The director, along with his collaborator Chrystabell explain – or try to – their new album Cellophane Memories and the magical marriage of music and film

‘Where we’re from,” says The Man from the Other Place in David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks, “there’s always music in the air.” The line concerns a terrifying alternate reality called the Black Lodge, but could apply to the whole of Lynch’s surrealist cinematic universe. From industrial drones to soaring ballads, it has always been filled with music: think of Roy Orbison songs shattering reality in Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet , or Julee Cruise’s spectral singing in Twin Peaks . “Cinema is sound and picture both – 50/50 really,” Lynch says. “I don’t know why everyone doesn’t think this way.”

Lynch has long made his own music, dating back to 1977 with his soundtrack for his debut feature film Eraserhead, composed with sound designer Alan Splet. Lynch gave his first vocal performance on Ghost of Love, a song for 2006’s Inland Empire in a spine-chilling croon, and has since released two solo LPs. Now, his new album Cellophane Memories, made with longtime collaborator Chrystabell, is another strange adventure in sound: an album of ghosts, fed by several of the long, devoted creative partnerships that have shaped Lynch’s remarkable 78 years.

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The former president continues to bring up the fictional killer at rallies. Anthony Hopkins is ‘appalled’ while everyone else remains confused …

If the rumours are true, and Donald Trump really is becoming increasingly displeased with his choice of running mate, JD Vance, then it can only be a matter of time before he replaces him. And when he does, there is only one figure that he can possibly choose. A figure with a clinical mind. A figure with a sharkish ruthlessness. The figure who haunts Trump’s every waking thought. The overwhelming object of his obsession. That’s right: Trump’s next VP pick has to be the late, great Hannibal Lecter.

Trump mentioned Hannibal Lecter again last night , during a rally in North Carolina. During a rambling tangent about immigrants, Trump said: “They’re coming from everywhere. They’re coming from all over the world, from prisons and jails, and mental institutions and insane asylums. You know, they go crazy when I say, ‘The late great Hannibal Lecter,’ OK? They say, ‘Why would he mention Hannibal Lecter? He must be cognitively in trouble.’ No no no, these are real stories. Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs. He’s a lovely man. He’d love to have you for dinner.”

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Pixar’s sequel to its 2015 hit has now overtaken Frozen II and Barbie in global ticket sales, reaching $1bn in only 19 days

Inside Out 2 has overtaken Frozen II to become the highest-grossing animation of all time. Pixar’s sequel to its 2015 smash about emotions battling for primacy inside the head of a preteen girl has taken $1.46bn (£1.13bn) over its first six weeks of release; Disney’s follow-up to its wintry hit took $1.45bn (£1.12bn) over its entire theatrical run in 2019.

A third Disney film, the 2019 remake of The Lion King , made $1.65bn (£1.28bn) but was categorised by Disney as live-action, despite being computer-generated. Nonetheless, even if that film were on the list, the odds of Inside Out 2 bumping it down in coming weeks look high.

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In anticipation of his 77th birthday, we appraise the monolithically musclebound Austrian’s action-packed oeuvre

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito play twins separated at birth. That’s it, that’s the film. The first of three comedies Schwarzenegger made for director-producer Ivan Reitman proved the action star didn’t take himself as seriously as, say, Sylvester Stallone, and recast him as Mr Family Entertainment.

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The star of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is standing down in order to spend more time with his family

Former James Bond actor George Lazenby has announced his retirement at the age of 84. The Australian actor, best known for playing 007 in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, made the statement on X on Thursday.

“This hasn’t been an easy decision but it’s time to announce my retirement from work,” he wrote. “Therefore, I won’t be doing any more acting or making public appearances, doing any more interviews or signing any more autographs as of today.”

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The actor criticised Trump’s running mate’s views on Kamala Harris and other Democratic politicians in the US – adding that she hoped his daughter never needed IVF

Jennifer Aniston has taken issue with JD Vance’s description of some of the most powerful women in US politics as “childless cat ladies”.

Writing on Instagram, the actor said: “I truly cannot believe this is coming from a potential VP. All I can say is … Mr Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day”.

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He’s got looks, talent and money … but is also generous and modest. Who could ask for more?

Keanu Reeves says that, at 59, he’s thinking about death all the time. We’ve a lot in common, Keanu and I. I’m 57 and I, too, think about death all the time. Today, my specific thought on the subject is how much I would like to come back as Keanu Reeves.

Let us set aside his looks, acting talent and money. Not that I don’t covet them, but we’ll take those as read. There’s so much else to go on. Even Keanu’s preoccupation with death has common sense and positivity running through it like a stick of rock. “Hopefully it’s not crippling, but hopefully it’s sensitised [us] to an appreciation of the breath we have, and the relationships that we have the potential to have.” Oh stop it, Keanu, you’re too much. Oh hang on, there’s more: “I know the ones who love us will miss us.” In his case, that will be an awful lot of people.

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist

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Susan Sarandon and Bette Midler lead a group of old friends who reunite in a dispiriting and disappointing waste of older female actors

The Fabulous Four, a film aimed at the historically underserved older female demographic, provides us with a more recent quandary. It’s a comedy that provides four women over the age of 65 with more screen time than they have become accustomed to, part of the post-Book Club boom that serves to remind the industry of the great many actors who have been sidelined as they’ve done the most unforgivable thing a woman can do in Hollywood: grow old.

Its mere existence is therefore a good thing, backs to be patted and applause to be given, but that’s where the cheering starts and ends. Because, like Poms and 80 for Brady and the Book Club sequel and May’s Summer Camp , it’s easier to admire its purpose than it is to actually enjoy it, good will depleting with every eye-rolling minute. It’s another example of a talented cast – Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph – trying their very, very best with hopelessly sub-par material that they should be in the position to easily turn down yet something is understandably seen as better than nothing.

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From ancient fist-fighters to futurists on bikes, from starchy archers to a naked runner frozen in time … as the Games kick off in Paris, our critic ranks the finest depictions of sport in art

Sport, in particular athletics, gives artists great opportunities, as well as huge challenges. Running, jumping, throwing, fighting, swimming – these ways of using the human body offer much to sculpt, paint, photograph or film. And that has been true since ancient times. The Olympic Games were not just about bringing the different Greek states together in friendly competition: athletics was also central to discovering how to portray people in motion, often in revolutionary ways. Although the ancient Egyptians played ballgames and other sports, depictions of these in their tombs are flat and static. Greece’s Games, by contrast, inspired a great artistic leap forward as sculptors and vase painters learned the language of speed.

The revival of the Olympics at the end of the 1800s coincided with the birth of modern art – and, just as classical artists were inspired by athletics, their modern counterparts have seen the physically elite through eyes liberated by cubism and besotted by pop. Here are the 20 greatest results, the best sporting artworks of all time.

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