The Inimitable Weirdness of David Lynch

The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s 2022, barely coded biopic of his own artistic adolescence, ends with a young Sammy Fabelman (the Spielberg stand-in) granted an audience with his hero, the legendary American director John Ford. Sitting in a dim office in trademark ball cap and eyepatch, puffing on a big cigar, Ford is played by another fabled American filmmaker—David Lynch, who passed away Thursday at 78, following a struggle with emphysema.