To look back on the obituaries featured in The Irish Times during 2025 is to acknowledge some of those who died this year after leading unusual, remarkable, and/or distinguished lives. January David Lynch (78) American film-maker. In 1970, he received an American Film Institute fellowship and relocated to work on the feature project that would eventually become Eraserhead. He also directed The Elephant Man; Blue Velvet; and Wild at Heart, which won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes film festival. The groundbreakingTV series Twin Peaks was a huge success. His thriller Mulholland Drive was named the best film of...