Blue Velvet (DVD) Reviews

Directed by David Lynch, 'Blue Velvet' remains an oft-quoted ("Pabst Blue Ribbon!") cult classic, portraying a familiar theme for Lynch which is the 'strange world' that we live in and both the darkness and the light that resides here with us, despite the apparent banality of our everyday lives. Lynch says he was inspired to make this ...  Read the complete review

....daa daa dooooo..... A gentle, sweet little romantic song begins David Lynch's famous film, along with scenes from the suburban American dream, in this case a little place called Lumberton, but in reality, anywhere in white middle class suburbia will do. On his way across a field in this idyllic setting, normal high school ...  Read the complete review

Those unfamiliar with David Lynch need know a few things before venturing into any of his works - he is a master of exploring the strange, and many of his films are complex puzzles that don't so much follow a plot as require careful dissemination by a Film scholar. Needless to say, his Blue Velvet is one of his more straightforward works, and also ...  Read the complete review

A review on this sie the other day reminded me how much I enjoyed this film so last night we dragged it out form the bottom of the DVD cupboard where it was agthering dust to watch it again. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont in a rather surreal story, returniong home to be with his ill father he discovers a dismembered ...  Read the complete review

As a director, David Lynch usually takes a surreal and unorthodox approach to the art of film-making, and whether you love or hate his style, there is no doubting that he has helped create some provocative and unique works during the course of his lengthy career. My favourite Lynch directed film would have to be the 1986 classic 'Blue Velvet'. ...  Read the complete review

Blue Velvet is a mystery and thriller released in year 1986. Film was directed by David Lynch and he also wrote the screenplay of the movie. Film was nominated for academy awards in best direction category. This is a story of college student who find severed human ear and try to investigate on this case with detective's daughter. Star ...  Read the complete review

David Lynch's fourth feature film Blue Velvet, set in the idyllic "Lumberton", presents a warped vision of small town America. For me it was one of the best movies to come out of the 1980s Kyle MacLachlan plays geeky young college student Jeffrey Beaumont who at the beginning of the film witnesses his father having a heart ...  Read the complete review

As rancid and repellent a film as David Lynch has ever produced - and he's produced a fair few in his time - Blue Velvet is foul, misogynist garbage with none of the bravery of its astounding cast, each member of which far outshines the material. Hiding behind a veil of irony - the language of the coward - Blue Velvet concerns the ...  Read the complete review

- BLUE VELVET - Blue Velvet was released in 1986. Written and directed by David Lynch (Eraserhead). Blue Velvet is an American neo-noir, mystery/thriller. Starring Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Kyle MacLachlan, and Laura Dern. BBFC Rating: 18. Running Time: 120 minutes.- The film opens to a large pair of ...  Read the complete review

As strains of Bobby Vinton's classic "Blue Velvet" warble in the background, a blue screen curtain parts to images of 1960's middle America. Everyday people in their front gardens, a man waiving from a fire engine, all seemingly timeless in small town Lumberton in Carolina. Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) is a college student whose ...  Read the complete review

Blue Velvet is set in a typical American sleepy town, check out the trademark white picket fence, the bright blue sky, the firetruck and at first you think that this is going to be a sickly sweet story about suburban America complete with Blue Velvet setting the scene but suddenly this illusion is shattered in a freaky way. A man who is watering ...  Read the complete review

"Blue Velvet" is Lynch's masterpiece.It is very interesting for a number of reasons. First of all is the linear narrative. With this film Lynch actually uses a straight forward plot. There is nothing surreal about the story. The films characters and setting are what makes this film so unsettling. Watching David Lynch's ...  Read the complete review

Lumberton is not just another middle America town; Lumberton is David Lynch's middle American town, where psychos dwell behind the crumbling walls, where a member of the cast of Quantum Leap wears makeup, where severed ears just happen to be found in the wasteland, and where our hero looses his innocence. Lynch's vision of the ...  Read the complete review

David Lynch is perhaps best known to the general public as the creator of what my mother calls “that weird TV show”, TWIN PEAKS. But before, during and since this series, Lynch has been a director of a number of quality films. BLUE VELVET was the film which he made prior to moving to television and TWIN PEAKS, and the film has a number ...  Read the complete review

Sick perversion and sado-masochism in middle America. This film starts with the cliché's of a white picket fence and then moves rapidly into one of the most bizarre and unpleasant films you ar likely to see. One word comes to mind when I think of this film and that is "disturbing". Dennis Hopper gives his finest performance just ...  Read the complete review

After the humiliating artistic and commercial catastrophe of his expensive sci-fi epic ‘Dune’, most people thought David Lynch had thrown it all away. He returned with the best film of the decade, ‘Blue Velvet’. How surreal. ‘Blue Velvet’ is a disturbingly witty journey to the darkest core of middle ...  Read the complete review