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Blue Velvet [DVD] [1986]

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3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 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: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Castle Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Sep 2000
  • Run Time: 161 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004Y3Q6
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,487 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Dolby Stereo English
Dolby Stereo
Specially Commissioned Exclusive Interview With Dennis Hopper
New Liner Notes
Booklet With Production Stills


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88 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, Horrible DVD., 20 Mar 2005
By J. Scott "whitefort" (Co. Down United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Velvet [1986] (David Lynch) [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.
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84 of 89 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Terriffic Film Let down By Apalling DVD, 12 Jan 2001
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David Lynch's dark masterpiece "Blue Velvet" surely qualifies as one of the greatest films of the 80's; possibly Lynch's best. Its themes of lust, murder, kidnap, mystery and voyeurism are interwoven with suberb imagery and terrific performances. Dennis Hopper's portrayal of the deviant Frank Booth must rank as one of the greatest screen villians of all time; He practically bursts off the screen and steals every scene he's in. "Blue Velvet" is so successful because it's one of those rare films that seems to exist all in a world of its own, and as a result it is a film to watch again and again. All of which counts for nothing if you purchase the Region 2 DVD edition of the film. The picture and sound quality are possibly the worst examples you'll ever have to endure. To compound this fact, the initial Disc was only available in full-screen. The film was shot in the 2.35:1 format, which means you are losing almost 50% of the picture if you can't watch it in widescreen. The newer version of the british disc claims it's in widescreen, but its only a 16:9 presentation, which is essentially a fake widescreen version with black bars stuck over the top and bottom of the screen. The extras on the initial disc are pathetic; a rather dull portrait gallery is all we get. The picture is so bad that it looks like a scrim has been placed over your t.v. screen. The region 1 version is framed correctly at 2.35:1, and has a Dolby Pro-logic soundtrack, but I haven't been able to watch this version. In short, if your player is multi-region,check that disc out. The storage capacity of DVD is such that we could have had a stunning widescreen presentation loaded with extras, but instead we end up with a version 10 times worse than outdated old VHS. "Blue Velvet" Is a film worthy of 5 stars; the disc gets 1 star simply for existing. Avoid.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars DISTURBING, BEAUTIFUL, HORRIFYING, BIZARRE & SURREAL, 6 Jan 2003
By Mr. N. Carnegie (Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UK.) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite movie with excellent extras!
I will admit like most people.This was the first David Lynch movie I saw and first I didn't think much of it. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Mr. A. J. Ralph

1.0 out of 5 stars I agree, do not buy early cheap region 2 version
I agree with previous reviews for this product, having watched it recently I can say the picture quality is terrible. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Carroll

4.0 out of 5 stars In dreams...
A dark, surreal and disturbing experience with the usual Lynchisms (red curtains, light/dark worlds, symbolic imagery) and a stand-out performance from Dennis Hopper. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Grant Fitzgerald

5.0 out of 5 stars 'She Wore Blue Velvet'
What is there to say about the best film of the 1980's. This film is a modern day fairy tale, a surreal crime thriller and certainly one of Lynch's best and most rated films... Read more
Published 11 months ago by readeruk

5.0 out of 5 stars Blue Velvet - 2-disc widescreen version
Looking at the other reviews here, there seems to be a lot of people unhappy with the Blue Velvet DVD. Read more
Published 12 months ago by P. Hanson

1.0 out of 5 stars Grotesque...
Why is there so much praise for this horrifically bad film?!?


My friend Lewis leant me this last night and I really am racking my brain as to what I did to... Read more
Published 15 months ago by A. Moncrieff

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant.
First up, the DVD quality. Appalling. Terrible. No better than VHS. I've read most of the preceding reviews, and everyone seems to have a problem with the picture quality and not... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mark Hilton

1.0 out of 5 stars Stunning film, flawed DVD edition
Not sure how to rate this DVD, but here it goes...

There's no doubt that Blue Velvet is an extraordinary film, so that would be 5 stars. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Martin

5.0 out of 5 stars "In dreams i walk with you..."
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. Read more
Published 17 months ago by redmanshouts

5.0 out of 5 stars A mastepiece.
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. Read more
Published 23 months ago by R. Pearce

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