David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan. Credit ... he created in the film an aesthetic – an elegantly twisted take on American noir – which he’d expand and explore over his subsequent peak period.

Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” requires some initial audience disorientation. Mistake? If so, why do we miss David Lynch so ...

The filmmaker, a spellbinder with some genuine masterworks to his credit, leaves behind more than mere flourishes. And as he once said about himself, you don’t have to be dark to show ...

Blue Velvet has a unique and interesting visual aesthetic in its portrayal of violence and desire. Exploring the duality of human nature, the plot follows Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a ...

In a career that spanned more than four decades, the director – who was also a musician, a visual artist, and an actor – established such a signature aesthetic that Lynchian ... played by Kyle ...

"Dune" was also notable in that it starred Kyle MacLachlan in his feature film debut, who then appeared in Lynch's next feature, the 1986 neo-noir thriller "Blue Velvet," opposite Isabella ...

Lynch somehow made his aesthetic palatable without diluting it ... the great embodiments of America’s madonna/noir complex), Kyle MacLachlan as the teen hero isn’t squeaky clean either.

With “Blue Velvet,” that aesthetic would pervade much of Lynch ... Instead of relying on nostalgia, he delivered Kyle MacLachlan’s Dale Cooper as a barely sentient simpleton, among many ...