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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dennis Hopper scared the hell out of me in 1986. As Frank Booth, the worst father figure a boy detective ever had, Hopper slithered like a python through the nightmare that is David Lynch’s “Blue ...