Dennis Hopper would've celebrated his 83rd birthday on May 17, 2019. The Oscar-nominated performer experienced many ups-and-downs throughout his career, with his off-screen antics often overshadowing ...

A new documentary on Dennis Hopper, Nick Eberling’s “Along for the Ride,” starts Friday, Dec. 15, and the Roxie Theater is celebrating with a mini-retrospective of the iconic actor and director’s work ...

How about you? GROSS: That's Dennis Hopper in the film "Blue Velvet," which was directed by David Lynch, who described Hopper as sort of the perfect American dangerous hero. "Blue Velvet" was one of ...

Paul Giamatti’s turn as the walleyed loner schoolteacher who smells of fish in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers has propelled the actor to be squarely in the mix in the Best Actor Oscar race. This has ...

With Eraserhead, David Lynch proved himself a master of the waking nightmarescape. In The Elephant Man, he brought a sense of that surrealism to a biopic. Dune proved he wasn’t the guy to make a ...

Certain actors are described as chameleons, doing everything they can to disappear as fully into a role as possible. They dive into accents, costumes, makeup to attempt to become one with the ...

In 1985, a skinny, chain-smoking film director with a rakish pompadour and a Boy Scout’s cordial manner arrived in the swampy southeast corner of North Carolina, ready to make a movie that would set ...

When the news dropped Thursday that Oscar-nominated film director David Lynch had died at the age of 78, one very predictable thing was unleashed on social media: Memories of Lynch's time in ...

"Blue Velvet" remains a cult classic and somewhat controversial film from offbeat director David Lynch, and the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini, is correcting some of the negativity connected to it.

Director David Lynch’s Blue Velvet celebrates its 35th anniversary this month. And for those of you who haven’t seen it, this cult classic was a cinematic game-changer. At its heart, Blue Velvet was a ...

After three wildly different feature films—Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Dune—David Lynch had already carved a unique cinematic niche for himself. But 1986’s Blue Velvet fully established his ...

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.