Blue Velvet (1986) is probably the last David Lynch film—apart from the atypical The Straight Story (1999)—that was at least more or less accessible to the general public. Taken at face value, it has ...

David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet is a masterpiece, one of the great achievements of cinema. But as the new Blu-ray suggests, making it involved getting the exact right balance of tone - 52 minutes ...

Even as originally released two decades before the movie, Bobby Vinton’s title song is a love ballad that you would hear in a nightmare (or “in dreams,” as another song in Blue Velvet would have it), ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "Blue Velvet" (1986) Norman Rockwell met Norman Bates in David Lynch’s shocker about an ether-huffing kidnapper (Dennis Hopper) ...

David Lynch’s 1986 classic Blue Velvet is surreal, stilted, and perverse, but it’s also the movie where his career began to make sense. Up to that point, there’d been no comprehensible pattern to ...