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VHS : Blue VelvetIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange directed by: David Lynch  List Price: $14.95 Price: $3.88 You Save: $11.07 (74%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780792838081 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0792838084 Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Release Date: March 07, 2000 Running Time: 120 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1986 Sales Rank: 5969 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Blue VillainI saw "Blue Velvet" listed in "The New York Times list of Best 1000 Movies ever Made". The reviews that I read suggested that this film was rather "blue" itself and I was reluctant to view it. However, I was able to see it on the IFC channel the other night and I was, frankly, amazed that there was so much praise for it. The acting in "Blue Velvet" was so bad that it's almost embarassing. Laura Dern's grimaces late in the film made her look like an unhappy clown. The lead role was played by ... Read More Rating: - Very close to velvety smooth...Let it be known that David Lynch has a very unique style; a style that is a very acquired taste. You either love him or you hate him; there is rarely an in-between. I personally love his work (most of it), which is what saddens me a bit about `Blue Velvet'. This is one of those films that is lauded above all his other work as being the best of the best, but it struck me a little cold. The script is flawless (I love the ambiguities that lie within Lynch's work) and the direction, pace and mood ... Read More Rating:  - yummy! =)this movie is a classic mind bender! if you like david lynch's other stuff, like lost highway or wild at heart, you will like this. oh, mommy! ;) Rating: - Good MovieI had never heard of this movie until I was watching a TV show that was describing the 10 best crime movies. I ordered it new and was pleased with the movie and the prompt delivery from Amazon. Rating: - The Hardy Boys investigate a real mysteryAfter his father has a stroke, clean-cut college student Jeffery Beaumont (Kyle McLaughlin) returns home to help out in his father's hardware store. While walking in a field one day, he discovers a severed ear which leads him and girlfriend, policeman's daughter, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), on a Hardy Boys-esque investigation that takes them to the dark underbelly of their perfect American small town existence. Imagine a 1930's film noir with sex and drugs, and the Hardy Boys as detectives, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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