Blue Velvet: Re-release (DVD)

Blue Velvet, released in 1986, was director David Lynch’s fourth film, and probably the one that cemented his reputation as weird but still commercial. While it’s not quite his best – Eraserhead is, and I love The Elephant Man – it’s certainly extraordinarily good, and has a far more logical and linear storyline than most of his work. It tells of the darkness that lurks behind the all-American small town façade, a theme expanded on to slightly less effect in the TV series Twin Peaks. Wholesome college student Jeffrey (a very young and fresh-faced Kyle MacLachlan) is visiting his hometown while his dad’s in hospital. He finds a severed human ear near his home, ...

The cinematic world is nearly always a better place when David Lynch is around. For years now he has been the creator of many a fine film with a weird underbelly. Most recently it's been Mulholland Drive, before that it was The Straight Story which is Lynch's most reserved film yet and all the better for it. However if you needed two words to sum up the world of Lynch then those words would probably be Blue Velvet. Made in 1986, this is a dark and disturbing love story set in white collar american suburbia. Kyle Maclachlan plays Jeffrey, a naive college student with a panchant for mysteries. Isabella Rossellini plays Dorothy, a haunting cabaret singer ...

Directed by David Lynch (also director of Earserhead, the elephant man among others) and produces by Frederick Caruso, Blue velvet tells the story of a nightclub owner Dorothy who has a secret or two in her closet that Geoffrey Beaumont wishes to disclose. While sitting about doing nothing seemingly in the middle of no-where, Geoffrey finds a human ear, decomposed and bug ridden, which he knows is not right, and decides to take the object with him to a local DI by the name of Jon Williams. Seemingly unsurprised and unwilling to shed an y light on the case to Geoffrey, he knows there is more to this than meets the eyes, and with obviously no cooperation from the ...