American filmmaker David Lynch, a master of surrealist cinema, best known for Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, has passed away. He was 78. As per reports, David Lynch

After starting her career in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Watts scored her breakout role in Lynch’s 2001 mystery thriller Mulholland Drive. She portrayed lookalikes Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn, the former of which worked to help a woman with amnesia named Rita (played by Laura Harring) unravel the truth of her identity.

David Lynch 's masterpiece Mulholland Drive is available to stream for free for UK fans. It comes amid the sad news that the legendary director has died aged 78, with his family confirming his passing in a statement yesterday (January 16).

Watts has repeatedly credited her success as a screen star to Lynch in the past. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of her breakout movie Mulholland Drive in 2021, she wrote, “This film changed my career. David Lynch changed my life. I'm forever grateful.”

Lynch was a onetime artist who broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and peers in the following decades.

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David Lynch, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks, has died at the age of 78...

Isabella Rossellini has paid tribute to her former partner and collaborator David Lynch, saying she “loved him so much”. The death of the US filmmaker, whose work included surrealist TV series Twin Peaks and films such as The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet, at the age of 78 was announced on Thursday.

Mulholland Drive star Watts said Lynch "put me on the map" with her 2001 break-out film about the dark side of Hollywood, which earned him the award for Best Director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival alongside an Oscar nod. "My heart is broken. My Buddy Dave… The world will not be the same without him," Watts wrote on Instagram.

Lynch was considered a master of surrealism and one of the most innovative filmmakers of his generation David Lynch - the singular and surreal director of Mulholland Drive and television's Twin Peaks,

Naomi Wats says her “heart is broken” following the death of her Mulholland Drive director David Lynch. After the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s family announced Thursday that Lynch died at the age of 78,