David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as ''Blue Velvet'' and ''Mulholland Drive'' and the TV series ''Twin Peaks,'' has died just days before his 79th birthday.

From his strikingly surreal debut Eraserhead in 1977 right through to his expectation-defying series Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017, you could make the case that just about everything he made – with the exception of Dune – qualifies as a genuine masterpiece.