It is a twisted found object in motion, and it found a long-tail audience in the years when a movie could take its time finding one. Lynch’s career was made. I talked with him only once, by phone ...

“RIP David Lynch,” Zamolodchikova wrote. “Watching ‘Mulholland Drive’ in the movie theater with my art ... But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ ...