Lynch’s 1980 film The Elephant Man, based on the real-life story of Joseph Merrick, is unusual in his career for many reasons. It is a period drama based on a true story, set in Victorian ...

In our hyper-rational, technology-mediated 21st century, Lynch’s cinema perforates this tyranny of a totalitarian vision and ...

Lynch found his first taste of mainstream critical acceptance with his 1980 biographical account of the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. The film, which starred John Hurt and Anthony ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The death of American filmmaker David Lynch, who was also a painter, musician, sound designer, actor, singer and photographer ...

Lynch found his first taste of mainstream critical acceptance with his 1980 biographical account of the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. The film, which starred John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins, ...

It could be the shocking sight of Joseph Merrick’s gnarled and twisted black-and-white silhouette behind a translucent screen in 1980’s The Elephant Man ... lam lounging in bed as if they’d just had ...

"Eraserhead" attracted the attention of producer Mel Brooks, who brought Lynch aboard to direct "The Elephant Man," an adaptation of the life and times of the severely deformed Joseph Merrick ...

It could be the shocking sight of Joseph Merrick’s gnarled and twisted black-and-white silhouette behind a translucent screen in 1980’s The Elephant Man—a ... lounging in bed as if they ...

Societal outcasts have long fascinated Lynch, and The Elephant Man became his greatest commentary on those who exist on the fringes. Based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man ...

Eraserhead’s impact led to an offer from Mel Brooks’ production company to direct The Elephant Man; starring John Hurt in a biopic of Joseph Merrick, the film about the disfigured 19th-century ...