Isabella Rossellini

Kyle MacLachlan

Dennis Hopper

Laura Dern

Hope Lange

Dean Stockwell

George Dickerson

Priscilla Pointer

Frances Bay

Jack Harvey

Ken Stovitz

Brad Dourif

Jack Nance

J. Michael Hunter

Dick Green

Fred Pickler

Philip Markert

Leonard Watkins

Moses Gibson

Selden Smith

Peter Carew

Jon Jon Snipes

Angelo Badalamenti

Jean-Pierre Viale

Donald Moore

A. Michelle Depland

Michelle Sasser

Katie Reid

Patricia Norris

Pat Golden

Johanna Ray

Richard A. Roth

Edward 'Tantar' LeViseur

Fred C. Caruso

David Lynch

Frederick Elmes

Duwayne Dunham

Patrick Moriarty

Pamela Guest

Dean Jones

Gail Kearns

Greg Hull

Ellen Rauch

Ian Woolf

Frank Silva

Alan Splet

Ann Kroeber

Richard Hymns

David Parker

Rob Fruchtman

Pat Jackson

Mark Berger

Jeff Goodwin

Ronald Leamon

Dino De Laurentiis

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Blue Velvet

United States of America

English

No. I told you. I don't want to hurt you. I want to help you. I think I know some of what is happening to you.

Blue Velvet is written and directed by David Lynch. It stars Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, George Dickerson and Dean Stockwell. Music is by Angelo Badalamenti and cinematography by Frederick Elmes.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads Jeffrey Beaumont (MacLachlan) into a vortex of troubled mysteries involving a beautiful nightclub singer and a group of crimninals led by the psychopathic Frank Booth (Hopper).

Such is the diversity of David Lynch, you will find many anouncing this to be his last accessible piece of genius, others that it was merely the start of his shift into mainstream majesty. Personally, I just find it a fine movie, easy to follow, even if it's nightmarish at times and brilliantly off kilter at others. 

From the off we are in no doubt that Lynch is setting out to show what crawls beneath the happy facade of suburban small town Americana. We are pitched into a detective story with a difference, one that is fronted by the naivety of a young man aided from the sidelines by the young girl who is falling for him. Both of them stumble into a world of adult pschosexual murk, flanked by the outrageous malignant menace of Booth and his merry band of odd balls. One of the joys to be had here is observing the things and reactions that Booth's group do in the background, splendidly weird. Superbly perfomed by the cast, most of them daring and real for their director, Blue Velvet did earn Lynch a Best Director Oscar nomination. Which considering it was 1986 and the controversial themes at work are troublingly biting, makes the nomination something of a surprise. 

Frederick Elmes also photographed the equally controversial "River's Edge" this same year, and once again he considerably pumps Neo-Noir textures acrosss the pic. While Angelo Badalamenti's musical compositions are lush and pin sharp for scene accompaniments. Main music tracks are Bobby Vinton's title tune and  Roy Orbison's "In Dreams," both certain to never let you forget this film whenever you hear them again. Lynch's film is plot conventionality, yet disturbing in the blending of beauty and violence, both visually and orally - and of course there's some sly humour to be found as well. To me it's not the masterpiece some claim it as, for there's more style than substance, more shock and awe as opposed to character depth, but it is a great, clever and unforgettable film. 8/10

Opens JAN 25 at AFS CINEMA

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