One legendary use of music in David Lynch’s filmography has to be the inclusion of the song “In Heaven” in Eraserhead, 1977. The film was Lynch’s debut feature and is still a deeply loved and revered ...

Andrew McGowan studied at Bowdoin College and the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Hs has served on programming and judicial teams for several film festivals, and has written about cinema ...

One of the greatest American artists of all time has died. David Lynch was the effortless creative and visionary director of provocative films like Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986), the beloved ...

I have never been so wrong in my entire life. Wikipedia bills David Lynch’s 1977 debut, “Eraserhead,” as a “surrealist body horror film.” This alone should have alerted me to the film’s eccentricities ...

In this Slate Plus episode for One Year, Slate’s Sam Adams and Karen Han discuss outstanding films from 1977, including Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Eraserhead, House, Suspiria, and ...