out-of-control villain, “Blue Velvet” polarized critics, but it cemented Lynch’s reputation as a fearless and daring film author. The film was the start of his collaboration with composer ...

The problem with Blue Velvet is David Lynch or ... and in Leland Palmer possesses a villain more threatening than Frank since he hides his own corruption, rather than glorying in it.

Hopper’s villain, Frank Booth, a man driven to paroxysms of sexually ... awed when he leaped back with the film many consider his masterpiece, or at least Blue Velvet‘s equal: Mulholland Drive.

Lynch, who was born in Montana in 1946, was a writer, director and painter who studied at the American Film Institute. He ...