This contrast between the grotesque and the ordinary, often flipping perceptions of the two on their head, is key to his art style. Consider, for example, the “strange and unusual” Lydia Deetz ...

Though he is a charming kid, Calvin is a horrible student in the Calvin and Hobbes strip, which is why his in-school ...

It sounds grotesque, like something from a macabre fairytale ... by lies and sustained through the theft of other peoples’ art, culture and history. It is true that conquest and cultural ...

Laying bare American life's hidden horrors and absurdities, the auteur behind 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' held up a distorted but unsettlingly truthful mirror.

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] crucified a little boy wearing nothing but his underwear.” It sounds ...

Explore David Lynch's surreal short films on the Criterion Channel, uncovering his intense, boundary-pushing vision.

It was as if Lynch had tapped into something that people had wanted to see all along — something bizarre and grotesque beneath ... David Lynch: The Art Life, offers a rare glimpse into his ...

In his films Lynch inserted the macabre and disturbing into the ordinary and mundane ... detail that thrusts a scene into shocking relief and his taste in risky, often grotesque material has made him, ...

In his films Lynch inserted the macabre and disturbing into the ordinary ... scene into shocking relief and his taste in risky, often grotesque material has made him, perhaps, Hollywood’s ...