Sneak Peek nearly one hour's worth of newly released deleted scenes from director David Lynch's surrealistic 1986 noir mystery feature "Blue Velvet", starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern.
"Blue Velvet" was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest mystery films ever made:
"...college student 'Jeffrey Beaumont' (MacLachlan), returning from visiting his ill father in the hospital, comes across a body part in a field in his hometown of 'Lumberton'.
"He proceeds to investigate with help from a high school student, 'Sandy Williams' (Dern), who provides him with information and leads from her father, a local police detective.
"Jeffrey's investigation draws him deeper into his hometown's seedy underworld, and sees him forming a sexual relationship with the alluring torch singer 'Dorothy Vallens' (Rossellini)...
"...and uncovering the psychotic criminal 'Frank Booth' (Hopper), who engages in drug abuse, kidnapping and violence..."
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"Blue Velvet" was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest mystery films ever made:
"...college student 'Jeffrey Beaumont' (MacLachlan), returning from visiting his ill father in the hospital, comes across a body part in a field in his hometown of 'Lumberton'.
"He proceeds to investigate with help from a high school student, 'Sandy Williams' (Dern), who provides him with information and leads from her father, a local police detective.
"Jeffrey's investigation draws him deeper into his hometown's seedy underworld, and sees him forming a sexual relationship with the alluring torch singer 'Dorothy Vallens' (Rossellini)...
"...and uncovering the psychotic criminal 'Frank Booth' (Hopper), who engages in drug abuse, kidnapping and violence..."
Click the...
- 11/17/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Riffing on Terek Puckett’s terrific list of director/actor collaborations, I wanted to look at some of those equally impressive leading ladies who served as muses for their directors. I strived to look for collaborations that may not have been as obviously canonical, but whose effects on cinema were no less compelling. Categorizing a film’s lead is potentially tricky, but one of the criteria I always use is Anthony Hopkins’s performance in Silence of the Lambs, a film in which he is considered a lead but appears only briefly; his character is an integral part of the story.
The criteria for this article is as follows: The director & actor team must have worked together at least 3 times with the actor in a major role in each feature film, resulting in a minimum of 2 must-see films.
One of the primary trends for the frequency of collaboration is the...
The criteria for this article is as follows: The director & actor team must have worked together at least 3 times with the actor in a major role in each feature film, resulting in a minimum of 2 must-see films.
One of the primary trends for the frequency of collaboration is the...
- 7/24/2013
- by John Oursler
- SoundOnSight
Blue Velvet has plenty of the makings of noir: a sultry and dangerous atmosphere, big city fear, femme fatale (Dorothy Vallens/Isabella Rossellini), an intrepid detective working outside the police force (Jeffrey Beaumont/Kyle MacLachlan), and, of course, Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath akin to the best of late-period classic American noirs.
By stirring the pot a bit Lynch moves these ingredients closer to something like revisionist noir or satire. The detective and his love interest Sandy Williams (Laura Dern) are more characters from a Nicholas Ray or John Hughes film than anything hard-boiled; the color scheme pushes the pastel-suburbs so far from the darkly saturated nighttime city as to be nearly comical that the two coexist; even Hopper’s Booth takes the psycho-sexual penchants of the worst of Richard Widmark or Ralph Meeker to new extremes.
Blue Velvet’s centerpiece trope is The Slow Club, a dim, sensual...
By stirring the pot a bit Lynch moves these ingredients closer to something like revisionist noir or satire. The detective and his love interest Sandy Williams (Laura Dern) are more characters from a Nicholas Ray or John Hughes film than anything hard-boiled; the color scheme pushes the pastel-suburbs so far from the darkly saturated nighttime city as to be nearly comical that the two coexist; even Hopper’s Booth takes the psycho-sexual penchants of the worst of Richard Widmark or Ralph Meeker to new extremes.
Blue Velvet’s centerpiece trope is The Slow Club, a dim, sensual...
- 3/14/2013
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
MGM/20th Century Fox brings home David Lynch’s Blue Velvet home for it’s 25th Anniversary on Blu-Ray. There is no doubt that Blue Velvet is one of David Lynch’s notorious films. Eraserhead may have introduced him to the cult cinema audience but Blue Velvet was possibly his most accessible and mainstream film. It’s kind of hard to believe that it has been 25 years since the theatrical release but it still packs a potent wallop today.
The Movie
Student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) comes back to his hometown of Lumberton after his father suffers a stroke. On the way back home from the hospital, Jeffrey finds a ear among a vacant field. After this discovery he takes it to a local detective and becomes intertwined with the investigation of a local criminal by the name of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and a lounge singer by the name...
The Movie
Student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) comes back to his hometown of Lumberton after his father suffers a stroke. On the way back home from the hospital, Jeffrey finds a ear among a vacant field. After this discovery he takes it to a local detective and becomes intertwined with the investigation of a local criminal by the name of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and a lounge singer by the name...
- 11/18/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
It was a quarter century ago that David Lynch scored one of the greatest comebacks in cinema history by rebounding from the epic fail of Dune with the art house neo-noir that was Blue Velvet. The creepy crime flick — starring Kyle MacLachlan as a peeping tom amateur detective and Dennis Hopper as a gas-huffing, F-bomb hurling deviant — earned the then 41-year-old Eraserhead auteur an Oscar nomination (the second nod of his career; The Elephant Man gave him his first) and set the stage for the pop culture phenomenon of Twin Peaks. Blue Velvet is full of offbeat, seemingly gratuitous choices,...
- 11/14/2011
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW - Inside Movies
Yeah, that headline is a little sick when you think about it in context. Today, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is released on Blu-Ray by 20th Century Fox/MGM. Not only is it the first time the film enters into high definition but among the special features of the disc is something fans will love – 50 minutes of previously lost footage.
In order to celebrate the 25th Anniversary, there are 21 Clips below! This includes some Red Band Clips & deleted scenes. Enjoy and order the Blu-Ray today!
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Strange World Redux”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Do It For Van Gogh”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Dorothy Vallens Intro”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Nightmare”
Blue Velvet – Red Band Film Clip: “On the Hunt”
Blue Velvet – Red Band Film Clip: “Pbr at Ben’s”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Robin Dream”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Strange World”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Underworld”
Blue Velvet...
In order to celebrate the 25th Anniversary, there are 21 Clips below! This includes some Red Band Clips & deleted scenes. Enjoy and order the Blu-Ray today!
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Strange World Redux”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Do It For Van Gogh”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Dorothy Vallens Intro”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Nightmare”
Blue Velvet – Red Band Film Clip: “On the Hunt”
Blue Velvet – Red Band Film Clip: “Pbr at Ben’s”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Robin Dream”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Strange World”
Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Underworld”
Blue Velvet...
- 11/8/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
By Todd Garbarini
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There are a handful of films that I hated the first time that I viewed them, but upon subsequent viewings have all come to be beloved favorites of mine. James Toback’s Fingers (1978) was an incoherent mess to my naïve, nineteen year-old eyes but was revealed to be one of the cinema’s greatest character studies years later; William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) seemed like a Miami Vice wanna-be, but is now one of the best police thrillers ever and gives the average person a hint of what it must be like to be a cop; and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) was…well…strange. The film was…confusing…boring…aimless…weird…My friends and I honestly didn’t know what to make of it after we stumbled out of the theater in October 1986 and pondered...
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There are a handful of films that I hated the first time that I viewed them, but upon subsequent viewings have all come to be beloved favorites of mine. James Toback’s Fingers (1978) was an incoherent mess to my naïve, nineteen year-old eyes but was revealed to be one of the cinema’s greatest character studies years later; William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) seemed like a Miami Vice wanna-be, but is now one of the best police thrillers ever and gives the average person a hint of what it must be like to be a cop; and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) was…well…strange. The film was…confusing…boring…aimless…weird…My friends and I honestly didn’t know what to make of it after we stumbled out of the theater in October 1986 and pondered...
- 10/30/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Twenty-five years ago, David Lynch held a crystal clear mirror up to the face of America. Blue Velvet, which had played festivals in Montreal and Toronto, opened in the Us on September 19, 1986. It was mainstream America’s real introduction to the private world of David Lynch. Eraserhead was still a cult film. While many people had seen The Elephant Man and some (not many) had seen Dune, few were prepared for the deeply idiosyncratic dreamscape Americana seen in Blue Velvet. Attacked for depicting a savage sexuality rarely seen on screen, the movie attracted no shortage of negative attention, but it quickly became regarded as a classic. After twenty-five years Blue Velvet’s mysterious and musical vision of middle-American life remains seductive and powerful. Its gallows humor still earns laughs, and a peculiar clash of of classical Hollywood and noirish styles draws viewers in to Lynch’s unique world. The classic...
- 9/20/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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