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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
David Lynch (screenplay)
Release Date:
19 September 1986 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Most Talked About Film of the Decade (US Laserdisc release) more
Plot:
After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 17 wins
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10 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(73 articles)
Lynch’s new film: an “abstract” documentary
(From Reel Loop. 18 November 2009, 4:02 PM, PST)
Bajo La Sal trailer; DVDetails
(From Fangoria. 10 November 2009, 6:43 PM, PST)
(From Reel Loop. 18 November 2009, 4:02 PM, PST)
Bajo La Sal trailer; DVDetails
(From Fangoria. 10 November 2009, 6:43 PM, PST)
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I've never seen anything quite like this before...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Isabella Rossellini | ... | Dorothy Vallens |
 | Kyle MacLachlan | ... | Jeffrey Beaumont (as Kyle Maclachlan) |
 | Dennis Hopper | ... | Frank Booth |
 | Laura Dern | ... | Sandy Williams |
 | Hope Lange | ... | Mrs. Williams |
 | Dean Stockwell | ... | Ben |
| George Dickerson | ... | Detective Williams |
| Priscilla Pointer | ... | Mrs. Beaumont |
| Frances Bay | ... | Aunt Barbara |
| Jack Harvey | ... | Mr. Beaumont |
| Ken Stovitz | ... | Mike |
 | Brad Dourif | ... | Raymond |
| Jack Nance | ... | Paul |
| J. Michael Hunter | ... | Hunter |
| Dick Green | ... | Don Vallens |
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Runtime:
120 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
New Zealand:R18 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Finland:K-16 (1999) |
Finland:K-18 (1987) |
Israel:18 |
Brazil:16 |
West Germany:18 (original rating) |
Finland:K-16 (re-rating) (1999) |
Argentina:18 (video premiere) |
Mexico:D (cut) |
Norway:15 (re-rating) (2007) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) |
Greece:K-17 (tv rating) |
Switzerland:18 (canton of the Grisons) |
Singapore:M18 (re-rating) |
Singapore:R(A) |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:R |
Chile:18 |
France:-12 |
Hong Kong:III |
Ireland:18 |
Italy:VM14 |
Japan:R-15 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:16 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16 |
Iceland:16
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Trivia:
The movie's line "Don't you fucking look at me!" was voted as the #74 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
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Goofs:
Continuity: Jeffrey's hands jump between the top of his head and his ear between shots when he is kneeling before Dorothy when she first discovers him in the closet.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Radio announcer: It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30. There's a whole lotta wood waitin' out there, so let's get goin'.
Nurse Cindy: Mr. Beaumont? Your son Jeffrey's here to see you.
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Radio announcer: It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30. There's a whole lotta wood waitin' out there, so let's get goin'.
Nurse Cindy: Mr. Beaumont? Your son Jeffrey's here to see you.
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Soundtrack:
Honky Tonk (Part I)
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FAQ
Is there a soundtrack available for the film?Was the man in the yellow suit dead?
Was the robin at the end of the film real?
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What surprised me was how very different this was from the two other great David Lynch films I'd seen: "Lost Highway" and "The Straight Story", which are in turn very different from one another. I'd been told by a disappointed David Lynch fan, back in 1997, that the only reason I was so deeply impressed with "Lost Highway" was that I hadn't seen "Bue Velvet", in which he does much the same kind of thing better. "Blue Velvet" may indeed be better (I wouldn't want to say), but in no respect is it the same kind of thing. (The only instance I've encountered so far of Lynch making the same film twice is "Lost Highway" being remade as "Mulholland Drive", which partly accounts for the latter film being so stale and uninvolving.)
"Blue Velvet" is a simple amateur sleuthing story, but the genius is in the telling of it. It's hard to avoid the feeling that something supernatural is somehow involved, although it isn't, and we know that it isn't. It looks and feels as though we're watching the world through a special enchanted (or cursed) prism: the image has been pulled apart, ALMOST into two distinct images, with the elements of pure evil and pure wholesomeness now distinct from one another, sitting just millimetres apart.
Unrelated to this, but still contributing to the intense suspense and the overall creepiness, is Lynch's ability to make us familiar with a few ordinary locations, which grow more sinister - or at least more meaningful - every time we see them, until the sight of a simple concrete stairwell in the dark is enough to make us start to panic.