- 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: DVD-Video, PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Sanctuary
- DVD Release Date: 17 Jun 2008
- Run Time: 120 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000AM76A
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 42,877 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
Special Features
- All-new 30-min documentary Strange Desires. Includes archive interviews with David Lynch and new (2003) interviews with Dino De Laurentis, Dennis Hopper and more unlocking the secrets of Blue Velvet
- Archive review from BBC's Moving Pictures series with J.G. Ballard - "The Best Film of the 1980's"
- All-new animated menus
- Theatrical Trailer
DVD Technical Information:
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen
- Audio: re-mastered Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1 surround sound
- Running Time: 116 minutes
- Region Code: 0 (All)
- PAL
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112 of 117 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great movie, Horrible DVD.,
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This review is from: Blue Velvet [1986] [DVD] (DVD)
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.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lynch invades your dreams!!!!!!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Blue Velvet W/S [DVD] (DVD)
I remember my parents watching Twin Peaks when I was little and we had the soundtrack, a haunting, melodious collection of music that had me spellbound when I first heard it. However it wasn't till I was older and saw Blue Velvet that David Lynch began to take over my mind. . . If you've never seen David Lynch this is a good place to start as it has a combination of his trademark obscurity (seen perhaps best in Eraserhead, Lost Highway and Twin Peaks FWWM) and a reasonably linear structure (though not as coherent as The Straight Story), so incorporating some of the finest techniques of his work. The plot is bizarre, complex and perverse leaving unanswered questions and disturbing imagery firmly impressioned on the mind. Blue Velvet creates a remarkably hokey smalltown American town and explores the sinister mechanics behind the seemingly placid facade. No one else can combine tacky diners, convenience stores, picket fences and tweeting robins with the sadomasochistic underworld quite like Lynch can. Watch it and you'll never forget it. Watch any more of his films and you'll never think about cinema the same again!!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark and dulcet,
By entroduce (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blue Velvet W/S [DVD] (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. An american film by an american director which could almost be labelled a work of art. You can't proclaim that too often.
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