David Lynch, the peerless director behind such masterpieces as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, was one of cinema’s all-time greats, a unique visionary whose dark and surreal films were the stuff of both unsettling dreams and sumptuous nightmares.

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday.

Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, and Kyle MacLachlan are among the prominent figures paying tribute to David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday. “I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive,

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh takes us there in “ Presence ,” a ghost story filmed entirely in a New Jersey home. Unlike most films in the genre, the movie, in theaters Friday (Jan. 24), is told solely from the point of view of the ghost.

The American filmmaker who was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in movies such as Blue Velvet has died just days before his 79th birthday.

The onetime painter broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and critics in the decades after.

David Lynch, the celebrated filmmaker known for his surreal and hauntingly dreamlike works, passed away just days before his 79th birthday. His family announced

Music journalist Poppy Reid explores the sonic legacy of the man perhaps better known for his screen successes.

On Thursday, it was announced filmmaker and artist David Lynch had died. And like the cosmic cataclysm he created in Twin Peaks: The Return, his death, just prior to his 79th birthday, sent a pulse

The cause of death and location was not immediately available, but Lynch had been public about the effect emphysema had had on his life.

Lynch broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences, peers and critics in the following decades.