David Lynch, an influential director known for his unique and surrealistic films and TV shows including “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.

The Oscar-nominated director, who died at 78, left no genre unturned, digging into everything from sci-fi and neo-noir to period biopics, and our culture is way more interesting for it. "Ideas that come along are like gifts,

David Lynch—the visionary director of Twin Peaks and films such as Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and Inland Empire —has died. His family announced the filmmaker’s death in