That's Dennis Hopper in the film "Blue Velvet," which was directed by David Lynch, who described Hopper as sort of the perfect American dangerous hero. "Blue Velvet" was one of ...

Paul Giamatti’s turn as the walleyed loner schoolteacher who smells of fish in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers has propelled the actor to be squarely in the mix in the Best Actor Oscar race. This has ...

Before Dennis Hopper was Frank, the PBR-swilling heavy in Blue Velvet, even before he embarked on Easy Rider, a project that defined an entire generation, he was a prolific photographer. In fact, he ...

After three wildly different feature films—Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Dune—David Lynch had already carved a unique cinematic niche for himself. But 1986’s Blue Velvet fully established his ...