His sinister, surreal vision of America made him a leading counterculture auteur — with movies such as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks.

When I was in my early 30s, I had some minor surgery and was laid up for a long weekend. Knowing this was scheduled, I had gone to the neighborhood

David Lynch, who died Thursday, combined Eisenhower-era innocence & experimental cinema to forge a disturbing, darkly hilarious look at American life

David Lynch died at the age of 78, his family announced on Thursday, January 16. It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time.

David Lynch has died at the age of 78, his family announced on Thursday, Jan. 16. "It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time,

David Lynch, the creator of the television series "Twin Peaks" and the director of "Dune," passed away at the age of 78.

David Lynch, the prolific artist and filmmaker who created the television show “Twin Peaks,” died Thursday, four days before his 79th birthday. His early childhood in the Inland Northwest left a lasting impression on his psyche.

David Lynch, the artist, filmmaker, and musician who mined the strange and the surreal over four decades, has died.

Lynch was far more revered in Europe than in America, but he was a particularly American artist. Like one of his idols, Elvis Presley, Lynch was one those unique cultural figures who embodied both the optimism and nightmare of the American dream.

Twin Peaks creator David Lynch has died at the age of 78. "It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch ," his family shared on Facebook, asking for "privacy at this time".

David Lynch, who made films and television shows unlike anyone else, has died at 78, his family said in a statement Thursday.

Both hailed and reviled, Blue Velvet was rejected by the Venice film festival. Lynch’s scarcely less controversial follow-up, Wild at Heart, starring Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage as a young couple on the run in the American southwest, won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes film festival.