Since 2012 I’ve written about all manner of topics at Open Culture, and you can find a selection of some of my favorite posts over the years in the Open Culture section of my essays page. I often write there about filmmakers, and few filmmakers as often as David Lynch. Here are all my posts on the auteur of Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, and much else besides:
- Angelo Badalamenti Reveals How He and David Lynch Composed the Twin Peaks‘ “Love Theme”
- An Animated David Lynch Explains Where He Gets His Ideas
- The Cowboy and the Frenchman: French Culture Through the American Eyes of David Lynch (1988)
- David Foster Wallace Explains How David Lynch’s Blue Velvet Taught Him the True Meaning of Avant Garde Art
- David Lynch and Moby Talk Blues Guitar, Meditation, Quinoa & the Joy of Los Angeles
- David Lynch Creates Daily Weather Reports for Los Angeles: How the Filmmaker Passes Time in Quarantine
- David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials
- David Lynch Draws a Map of Twin Peaks (to Help Pitch the Show to ABC)
- David Lynch Explains How Meditation Boosts Our Creativity (Plus Free Resources to Help You Start Meditating)
- David Lynch Lists His Favorite Films & Directors, Including Fellini, Wilder, Tati & Hitchcock
- David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987)
- David Lynch Presents the Interview Project: 121 Mini-Documentaries About Life in America
- David Lynch Takes Aspiring Filmmakers Inside the Art & Craft of Making Indie Films
- David Lynch Talks About His 99 Favorite Photographs at Paris Photo 2012
- David Lynch Turns Twin Peaks into a Virtual Reality Game: Watch the Official Trailer
- Discover David Lynch’s Bizarre & Minimalist Comic Strip, The Angriest Dog in the World (1983-1992)
- Eraserhead Stories: David Lynch on the Making of His Famously Nightmarish Movie
- Experimental Post-Punk Band Xiu Xiu Plays the Music from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks
- Hear 20 Minutes of Mark Frost’s New Secret History of Twin Peaks, the Book Fans Have Waited 25 Years to Read
- How David Lynch Got Creative Inspiration? By Drinking a Milkshake at Bob’s Big Boy, Every Single Day, for Seven Straight Years
- The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Revisit 1980s Documentaries on David Lynch, John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky & Other Filmmakers
- Japanese Movie Posters of 10 David Lynch Films
- The Late Alan Thicke Hosts a Twin Peaks Behind-the-Scenes Special (1990)
- One Second from Each Episode of Twin Peaks: Experience David Lynch’s Groundbreaking TV Drama in Less than a Minute
- See What David Lynch Can Do With a 100-Year-Old Camera and 52 Seconds of Film
- The Surreal Filmmaking of David Lynch Explained in 9 Video Essays
- Twin Peaks Essentials to Get You Ready for the Debut of Season 3: A 55-Minute Refresher, Maps, Commercials & Behind-the-Scenes Footage & More
- Watch John Malkovich Portray David Lynch and Lynch’s Famous Characters from Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More
- What Makes a David Lynch Film Lynchian: A Video Essay