Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.The actress recalled this week that the University of California, Los Angeles, refused to grant her a leave of absence to ...

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.

David Lynch answered the call with Blue Velvet. Lynch was an unlikely saviour. He'd made his breakthrough in 1977 with Eraserhead , a deeply disturbing, surreal nightmare of a movie.

Isabella Rossellini, left, plays a masochistic nightclub singer in ‘Blue Velvet,’ directed by David Lynch, right. The 1986 movie was filmed in North Carolina.