1985 “That’s the ticket” Uttered by Jon Lovitz’s pathological liar character, Tommy Flanagan, when he’d hit upon a particularly egregious whopper, this line was also Lovitz’s...
The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll select three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent...
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works Seong-Jin Cho, piano (Deutsche Grammophon) Seong-Jin Cho’s 2017 Debussy recording was full of bold colors and sharply delineated textures, which...
Feb. 14, 1981 Funky 4 + 1 Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first...
Since the death of the filmmaker David Lynch last week, fans have been driving to Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, Calif., to pay their respects, building...
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. Roy Orbison: “In Dreams” The most unforgettable musical scene in “Blue Velvet,” though, starts with a song...
The directorial thumbprint of David Lynch spawned its own adjective decades ago, perhaps most thoroughly codified by the writer David Foster Wallace. Sent by Premiere magazine...
A conjurer of cinematic dreamscapes that bordered on nightmare, a creator of images that burned themselves onto the back of one’s eyelids, the director (and actor,...
The death of the surrealist film and television director David Lynch on Thursday prompted mourning across the entertainment world, with celebrities and artists paying tribute to...
It felt fitting that my city was burning when I heard the news Thursday that David Lynch had died at 78. Few filmmakers grasped the complexities...
