Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019].
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
ISBN
9781681435855, 1681435853
Notes
General Note
Title and credits from screen.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.
General Note
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director David Lynch; Alternate original 2.0 surround soundtrack; The Lost Footage, fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by Lynch; "Blue Velvet" Revisited, a feature-length meditation on the making of the movie by Peter Braatz, filmed on-set during the production; Mysteries of Love, a seventy-minute documentary from 2002 on the making of the film; Interview from 2017 with composer Angelo Badalamenti; It's a Strange World: the Filming of "Blue Velvet," a 2019 documentary featuring interviews with crew members and visits to the shooting locations; Lynch reading from Room to Dream, a 2018 book he coauthored with Kristine McKenna; Excerpts by McKenna from Room to Dream
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Frederick Elmes ; production designer, Patricia Norris ; editor, Duwayne Dunham ; music, Angelo Badalamenti.
Participants/Performers
Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Priscilla Pointer, George Dickerson, Dean Stockwell, Francis Bay, Ken Stovitz, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance.
Description
"Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)--and facing the fury of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to keep Dorothy in his grasp. With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the more influential American films of the past few decades"--Container
Target Audience
MPAA rating: R.
System Details
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, 2.0 surround.
Language
English dialogue with optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).