Blue Velvet (Special Edition)

Came in a sturdy packaging, shrink-wrapped, and in perfect condition. Can’t wait to watch it again tonight!

Lynch's dark satiric film has been copied, acknowledged, and referenced many times but still leads the pack on kinky mysteries

Classic... Well acted, directed

This is the first time I have seen it. I read reviews of it when it first came out and decided not to see it then. Dennis Hopper played his part quite well, as he has in most of his modern movies. The volume of crude language was pretty offensive to me. I have never encountered anyone who used that volume of cursing in their normal speech. While his character was certainly mentally ill, he still had a capacity to be rational in planning his torture and humiliation of others. With the singing of the Roy Orbison hit " In Dreams" by a beautiful woman in an entertainment venue reminded me of Mulholland Drive by David Lynch, where Rebeka Del Rio sang "Crying" on stage.Isabella Rosellini jplayed a wonderful part as a masochist girlfriend/hooker(?) of Hopper's character who begged to be beaten during sex. Her nude scene was probably a show-stopper back in the 80's but is pretty tame by 2015 standards. She had enough ability to be outwardly normal, while voluptuous and inviting, while inwardly craving punishment and comforting, which was something she could achieve with sex.Kyle MacLachlan played a two-timer with a big heart, trying to maintain 2 relationships without hurting either party. Playing the amateur detective, he lured Laura Dern away from Mike, her boyfriend, over a period of time. He coaxed her into joining him to investigate the singer girlfriend of a gangster (Hopper) who was involved in a previous crime. Laura Dern was a little off-cue and seemingly inexperienced in this early work of hers, at first being the unwilling accomplice of MacLachlan , then his lover, then the betrayed lover at the end of the picture, though her part was good enough for this movie. The entire movie had an air of the bizarre to it, so Dern's portrayal fit in place.Like other David Lynch films, this one is odd and characteristic of his work much like Quentin Tarrentino's films are characteristic of his work.

Having just viewed this latest version of Blue Velvet I come away with mixed feelings. Sure the film is still an iconoclastic original that still has a potent shock value that hasn't lost it's sting nearly thirty years (can't believe it's that long ago) on now. Seeing it in blu-ray is as stunning an experience as my initial viewing back in '86. I must confress that I did not love it and it took a few more screenings to appreciate the layered strangeness of the story. By the 80's I had had my fill of typical Hollywood product and was hungry for something radically different. I had seen David Lynch's previous films The Elephant Man and Dune in theaters and had rented Eraserhead on VHS by this time---as well as seeing El Topo, Liquid Sky, and Repo Man. Hollywood movies had absolutely no appeal after this. When I heard that lost footage had been found I was very eager to buy this version and was the first thing I watched when it was delievered (a whole day before the estimated date given--very nice) and settled in for-----a dog eating from a bowl at the Slow Club, the worst stand up comedian imaginable, Jeffery watching a frat boy nearly rape a female student, a very very long dinner at Sandy's house as Jeffery, Sandy, and her boyfiend watch a show with girls in bridal gowns running while tethered to chairs. The few scenes of Frank Booth are really worth sitting through this junk. I am kind of glad that David Lynch was contractually obligated to deliver a film that was two hours long. The inclusion of ninety percent of this "lost" footage would have certainly diminished the power of the film. Do we really need any backstory for Jeffery or scenes of him at school? Not really. With a little creative mental editing one can reconstruct the film and insert these scenes where they might have happened in the film and judge for one's self if they play any vital part in the overall story. It is wonderful that these were discovered and can be seen (I'm still dying to see the twenty minutes Kubrick cut from 2001 or Brando barking like a dog to scare off a salesman in Last Tango In Paris) and judged for their true worth. There is really only one scene which should have been reinstated. It is a very brief scene in which Jeffery calls Dorothy Valen's apartment. Someone picks up the phone but does not answer. It cuts between Jeffery on one end and Frank on the other until Frank barks: "Talk to me f---ker!!!" and Jeffery quickly slams down the phone. It would have been an even scarier moment if we do not see who is on the other end until that jump scare moment of Frank's. Overall I am glad I now have this to my collection although I doubt very much that I'll watch the lost scenes with any great frequency. It is still (in my own opinion) David Lynch's last true masterpiece before his descent into what I like to call "pop surrealsim". In Blue Velvet he created a cinematic universe where all these strange occurances feel plausible. There are also a few outakes and the very interesting documentary Mysteries of Love which has been included in previous DVD releases. I enthusiastically recommend this film to anyone I meet who has not seen it yet.

Don't be manipulated by the arthouse drones, this is an excellent transfer, and reasonably priced.

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Cette édition de Blue Velvet ne contient aucun sous-titre ni doublage, en quelque langue que ce soit.

Bluray has amazing extras, the deleted scenes are a treat!

A must have for the Lynch fans. This is the only Lynch movie available for the people in India to own (bluray). The disc is perfect. Entirely uncut with all the fabulous extras.