Cinema’s “All American” auteur of the dark, surreal and inexplicable turns 68 today, yet he somehow remains boyish. Must be all that meditation?

David Lynch student film, ‘Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)’ (1967)
If ‘Dirty Dancing’ were directed by David Lynch
‘Eraserhead Stories’: David Lynch looks back on his weirdest film
‘Hotel Room’: David Lynch’s oddball HBO mini-series, 1993
David Lynch’s guide to film-making
David Lynch sells coffee
‘The Pink Jack’ : AC/DC vs David Lynch vs. Dead Can Dance (NSFW)
David Lynch’s ‘Eraserhead’ in 60 seconds, done in clay
David Lynch’s hair compared to well-known paintings
Sean Young’s Super-8 film diary from David Lynch’s ‘Dune’ (1983)
David Lynch: ‘Ideas flow through like these beautiful little fish, and you catch them’
 
Below, a young David Lynch makes a brief appearance on New Wave Theatre sometime in the early 1980s.