Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.

“Blue Velvet,” the movie that I still think is Lynch’s greatest ... because that’s how he felt safe enough to let his mind roam free; who dressed like a downtown dandy with his buttoned ...

“The thing is, he really believes in that,” I remember a friend saying as we mulled over Blue Velvet, in one of the surely infinite number of fervid conversations that movie has inspire ...