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Film Generations

Film Generations

203. Blue Velvet (1986)

Film Generations · Mar 18, 2024 · 57:24

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Following the big budget failure of Dune, director David Lynch went back to his surrealistic roots with a controversial vision of American suburbia’s dark underbelly, Blue Velvet.  This movie put actors Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern on the map as a young couple searching for clues, featured Isabella Rossellini as a sexually blackmailed lounge singer, and revived the career of counter-culture icon Dennis Hopper as the terrifyingly unpredictable Frank Booth.
Considered extremely edgy for a mainstream studio release in 1986, does this psycho-sexual coming of age story still pack the same transgressive yet highly engrossing punch that it once did?  Find out what our panel of young film-lovers think after seeing Blue Velvet for the very first time, in a post-Twin Peaks world that has already absorbed so much of Lynch’s style and sensibility.
An ElectraCast Production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Velvet_(film)
Rerelease Trailer: https://youtu.be/k_BybDB_phY?si=9Dn5vrLyjFB-Zsqj
American Film Critics 4th Best Film of the 1980’s
Sight & Sound 5th Best Film 1975-2000
American Film Institute 8th Best Mystery of All Time
American Film Institute 36th Best Villain of All Time
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