Films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” aren’t always easy to explain, but they live on in your mind and burrow under your skin.

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

David Lynch answered the call with Blue Velvet. Lynch was an unlikely saviour. He'd made his breakthrough in 1977 with Eraserhead, a deeply disturbing, surreal nightmare of a movie. It was a cult ...