David Lynch Movies and TV Shows: Where to Stream ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ and More

If there’s one positive from “Dune” it was the director’s collaboration with MacLachlan, who would go on to star in the thoroughly Lynchian “Blue Velvet,” a tale of the disturbing world lurking under small-town life, a theme that would resonate with Lynch again and again. MacLachlan plays Jeffrey Beaumont, who stumbles upon a severed ear when he comes home from college. (That ear, crawling with ants, is one of Lynch’s most indelible images in a career full of them.) The discovery leads Jeffrey, who has a peeping-tom nature, to the innocent Sandy (Laura Dern, another one of Lynch’s regular players), the singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), and the violent Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). In an interview with The Times, Lynch tried to describe how the ear was the impetus for the story, “I don’t know why it had to be an ear. Except it needed to be an opening of a part of the body — a hole into something else, like a ticket to another world. The ear sits on the head and goes right into the mind so it felt perfect. Maybe a psychiatrist would have something to say about that.”