We were talking about ideas,” the Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet star says. “It was like, ‘What’s next?’ And then, suddenly—poof—he’s gone.”

Just 15 days into the new year, the world woke up to some devastating news—David Lynch, a mastermind of horror movies, had lost the battle to emphysema. The good news is that he left us a long list of films; here are his best. But First…

The world of cinema mourns the loss of David Lynch, who passed away at 78. Known for masterpieces like Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, Lynch redefined storytelling with his surreal and enigmatic narratives.

Lynch’s work is unique and influential enough to have spawned the adjective “Lynchian”, which, like the man himself, is at once both easy to recognise and hard to define. It involved a unique storytelling approach,