David Lynch: The Definitive Ranking

David Lynch is a fascinating filmmaker. Talented in more traditional ways, he chooses to mainly exist in a more abstract plane of narrative filmmaking than most. Two of his films (The Elephant Man and The Straight Story) are as normal as anything any other independent filmmaker could make, but his body of work is dominated by the abstract.

Formed in the 50s and 60s, he’s concerned heavily with nuclear power, industrialization, and Transcendential Meditation. He’s also a family man with wo...