There’s an echo here of Frank Booth’s line in Blue Velvet: “Now it’s dark.” Perhaps this is Lynch’s legacy: creating spaces for darkness to dwell only so that, miraculously, the light can ...

The News & Observer panned “Blue Velvet” as “horrible,” and its ... so it was really a new thing in town,” said Frank Turner Owens, in town at the time. “We had a friend in casting ...

His credits included “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive ... and “The Elephant Man,” plus the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic “Dune.” He was also credited ...