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Blue Velvet [DVD] [1986] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Isabella Rossellini (Actor), Kyle MacLachlan (Actor), David Lynch (Director) | Format: DVD
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
  • Directors: David Lynch
  • Writers: David Lynch
  • Producers: Fred C. Caruso, Richard A. Roth
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English, French
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: 25 April 2000
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0792844793
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 163,988 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle-class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a strange world, isn't it? 2 Jun 2012
By Shazzerman
Format:Blu-ray
The DVD was atrocious: a non-anamorphic mess. This new blu-ray restores the beauty of one of the darkest cinematic visions in a long while, making it darker (but not so dark that we cannot see just what the hell is going on, as in the DVD). Small-town Americana gets "Lynched" in "Blue Velvet", and this time the visuals are pin-sharp. The audio is fantastic too, giving full reign to the David Lynch/Alan Splet sound design. Dennis Hopper will forever BE Frank Booth, and for that we should be thankful. The hiss of his nitrous oxide tank makes a certain weapon brandished by a certain Mr Chigurh sound positively charming...
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant film... weird disc 25 Dec 2011
By D. W. T. Taylor
Format:Blu-ray
This isn't a review as such, as I imagine that most movie buffs will have already made up their mind whether or not they like Blue Velvet and want to spring for a blu-ray. But praise to this 25th Anniversary edition for a splendid transfer of the film itself and some truly eye-opening extras, not least almost a full hour of deleted scenes. And bear in mind that these aren't a bunch of scrappy outtakes made up of grainy workprint footage - we're talking fully-formed sequences that have been edited and scored.

No, my main reason for writing this review is just to forewarn anyone buying the disc that it has a very peculiar design. There is no main menu and when you play the disc it just jumps straight into the movie. If you then press the menu button, it says there isn't one. Took me a good 15 minutes of fumbling around to figure out how to access the extras. Basically, you let the film start playing, then press the 'Up' arrow on your handset and a pop-up menu appears that asks if you want to continue watching the film or go to the extras, then you use the other arrows to navigate through the extras while the film continues to play under the pop-up menu. Once you've selected an extra by pressing 'Enter', the movie stops and you jump to your selection.

I've never come across a menu selection quite as weird as this - in fact, for a while I was convinced the disc was defective! So full marks for the movie and extras, points lost for the baffling disc design.
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118 of 130 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, Horrible DVD. 20 Mar 2005
By J. Scott TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I should start by saying that I've never paid much attention to talk of good and bad 'prints' of movies, and always regarded it as a bit of movie snobbery. Until now, I've never purchased a DVD that left me seriously unhappy with the quality of the image.

I'm afraid this DVD (by Prism Leisure Corporation) changed all that. Quite simply, it's dreadful. Ok, it's a budget DVD, but frankly, if someone offers you this DVD for *free* you should politely decline.

Blue Velvet is one of my favourite movies. I bought this DVD as an upgrade from my aging VHS version. But after 20 minutes of trying to watch the DVD, I ejected it and went back to my old VHS.

In this version, the colours are washed out and muddy; the contrast is terrible; the image is far from sharp. In the dark scenes (and there are a lot of them) you'll frequently find yourself staring at a black screen. In short, watching this DVD is like seeing the movie on a seriously sick TV.

Really, you should give this a miss. Watch it on tape, or on the (much more expensive) special edition DVD (which I've now discovered is much much better and does the movie justice).

I can't believe that I'm writing a 1-star review of Blue Velvet!!

For the movie, five stars, easily. But because of the quality of this DVD, I'm knocking off four of them (and would knock off all five if I could). The movie is stunning, powerful, harrowing. This DVD is just harrowing. Avoid it like the plague.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars DISTURBING, BEAUTIFUL, HORRIFYING, BIZARRE & SURREAL 6 Jan 2003
By Mr. N. Carnegie HALL OF FAME VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
Set in the quiet picture postcard logging community of Lumbertown, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a somewhat naive and squeaky clean college boy, finds a severed human ear. Shocked and disturbed he reports it immediately to the police whilst, with the help of his girlfriend (Laura Dern), he begins his own investigation, which soon leads him into stumbling into the seedy and violent world of abused nightclub singer Dorothy (Isabella Rosellini) and drug-sniffing psychopath (Dennis Hopper).

This is the first movie in which David Lynch really showed us all his cards and united themes and imagery, now familiar to millions through the likes of Mulholland Drive, Wild At Heart and Twin Peaks. Although 16 years old, David Lynch's Blue Velvet has lost none of its shock value. It is still deeply and uniquely disturbing, at times incredibly surreal and utterly compelling viewing. Beautifully filmed and directed by Lynch, its aesthetic value is often deliberately at odds with the subject matter and it is a work of dark genius. It also features superb acting performances all round. In particular, MacLachlan, Rosselinni, Dean Stockwell and Laura Dern shine, but it is Dennis Hopper's magnificent performance as a drug sniffing twisted psychopath that most people will remember.

Bizarre and frequently haunting, beautiful but frequently surreal, this is a movie that will stay with you for a very long time and really is a must see!

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark and dulcet 8 Aug 2002
By entroduce
Format:DVD
In many ways, the opening sequence of Blue Velvet captures perfectly the ironic, slightly sinister but also darkly amusing take on americana which is prevailent in much of Lynch's work. His perspective is undoubtedly a fascinating one, both terrifying and strangely magnetic. As the father collapses to the sounds of fifties pop, its dreamy often delicious melody lulls the viewer, evoking a mood that continues throughout a film where one experiences an almost halluogenic view of the underbelly of an everyday american town. It could be argued that it is Hopper's portrayal of psychotic madman Frank Booth that captures centre stage, and he is without doubt a truly memorable cinematic creation. However, it was the naivety of Kyle MacLaclan's youthful character, combined with Rossellini's interpretation of a tortured but beautiful sexual paradox, both predator and victim which I found most interesting. Their relationship, and the violation of MacLachlan's innocence that it initiates is both startling and frighteningly magnetic. The claustrophobic world of Blue Velvet is somehow liberating, Lynch casts aside the viewer's expectations and perceptions, they are shed much like MacLachlans fragile innocence, his percieved corruption a watershed for the viewer.

There have been some gripes about the technical virtues of the DVD itself, however I had no problems whatsoever. The picture quality was great as was the sound. If you're some kind of DVD anorak [no offence intended] you might find some obscure detail to take issue with; but as far as I could see, the film was in no way impaired.

The film is quite simply brilliant, although its conclusion is perhaps a little too neat. On the whole however, it is a great production and well worth your money.... Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 stars Very tough and left me sad.
This film is arguably a cult classic and has hoards of extremely positive reviews, albeit often with the warning of 'be careful....disturbing scenes'. Read more
Published 2 months ago by L
5.0 out of 5 stars blue velvet blu ray
This may not be to everyone`s taste but i think it`s one of the best films ever. It is well worth the upgrade to bluray.
Published 3 months ago by johnmoore
1.0 out of 5 stars Blue Velvet
Holy God, worst DVD ever. What a way to ruin David Lynch, the DVD barely let five words be spoken before the thing skipped or froze entirely. Read more
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Published 4 months ago by foleygee
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Lynch's Masterpieces
A brilliant film deserves a good DVD with plenty of bonus features. This was luckily the case with this one. The film itself couldn't be better and is highly recommended. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Claude Mercy
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Lynch ?
I love this movie. Saw it when it first came out in the Cameo in Edinburgh. Had it on VHS. Decided to order the blu-ray in Amazons 3 for £17 deal. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Zane Zorro
5.0 out of 5 stars Blu-Ray Release
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is a masterpiece. For those who haven't seen the film, be prepared for a cinematic experience that you rarely come across. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ben
1.0 out of 5 stars No Luck here
This film is great, I just wish it didn't take forever to dispatch. The company is not contactable so there is no number I can call to get a reason

As usual there is no... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dr. Bradley Andrew Pearl
5.0 out of 5 stars Blue Velvet
An original, well made film with Dennis Hopper playing one of the most nasty villains in cinematic history. Great soundtrack and superbly shot.
Published 9 months ago by P. D. French
5.0 out of 5 stars In Dreams, you're mine
One of my all-time favorite films. This lush, near perfect melodrama is a testament to the power of film and how is speaks to us.

Blue Velvet is many things. Read more
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