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Saturday, Aug 20, 2016
6 PM (120 mins)
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BAMPFA
SUBJECTS
Blue Velvet
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Director of programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan,
Lynch's color-saturated noir posits a small-town America steeped in psychic dread, where evil lurks beneath the manicured lawns. The plot concerns amateur sleuth Kyle MacLachlan's encounters with bruised chanteuse Isabella Rossellini, girl-next-door Laura Dern, and sociopath-next-door Dennis Hopper; after a series of sordid set pieces, the bluebird of happiness finally arrives, but it's an automaton with a real bug in its beak. "No one could quite match the traumatizing combination of horrific, comedic, aural, and subliminal effects Lynch rumbled out in this masterpiece. . . . Still a hilarious, red-hot poker to the brain after [thirty] years" (Guy Maddin).
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- David Lynch
Cinematographer
- Frederick Elmes
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 120 mins
Source
- Park Circus
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In Lynch's 'Velvet,' the real is unreal (review), Los Angeles Times, Carina Chocano, 2006
Blue velvet (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, James Quandt, 2006
Blue velvet (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2001
Blue velvet (program note), Toronto International Film Festival, Lynne Stopkewich, 2000
Crude thoughts and fierce forces: on first looking into the world of David Lynch, kitty-corner from the city morgue... (article), Monthly Film Bulletin, Richard Combs, 1987
Blue velvet (flyer), Lumiere Theater, 1986
Blue velvet (distributor materials), De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
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