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.

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,

Director Steven Soderbergh, in an interview with The Associated Press. — ''I am astounded and heartbroken I can't express with any words the profound loss of the great David Lynch my friend.''

director Steven Soderbergh, in an interview with The Associated Press. — “Truly saddened to hear of the passing of David Lynch. Working with him was like a dream out of one of his movies ...

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,

How do you define a cult classic? Is it a shoestring exploitation film from the world of Ed Wood? Off-beat movies made outside the traditional Hollywood studio system? Does the film in question even have to be good?

Jim Tauber, the president of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment for a decade until his retirement in 2015, has died from multiple myeloma. He was 74.

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh takes us there in “ Presence ,” a ghost story filmed entirely in a New Jersey home. Unlike most films in the genre, the movie, in theaters Friday (Jan. 24), is told solely from the point of view of the ghost.

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

David J. Lynch joined The Washington Post in November 2017 from the Financial Times, where he covered white-collar crime. He was previously the cybersecurity editor at Politico and a senior writer ...

This interview was originally published June 25, 2018. We’re rerunning it following David Lynch’s death at 78. What he did, as is often the case, is unusual. Room to Dream alternates reported ...