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Blue Velvet (1986)

Name: Blue Velvet
Director: David Lynch
Genre: drama film, horror film, independent film
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 7.7

Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name. The film follows a college student (MacLachlan) who returns to his hometown and discovers a severed human ear in a field, which leads him to uncover a criminal conspiracy involving a…

Directed by David Lynch · Shot by Frederick Elmes · Cut by Duwayne Dunham · Music by Angelo Badalamenti · 121 min

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986) with Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella Rossellini — Serious Feather · 23 min
BLUE VELVET film analysis / movie review SABOTAGING THE NARRATIVE by Rob Ager / Collative Learning — Collative Learning · 13 min
Blue Velvet' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times — The New York Times · 4 min
WTF Happened to Blue Velvet? — JoBlo Originals · 20 min

Elsewhere

More by David Lynch

Hotel Room
Ronnie Rocket
Six Men Getting Sick — 1967
The Alphabet — 1968
The Grandmother — 1970
The Amputee — 1974
Eraserhead — 1977
The Elephant Man — 1980
Dune — 1984
The Cowboy and the Frenchman — 1988
The French as Seen By... — 1988
Twin Peaks. Pilot Episode — 1989
Wild at Heart — 1990
Industrial Symphony No. 1 — 1990
Pilot — 1990
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me — 1992
Lumière and Company — 1995
Premonition Following an Evil Deed — 1995
Lost Highway — 1997
The Straight Story — 1999
Mulholland Drive — 2001
DumbLand — 2002
Rabbits — 2002
Darkened Room — 2002
The Short Films of David Lynch — 2002
Inland Empire — 2006
To Each His Own Cinema — 2007
Boat — 2007
Absurda — 2007
Bug Crawls — 2007

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