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| Blue Velvet [1986] (David Lynch) | ![Blue Velvet [1986] (David Lynch)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YF5JAQF5L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: David Lynch
Actor: Isabella Rossellini; Kyle Maclachlan; Dennis Hopper; Laura Dern; Hope Lange; Dean Stockwell; George Dickerson; Priscilla Pointer; Frances Bay; Jack Harvey (iii); Ken Stovitz; Brad Dourif; Jack Nance; J. Michael Hunter; Dick Green
Studio: Prism Leisure
Category: DVD
List Price: £5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 5386
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running Time: 115 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014293158954
ASIN: B00004D0B8
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1986
Release Date: October 4, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: A brand new copy. But minor marks to outer cellophane cover. Factory Sealed, so is as new. Mailed the same working day.
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 "In dreams i walk with you..." February 4, 2008
Blue Velvet is about a young boy, Geoffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) who finds a human ear on his way back from visiting his father in hospital. He takes this to the local detective. The detectives young daughter (Laura Dern) catches up with him as he is leaving, she tells him she overhears things and mentions a female singer Valerie (Isabella Rossellini). This starts his mind racing, as he loves a good mystery. The more he finds out about the case, the deeper he gets.
But he has to be careful of the madman, Frank (Dennis Hoppers most memorable on-screen charector) for he is very dangerous man and wont let anyone stand in his way.
Timeless scenes and unforgettable performances by the entire cast make this David Lynchs finest film to date. Playing with the idea of voyeurism he creates a world that Hitchcock would be proud of. This film gets better every time i come back to it, giving it any less then 5stars would be a travesty
A mastepiece. July 27, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Anyone who has ever lived in a small community where normality is assumed probably also suspects that beneath the surface of everyday life lurk malevolent happenings. Blue Velvet is about the moral rot underlying the seemingly hopeful and idealistic American Dream, the loss of innocence and the human psyche at its worse.
Blue Velvet explores the dark side of human relationships built upon power and perversion. This film, written and directed by one of my favourite directors, David Lynch (cutl classic Eraserhead, 2001's greatest Muholland Drive, masterful The Elphant Man and the dark and unsettling Lost Highway), is one of the most hallucinatory, interesting movies ever released in the history of cinema. It elicited a wildly divergent critical and commercial response upon its release ranging from laudatory praise to complete damnation. It is not a movie for everyone. Those who savor exotic experiences are sure to find it both frenzied and exhilarating. I found it the later, Blue Velvet is a visually stunning film, it has beautiful, haunting and unforgettable images, and dark nightmarish scenes, some of which, will propably never leave my mind, and a film that can manage to accomplish that certainly deserves my praise.
The performances are exceptional, and brutally honest, especially the ones that come from the leading man Kyle MacLachlan. All of the actors seemed to fit their characters perfectly, especially Dennis Hooper, who is terrifyingly abnormal and pure evil as one of the best cinema villains to grace the silver screen. Laura Dern and Isabella Rossellini are both among the top notch, exceptional cast. The film is filled with complex and unusual characters and the fact that the cast could pull them of in such a way is extraordinary.
What is so stunning about Blue Velvet is its visual appeal. Laced with arresting beautiful and horrfying images that range from realistic and surreal. The music on the soundtrack demonstrates the eerie effects of many songs (including Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", in a karoke scene from hell), which can transport us and have great impact on us, into realms of nostalgia and fantasy. And what is so scary about this film is that despite its heavy dosages of surrealism and fantasy, the film is very realistic while it showcases surrealism at the same time. What is so scary is this kind of underworld could exist absolutely anywhere, and was is evern more chilling is that it already does.
Despite its inferior imitations and stylistic features that have been borrowed, stolen and reused over and over again (Blue Velvet's visual feel can be seen in American Beauty, Lantana etc.), the film will remain the pinnacle of them all. Blue Velvet is a stunner. Daring, beautiful, horrifying, exhilarating, influential, bold and simply amazing. The film deserves to be watched multiple times for the viewer to fully digest and appreciate the experience of what is an unprecedented, flawless and remarkably original masterpiece that has changed the face of cinema. Undoubtedly worthy of a ten out of ten.
Bizarre Lesson In Film Noir July 7, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an odd and provocative look at sexuality, psychosis and sado-masochism, from 'cult' director David Lynch. Isabella Rossellini, looking as beautiful as ever, plays a young woman in a strange and abusive relationship with the perverted character of David Hopper - a stone cold psychopath with sado-masochistic tendencies.
Tied in with this is the friendship between Laura Dern and a young Kyle McLachlan, who strives to free Isabella Rossellini from her abusive relationship. Nothing goes to plan. Several murders are tied into the plot, and a severely atmospheric soundtrack which guides us through the suburban hell which is rotten and perverted at it's core.
Part social-commentary, part observation of the human psyche, this film is positively edgy and unique, bristling with strangeness and dialogue which puts the viewer ill at ease. Dark, compelling locations and the contrast of this with the picket-fence ideal of the American dream create a truly stunning though very much grueling film.
Of course, this won't be to everyone's taste, and neither will the language or subject matter, but this film is a definite example of true 'alternative' film, as well as an exercise in unusual film-making. Highlights include the manic, career-defining performance of Dennis Hopper.
 Yes ... David Lynch ... May 19, 2007
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
Demented and half-way incomprehensible. English sub-titles might help, but probably not much.
I did start to write notes while I watched the film, but usually I can produce a more coherent critique than this:
"Alas; the wasteland of devastated small town America; the ticky-tacky houses; everyone going everywhere by car and shouting; is this about Romeo and Juliet grown up in a depraved environment? Welcome to barbarian savagery and inadequacy. For me, as often, it is a pity that U.S. speech makes everything sound false ... since initially I thought that there were interesting depths of personality and reality to explore, but they do all rather disappear in a screech of tyres. At first Isabella Rossellini seems too shrill? - then you realise that you are seeing David Lynch's usual demented ... imaginative ... extremism. Observe the mad activity and laugh with half your mind: given a gifted but crazed director, how are you to judge the actors? In the end all I could find to say was "not a NICE film"."
 dark and close to home January 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
david lynchs blue velvet is a film that traces the idea that there is good and evil in the world and it can be found in the smallest of idealic places,and sometimes you dont even know its there,the sleepy village of lumberton as featured here is one such example.
Kyle maclachlan plays jeffrey,a student who returns to the village to see his sick dad,he then happens to fins an ear in the grass and reports it,but his curiosity gets the better of him and with some help from the sheriffs daughter he decides to find things out for himself and along the way meets dorothy,played brilliantly by isabella rossellini,who is a slave to the excellent frank,played by dennis hopper who has kidnapped her son,events unravel as fear and darkness become reality.
The film has a more A to B narrative that most of lynchs movie but the film still has its twists and surreal moments,hopper is immense here as a criminal with so much hate inside,he breathes through an oxygen mask for a few seconds and then goes on a barrage of abuse and torture,this is a classic in many ways.
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