Through the end of January 2025, The Criterion Channel makes the intimate documentary portrait David Lynch: The Art Life free to watch, with no account necessary, as part of their Celebrating David Lynch tribute to the filmmaker, who passed away on January 16, 2025.

A director of such distinctive, overpowering vision that he inspired his own adjective, David Lynch made films that seemed telegraphed straight from his unconscious to the screen. From the unsettling surrealist imagery of his midnight-movie classic Eraserhead to the harrowing suburban nightmare Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and the uncanny majesty of his Hollywood-set masterpieces Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire, Lynch’s labyrinthine puzzle boxes turn the American psyche inside out to reveal its deepest, darkest dimensions.