Overview
Director David Lynch follows up 1984's DUNE with this electrifyingly original thriller. After returning to his hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina, in order to visit his sick father, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers a severed human ear in a vacant field. He befriends Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), the daughter of the detective assigned to the case, and uses her information to investigate the situation himself. This leads Jeffrey to Dorothy Valence (Isabella Rossellini), a sexy nightclub singer whose involvement with a raving psychopath named Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) begins to answer some important questions. Unfortunately, it also draws Jeffrey one step closer to Frank, a menacing figure who inhales from a nitrous-oxide tank and preaches the pleasures of drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. The film contains such a unique blend of comedy, drama, and suspense that the line between the three is blurred, making for an unsettling yet highly invigorating viewing experience. Lynch manages to create a world onscreen that is superficially normal but tinted with a weirdness that is all his own. It is this twisting of reality that makes BLUE VELVET an oddly familiar yet completely unique motion picture, featuring an unforgettable performance by Dennis Hopper.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
David Lynch - Director
Isabella Rossellini
Kyle MacLachlan
Dennis Hopper
Laura Dern
Hope Lange
Dean Stockwell
George Dickerson
Priscilla Pointer
Frances Bay
Jack Harvey
Details
- Format: Blu-ray (Dubbed, Mono Sound, AC-3, Digital Theater System, Widescreen)
- Run Time: 120
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 883904238874
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: R (MPAA) ((No notes.))
- Release Date: November 2011
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer. Truly an auteur film, if there is such a thing, BLUE VELVET is a bizarre, disturbing work that stands as one of the best films of the 1980s.
Notes:
Theatrical release: September 19, 1986.
BLUE VELVET was shot on location in Wilmington, North Carolina.
David Lynch had it scripted for Frank Booth to inhale from a helium tank, but Dennis Hopper convinced him to change it to nitrous oxide in order to lessen the comic effect.
When informed of his Academy Award nomination as Best Director for BLUE VELVET, David Lynch said, "I'd like to thank Woody Allen."
The film was awarded the Belgian Plateau Prize as Best Foreign Film in 1986-87.
BLUE VELVET was shown in competition at the Montreal Film Festival.
Reviews:
"...A visionary masterpiece..." - 12/14/1989 Rolling Stone, p.23
"...An instant cult classic....It confirms [Lynch's] stature as an innovator, a superb technician, and someone best not encountered in a dark alley..." - 09/19/1986 New York Times, p.C12
Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1986" - 12/28/1986 New York Times, p.II,19
"...The most brilliantly disturbing film ever to have its roots in small-town American life. Shocking, visionary, rapturously controlled, its images of innocence and a dark, bruising sexuality drop straight into our unconscious where they rest like depth charges..." - 09/19/1986 Los Angeles Times, p.C1
"...The movie hasn't lost its power to shock as well as mesmerize..." - 06/07/2002 Entertainment Weekly, p.53
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