Blue Velvet (Special Edition)

Starring:Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Jack Harvey (III), Ken Stovitz, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance, J. Michael Hunter, Dick Green, Fred Pickler, Philip Markert, Leonard Watkins, Moses Gibson, Selden Smith
Director: David Lynch
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker

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A classic........2007-06-30

Anyone who has ever lived in a small community where normality is assumed probably also suspects that beneath the surface of everyday life lurk malevolent happenings. Blue Velvet is about the moral rot underlying the seemingly hopeful and idealistic American Dream.

Blue Velvet explores the dark side of human relationships built upon power and perversion. This film, written and directed by one of my favourite directors, David Lynch (cutl classic Eraserhead, 2001's greatest Muholland Drive, masterful The Elphant Man and the dark and unsettling Lost Highway), is one of the most hallucinatory, interesting movies ever released in the history of cinema. It elicited a wildly divergent critical and commercial response upon its release ranging from laudatory praise to complete damnation. It is not a movie for everyone. Those who savor exotic experiences are sure to find it both frenzied and exhilarating. I found it the later, Blue Velvet is a visually stunning film, it has beautiful, haunting and unforgettable images, and dark nightmarish scenes, some of which, will propably never leave my mind, and a film that can manage to accomplish that certainly deserves my praise.

The performances are exceptional, and brutally honest, especially the ones that come from the leading man Kyle MacLachlan. All of the actors seemed to fit their characters perfectly, especially Dennis Hooper, who is terrifyingly abnormal and pure evil as one of the best cinema villains to grace the screen. Laura Dern and Isabella Rossellini are both among the top notch, exceptional cast.

What is so stunning about Blue Velvet is its visual appeal. Laced with arresting beautiful and horrfying images that range from realistic and surreal. The music on the soundtrack demonstrates the eerie effects of many songs (including Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", which is lip-synchs in a disturbing way), which can transport us and have great impact on us, into realms of nostalgia and fantasy. And what is so scary about this film is that despite its heavy dosages of surrealism and fantasy, the film is very real. This kind of underworld could exist absolutely anywhere, and was is evern more chilling is that it already does.

Despite its inferior imitations and stylistic features that have been borrowed, stolen and reused over and over again (Blue Velvet's visual feel can be seen in American Beauty, Lantana etc.), the film will remain the pinnacle of them all. Blue Velvet is a stunner. Daring, beautiful, horrifying, exhilarating, influential, bold and simply amazing, worthy of a ten out of ten.

A technical masterpiece; abhorrent Lynch message........2007-06-18

On one hand, Blue Velvet is a brilliant channeling of Nicholas Ray, it displays a stunning use of Cinemascope and Dolby Stereo, and is the cresting wave of Lynch's technique that he developed with Eraserhead. But for all of its technical glory, it is also a disgusting concoction of a film that takes the Sam Fuller moral universe to its repulsive denoument.

Lynch creates some incredibly humiliating and violent scenes. He reveals human beings at their most horriffic, abusive, and vulnerable. For this alone, Blue Velvet is quite amazing and certainly unique in the annals of American film. But Lynch shows almost no ability to counteract this with any semblance of structure or decency. In fact, the only characters in the movie who might signify compassion are treated as dupes, turncoats, or ignorami.

I had the experience of seeing Blue Velvet many years ago at a screening where cinematographer Frederic Elmes spoke. I was about 16 at the time and I could not believe that during the entire film a group of hipster kids were laughing hysterically. I mean, laughing at a brutalized, raped woman standing on a lawn, delusioned into thinking she has found a kindred spirit from her nightmarish life. It was simply awful -- because here was a film that I had been so mesmerized with, found it so powerful, only to have it mocked by these obnoxious jerks. I wound up getting into an argument with them at the screening -- Elmes was there, it was bad.

But there are simply laughably awful things in Blue Velvet. Like the bird. The last shot with Dorothy. It has to be a mockery of Judeo-Christian middle-American values. Or is it?

The more I watch Blue Velvet, particularly in light of Lynch's subsequent films, the more it becomes apparent that he is frequently inept at conveying any meaningful message. After the monomaniacal, relatively simplistic tour-de-force of The Elephant Man, he has lapsed into the worst kind of cornball sentimentalizing (The Straight Story). Does Lynch want his characters to be laughed at hysterically for being stripped naked, raped brutally? Maybe he doesn't care, it's hard to tell. Blue Velvet is extremely confused about what it wants to say. That would be one thing if it were simply an art film, but this film depicts such shocking inhumanity, I find the lack of focus disturbing. Frank is nothing short of a homicidal maniac -- these people really exist in the world. Lynch gets the visceral cinematic payoffs of violence, but he does nothing to countermand them. If that isn't exploitative I don't know what is.

if you havent seen this yet, give yourself a gift........2007-04-30

i can say various things about why i love this movie, but most importantly i think is the hitchcock-esque atmoshpere and the dark alien underworld alongside the innocent down to earth relationship between kyle's and laura's characters play a lot on how a person will view the film. lets say this...if you enjoy movies like pulp fiction, big lebowski, and rear window, lynch is really a treat..especially here. i mean, i personally felt like i was in the character, Jeffrey's shoes the whole time.

i dont know how some folks dislike this film, but im not going to argue since that is their opinion...just give it a viewing iif you never saw it. at least once.

Nice to see Dennis Hopper up and around.......2007-04-26

another ego Lynch mess. How he became so avante guard is beyond me. Isabella is beautiful, Laura Dern looks like a bannana, Kyle is ok, Dennis is convincing as the impotent thug who kidnapped Izzy's baby in order to get her to do things to him, couldn't he have hired a hooker? Usual Lynch mess, try to figure out who's who, after a while you just don't care. At least I didn't. Don't bother.

Dissappointing.......2007-04-09

This movie wasn't near as disturbing as I had hoped. I was actually bored during quite a few scenes. It would have been better if I hadn't expected so much, from reading all sorts of reviews. I'm actually watching the end of it right now while I'm writing this review, that's how interested I am. lol Oh, well.

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A classic.
A technical masterpiece; abhorrent Lynch message.
if you havent seen this yet, give yourself a gift.
Nice to see Dennis Hopper up and around
Dissappointing

Blue Velvet
Starring: Isabella Rossellini , Kyle MacLachlan , Dennis Hopper , Laura Dern , and Hope Lange
Director: David Lynch
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Customer Reviews:

A classic........2007-06-30

A technical masterpiece; abhorrent Lynch message........2007-06-18

if you havent seen this yet, give yourself a gift........2007-04-30

Nice to see Dennis Hopper up and around.......2007-04-26

Dissappointing.......2007-04-09

Charlie Rose with Hunter S. Thompson; Isabella Rossellini (June 13, 1997)

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Charlie Rose with Hunter S. Thompson; Isabella Rossellini (June 13, 1997)

Manufacturer: Charlie Rose
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Charlie Rose with Richard Holbrooke; Stephen Daldry; Hunter S. Thompson (February 6, 2003)
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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

ASIN: B000IU35BI
Release Date: 2006-09-18

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Charlie speaks to writer Hunter S. Thompson about the thousands of letters he has written in his lifetime, and his book that chronicles them called, The Proud Highway. Also, actress Isabella Rossellini talks about her film-loving family and her new book entitled, Some of Me. Rossellini is the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.

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Longer it is more palatable but less good.
Dear god what will it take??
Collectible, but too long.
Duna - Import
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Dune Extended Edition [Duna Import]
Starring: Sting
Director: David Lynch/Alan Smithee
Manufacturer: Versatil
ProductGroup: DVD
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David Lynchs baroque rendering of Frank Herberts detailed, complex, and deliberately paced epic science-fiction novel is a muddled but visually stunning affair. It's 10991, and the desert planet Dune has been taken over by the Harkonnens, oppressive conquerors who desire the precious spice that lies beneath Dune's arid sands. The story concerns the attempts of a young warrior messiah, Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan), to lead the native inhabitants in an uprising against the evil empire--and battle the giant man-eating worms that guard the coveted spice. Lynch shot much more footage than ended up in the finished film, but executive producer Dino De Laurentiis didn't want a three-hour-plus sci-fi epic on his hands, so he coerced Lynch into trimming it. The result is one of cinemas most infamous cases of personal vision colliding with studio politics. Nonetheless, Lynch still manages to cram in so many visual ideas and captures the tone of the book so well that these production issues can be easily set aside once the story starts rolling. Refusing to further edit the film for television, Lynch took his name off the director and screenwriter credits. As troubling as DUNE might have been for Lynch, the experience greatly inspired 1986s brilliant BLUE VELVET, for which audiences should be thankful. DUNE - EXTENDED VERSION With additional 40-minute footage. - - - - - - - BRAZILIAN RELEASE. - - AUDIO: English - - ARTWORK: Portuguese

Customer Reviews:

Longer it is more palatable but less good........2007-01-10

Dune has always been a fascinating novel. The first film by David Lynch was a great moment in science fiction and the beginning of a brilliant career for Sting as an actor. David Lynch looked for extreme situations and extreme scenes to more than shock people, to horrify them with the Harkonnens, to stupefy them with Duke Leto or his concubine, to villify the Emperor, and to satisfy and terrify the public with Paul Muabdib. The beauty and the force of the film came from these different approaches and profiles put together and coming to a final and terminating fight announcing a complete regeneration of the world like rain in a desert. Then there was the TV series by John Harrison, slow and long but very right about the Fremens and their life, with plenty of visual details. We had jumped from more than two hours to more than four hours. The Ultimate Edition of the Film proposes in three DVDs the first version of the film and a second version in two parts coming to three hours or so. This longer version of the film could be expected to keep the main characteristics of the shorter version. You are mistaken. First some shots are repeated several times as if similar shots in similar situations and places would have been too expensive to shoot separately or simply again under s different angle, knowing that two places and two situations that are identical get some semiotic meaning from this very repetition which is far from being the case here. Second some cuts are introduced here and there to liberate time for the additions there and here. The life of the Harkonnens on their planet is thus amputated of some segments that were very important to characterize them as horrifyingly inhuman and cruel, and what's more the homosexual nature of the Baron is nicely reduced particularly in that shocking scene where he unplugs the heart of a young man in order to wash his skin disease in this dying young man's blood shooting out of his chest. This gave the real nature of the Baron some kind of gay vampiristic cannibalistic monster. Apparently that had become politically incorrect within a few years. Or did the first version of the film have such a great, or small, success that they tried to make a longer version targeting a wider public, hence that had to be slightly curbed in its most explicit scenes concerning man's cruelty, and eventually his sexuality ? This is surprising that David Lynch in this edition covers this longer version that is not directed by him, with his interview in the third DVD, an interview given by David Lynch at the time of the first shorter version. The DVD is yet extremely interesting because of the bringing together of the two film-versions and quite a few resources. Yet there remains one question as for why no one has ever tried to shoot the next volumes of the Dune saga which is still going on with the volumes anterior to Dune itself written by Frank Herbert's son. In fact this world is more political science fiction about the 21st century than about the sixth or seventh millenia. Or is it universal ?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Dear god what will it take??.......2005-12-06

I got this version and it's nice to see extra footage, but I agree that it is not as good as the theatrical release. What will it take to see the WHOLE thing as David Lynch intended it when he filmed so much and was forced to cut it down. Obviously the film is still in existence, so what's the problem?? Many other directors have gone back like Cameron with The Abyss and put the entire piece back together so now it makes sense. C'mon people - it's all about money and there's lots of us who would pay to see the entire thing as Lynch envisioned it from start to finish. Am I wrong?? I'm old enough to remember the pre-showing that DID have the entire 3+ hour movie limited to one weekend in NY and I missed it but my friends DID see it and thought it was amazing. Then it was pulled and it took a year before it finally came out in the theaters.

Collectible, but too long........2005-09-22

I understand why David Lynch took his name off. The pace is just too slow. As a fan of Dune, I appreciate the extra content from the book that was missing from the theatrical release. I appreciate this version as a collector, but I feel the 2001 version of Dune was a better movie.

Duna - Import.......2005-09-13

This film is an attempt to put The Book -- Dune to film. I felt that it falls short of the production made by the Science Fiction Channel. It was also fairly expensive for what you get. I enjoyed viewing it, but it's not the kind of film you would watch more than once a year.

Bad copy from this seller - no help on a return.......2005-09-02

Bad copy - unusable - no help from seller. Don't buy from here!

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A classic.
A technical masterpiece; abhorrent Lynch message.
if you havent seen this yet, give yourself a gift.
Nice to see Dennis Hopper up and around
Dissappointing

Blue Velvet [Region 2]
Starring: Isabella Rossellini , Kyle MacLachlan , Dennis Hopper , Laura Dern , and Hope Lange
Director: David Lynch
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Customer Reviews:

A classic........2007-06-30

A technical masterpiece; abhorrent Lynch message........2007-06-18

if you havent seen this yet, give yourself a gift........2007-04-30

Nice to see Dennis Hopper up and around.......2007-04-26

Dissappointing.......2007-04-09

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A classic.
A technical masterpiece; abhorrent Lynch message.
if you havent seen this yet, give yourself a gift.
Nice to see Dennis Hopper up and around
Dissappointing

Blue Velvet [Region 2]
Starring: Isabella Rossellini , Kyle MacLachlan , Dennis Hopper , Laura Dern , and Hope Lange
Director: David Lynch
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Customer Reviews:

A classic........2007-06-30

A technical masterpiece; abhorrent Lynch message........2007-06-18

if you havent seen this yet, give yourself a gift........2007-04-30

Nice to see Dennis Hopper up and around.......2007-04-26

Dissappointing.......2007-04-09

Lost Highway DVD (Pan and Scan Version) and CD Soundtrack (2 Pack)

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you don't have to understand it all
This may hurt a little, but its something you'll get used to.
weird movie wonder

Lost Highway DVD (Pan and Scan Version) and CD Soundtrack (2 Pack)

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Haunting sexuality, ricochet action and fleeting, murderous shadows await you on a journey that begins and ends on the Lost Highway. The successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks... The man in black who threatens to expose him... The young mechanic with links to a powerful mobster... The mobster's moll who knows what she wants and the people who can get it for her. These are the riders on the Lost Highway, trapped in their worlds of desire, destiny, and unknown destination, where the truth is always just a short way further down the road. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake, Balthazar Getty and Robert Loggia star in a powerful, sensual and extraordinary movie from the director of "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet": David Lynch.

Customer Reviews:

you don't have to understand it all.......2006-03-27

David Lynch has said that Hollywood movies are too concerned with the audience always knowing what is happening at all times. He's right. Life isn't like that. Everyday you see interesting and sometimes odd (sometimes bizzare) things happening and don't really understand what it was you just witnessed. You hear snigglets of conversation and wish you had all of the details...sometimes you get more details but are still left with questions that will never be answered. Lynch sometimes reflects this in his work. Lost Highway probably more so than any other movie of his. The scenes are incredible and there is (I believe) an explanation to it all...sometimes I can almost figure it out...but in the end I'm left with some questions. But it doesn't matter, because the ride is so scenic and enjoyable that I'm not really hung up on the destination. Lynch said he had OJ Simpson on his mind while writing this movie...so keep that in mind. Sometimes we see the world as we want to see it and not how it really is...sometimes we live in a delusional world. My friend just got divorced and she admitted to me that she honestly wasnt as happy as she had convinced herself she was while she was married. The way she saw her world while married was much different than the way it really was. And sometimes when a person who has been living in a delusional reality is confronted with things the way they really are, they can't accept it and either end up in therapy or in a white bronco riding slowly along some lost highway.

This may hurt a little, but its something you'll get used to........2005-11-27

It is worth twice what they are asking for it. Buy this film. You probably won't get it all on the first viewing, so you'll want to watch it multiple times. This is the film that turned me on to the twisted world of David Lynch. This film is a rare gem and is very difficult to find on DVD. While you are at it, buy Mulholland Drive as well.

weird movie wonder.......2005-09-27

This movie is really weird and good but its not worth the 30.00 or so dollars they want for it. go rent it!

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Blue Velvet
Starring: Isabella Rossellini , Kyle MacLachlan , Dennis Hopper , Laura Dern , and Hope Lange
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Lost Highway (2 DVD Special Edition) [Region 2 Import]

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This is the one to get

Lost Highway (2 DVD Special Edition) [Region 2 Import]
Director: David Lynch
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Interviews with David Lynch, Robert Loggia, Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette
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Audio: English Dolby 5.1 & English DTS 5.1

ASIN: B000KMHUYC

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Fred Madison has killed his wife Renee, but why does he not remember doing it? Why is Fred opposed to video cameras and what dies this have to do with Pete Dayton and his friend, the powerful gangster, Mr. Eddy? What is the meaning of the strange video tapes Fred and Renee receive every morning? The answers to the se questions may be discovered at the end of the Lost Highway... but is there and end?

Customer Reviews:

This is the one to get.......2006-12-19

Beautiful film, buy a region 2 DVD player if you dont have one, because you need to see this verson of the film. Dont settle for any other copy, I got it in France and it's a beautiful transfer. If you're a Lynch fan, a mystery fan (Man) or even a surrealist fan, get this now.

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Femme Fatale

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Femme Fatale

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