| | Blue Velvet DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Suspense DVDs, Dramas Movies, Thriller Videos, Mystery, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Cult, Sex, Black Comedy, Kidnapping And Missing Persons, Psychos, Psychodrama, Disturbing, AFI Top 100 Thrills, AFI Top 50 Villains | | Starring | Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dean Stockwell, Angelo Badalamenti, Brad Dourif, Laura Dern, Jack Nance, Frances Bay, Hope Lange, Priscilla Pointer, George Dickerson | | Director | David Lynch | | Composer | Angelo Badalamenti | | Costume Designer | Gloria Laughride | | Director of Photography | Frederick Elmes | | Editor | Duwayne Dunham | | Production Designer | Patricia Norris | | Screenwriter | David Lynch |
Brad Dourif, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Frances Bay, Hope Lange, Isabella Rossellini, Jack Nance, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern - Director: David Lynch. Cleancut college boy Jeffrey finds his Mayberry-like hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field. His investigation catapults him into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist. Soon Jeffrey's led deeper into their depraved existence finding himself obsessed with this dark, enigmatic underworld, to the point of no return. 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. 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. 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.
Blue Velvet Quotes/Excerpts: "I'm seeing something that was always hidden...I'm in the middle of a mystery, and it's all secret."--Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan)
"The town that knows how much a woodchuck chucks."--Lumberton radio deejay
"Why are there people like Frank?"--Jeffrey
"It's a strange world, isn't it?"--Jeffery Blue Velvet Reviews: "...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..."
-- Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times "...The movie hasn't lost its power to shock as well as mesmerize..."
-- Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly "...A visionary masterpiece..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...An instant cult classic....It confirms [Lynch's] stature as an innovator, a superb technician, and someone best not encountered in a dark alley..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1986"
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times Blue Velvet | List Price | $14.94 (You save $5.15) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1986 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  1209  | | CD Universe Part number | 3051381 | | Catalog number | 1003504 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 04, 2002 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 120 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; HiFi Sound; Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound; Widescreen; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled |
Blue Velvet DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Special Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Letterbox - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish
Stereo 2.0 - French
Additional Release Material:
Review:
1. SISKEL AND EBERT
Featurette:
1. MYSTERIES OF LOVE
2. ARE YOU A PERVERT
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos:
1. Photo Gallery
2. Promotional Material
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