“Blue Velvet,” the movie that I still think is ... face like a microphone and lip syncs to Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams.” The lyrics go, “In dreams, I walk with you/In dreams, I talk ...

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive ... that emerged from a landscape of dreams or nightmares, their happy endings doing nothing to erase ...

There are certain artists who are so visionary, so daring in their originality, whose work casts such a primal and enduring spell that it literally becomes hard to imagine the world without them.