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It’s now been just over two months since we lost one of the great artists of our time. In the weeks following David Lynch’s shocking death, many have found solace in revisiting his works, with theaters holding repertory screenings and his collaborators sharing words of remembrance. After many rumors, we now have confirmation from one of his most trusted friends that the 78-year-old filmmaker was preparing to embark on a new project.

Speaking to the LA Times, Naomi Watts recalled visiting the director in November, just a few months prior to his death. “We had a beautiful lunch at his house,” she said, noting of her visit with Laura Dern. “I knew he’d been unwell but he was in great spirits. He wanted to go back to work — Laura and I were like, ‘You can do it! You could work from the trailer.’ He was not, in any way,...

Deep in the morass of unmade David Lynch films––among the better-known likes Ronnie Rocket, One Saliva Bubble, Antelope Don’t Run No More, and Dune Messiah––is Snootworld, an animated, family-friendly project his ex-wife Peggy Reavey once claimed would be “David’s Harry Potter.” Some two decades since he began writing a script with Caroline Thompson and fifteen-or-so years since the last bit of speculation, Lynch has––in a somewhat uncharacteristic move––announced his hopes to find financing in an interview with Deadline.

This after, Lynch tells us, Netflix rejected a pitch for the feature, which Thompson revealed is the story of Snoots, “tiny creatures who have a ritual transition at aged eight at which time they get tinier and they’re sent away for a year so they are protected.” In yet another of his riffs on Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, chaos ensues “when...

Jon Nguyen on first meeting David Lynch: "In Poland, when he was making Inland Empire." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Connecting a Mr Smith in Boise, Idaho, to Winkie's diner, splitting Naomi Watts in two, a Bob Dylan memory turned into Jeanne Bates and Dan Birnbaum coming out of a bag, and The Cowboy Monty Montgomery in Mulholland Drive, the air in Eraserhead, a Blue Velvet moment, the lines of Lost Highway, David Lynch's daughters Lula (Laura Dern's name in Wild At Heart) and Jennifer (voice in The Alphabet, starring Peggy Lynch) as bookends, cinematographer Jason S on call to film Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch - The Art Life - all this and more came into my conversation with one of the directors.

On Mr. Smith: "I think the only person that knows is David. Just as he's the only one who...

Jennifer Lynch Daughter of director David Lynch and painter Peggy Lynch created one of the most truly disturbing films ever made when she did Surveillance. If you love a good thriller and can stomach a bit of over the top violence then its a movie you must see. For me Surveillance  is to this generation what Seven was to the [...]...

If you thought David Lynch's films were weird, just wait till you hear him sing. Xan Brooks catches up with the surrealist maestro in the Paris workshop where he's plotting his next creative masterstroke

Tear up the notepad and throw out the questions: this road map is getting us nowhere. Across the table, David Lynch appears to be gently yay-and-naying me to death. "Yes and no," is his reply to my first query. "No, well, maybe," is how he greets the second. I feel as though I'm stuck on my own personal stretch of Mulholland Drive, going round and round in an endless loop.

All of which is oddly reassuring. We go to Lynch for severed ears and nightmare rabbits, dancing dwarfs and haunted radiators. We look to him for worlds that are wild at heart and weird on top. Straight answers and facile interpretations have never been his bag.