BLUE VELVET (SPECIAL EDITION) DVD

Blue Velvet
Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his picture-perfect small town when his father suffers a stroke. Walking through a field near his home, Jeff discovers a severed human ear, which he immediately brings to the police. Their disinterest sparks Jeff's curiosity, and he is soon drawn into a dangerous drama that's being played out by a lounge singer, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and the ether-addicted Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). The sociopathic Booth has kidnapped Dorothy's young son and is using the child as a bargaining chip to repeatedly beat, humiliate and rape Dorothy. Though he's drawn to the virginal, wholesome Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), Jeff is also aroused by Dorothy and in trying to aid her, he discovers his dark side. As the film nears its conclusion, our hero learns that many more indivduals are tacitly involved with Frank, including a suave, lip-synching singer, Ben (Dean Stockwell), who is minding the kidnapped boy. Director Lynch explored many similar themes of the "disease" lying just under the surface of the small town, all-American façade in his later television series Twin Peaks (1990-91). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Cast Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth Laura Dern as Sandy Williams Hope Lange as Mrs. Williams Dean Stockwell as Ben Brad Dourif as Raymond Jack Nance as Paul Frances Bay as Aunt Barbara George Dickerson as Detective Williams Jack Harvey as Mr. Beaumont Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Beaumont Ken Stovitz as Mike

Crew Pat Golden - Casting Johanna Ray - Casting Pat Norris - Costume Designer Gloria Laughride - Costume Designer David Lynch - Director Duwayne Dunham - Editor Richard A. Roth - Executive Producer Angelo Badalamenti - Composer (Music Score) Edward Reyes - Composer (Music Score) Angelo Badalamenti - Musical Direction/Supervision Victor Yound - Songwriter Lee Morris - Songwriter Bernie Wayne - Songwriter Shep Shephard - Songwriter Clifford Scott - Songwriter Angelo Badalamenti - Songwriter Bill Doggett - Songwriter Edward Heyman - Songwriter David Lynch - Songwriter Jeff Goodwin - Makeup Pat Norris - Production Designer Frederick Elmes - Cinematographer Fred Caruso - Production Manager Fred Caruso - Producer Greg Hull - Special Effects Alan Splet - Sound/Sound Designer Richard Langdon - Stunts David Lynch - Screenwriter Roy Orbison - Featured Music

Blue Velvet
David Lynch's map of the terrain between wet dream and nightmare, Blue Velvet reaffirmed the director's status as one of the most vital talents in American filmmaking, and achieved a mood and tone which would indelibly influence popular culture for the remainder of the 20th century. Though much of the film revolves around a compelling, lurid mystery -- executed in a tense, economical manner that might have made Alfred Hitchcock proud -- Blue Velvet is more interested in the mysteries of desire and the horrors of unchecked deviance. Lynch uses the form, style, and mood of a film noir to challenge and ultimately subvert notions of innocence, sexuality, and love. Even the casting reflects the director's agenda: Lynch's fresh young heroes, as played by Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, are like leads in a 1950s hygiene film; he pits them against two icons of a lost Hollywood, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper, the latter turning in a jolting, career-resuscitating performance. Though it specifies no particular time, Blue Velvet's "golly gee" milieu of Lumberton, replete with soda fountains, convertibles, and hardware stores, is a Reagan-era idyll, an exaggeration of the 1980s concept of the American Dream. But from the moment Lynch's camera delves underground (in a surreal, Buñuel-like moment) to take in a thriving community of ants, it's clear that the director is more interested in the Reagan of Kings Row (1941), and in the grotesque despair that lurks beneath the surface of placid middle-American life. The film was a breakthrough for Lynch in the way it melded the dream worlds of Eraserhead (1977) and Dune (1984) with the more literal, narrative approach of The Elephant Man (1980): its densely saturated, red-white-and-blue color scheme was stunningly photographed by Fredrick Elmes; the haunting, expressionistic soundscape was designed by frequent Lynch collaborator Alan Splet. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
 

David Lynch: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Director (nominated) David Lynch: Golden Globe, Best Screenplay (nominated) David Lynch: Independent Spirit Awards, Best Director (nominated) David Lynch: Independent Spirit Awards, Best Screenplay (nominated) David Lynch: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Best Director (winner) Dennis Hopper: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic (nominated) Dennis Hopper: Independent Spirit Awards, Best Actor (nominated) Dennis Hopper: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic (winner) Frederick Elmes: Independent Spirit Awards, Best Cinematography (nominated) Isabella Rossellini: Independent Spirit Awards, Best Actress (winner) Laura Dern: Independent Spirit Awards, Best Actress (nominated)

Independent Spirit Awards, Best Picture (nominated) Telluride Film Festival, Film Presented (nominated)

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