Blue Velvet (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Kyle MacLachlan
Jeffrey Beaumont
Isabella Rossellini
Dorothy Vallens
Laura Dern
Sandy Williams
Dennis Hopper
Frank Booth
Hope Lange
Mrs. Williams
Dean Stockwell
Ben
George Dickerson
Detective Williams
Priscilla Pointer
Mrs. Beaumont
Frances Bay
Aunt Barbara
Jack Harvey
Mr. Beaumont
Ken Stovitz
Mike
Brad Dourif
Raymond
Jack Nance
Paul
J. Michael Hunter
Hunter
Dick Green
Don Vallens
Fred Pickler
Yellow Man
Philip Markert
Dr. Gynde
Leonard Watkins
Double Ed
Moses Gibson
Double Ed
Selden Smith
Nurse Cindy
Peter Carew
Coroner
Jon Jon Snipes
Little Donny
Angelo Badalamenti
Piano Player / Music
Jean-Pierre Viale
Master of Ceremonies
Donald Moore
Desk Sergeant
A. Michelle Depland
Party Girl
Michelle Sasser
Party Girl
Katie Reid
Party Girl
Fred C. Caruso
Producer / Production Manager
Pat Golden
Casting
Duwayne Dunham
Editor
David Lynch
Director / Screenplay
Johanna Ray
Casting
Edward 'Tantar' LeViseur
Set Decoration
Richard A. Roth
Executive Producer
Patricia Norris
Production Design
Frederick Elmes
Director of Photography
Alan Splet
Sound Designer
Jeff Goodwin
Makeup Supervisor
Ann Kroeber
Sound Mixer
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 19, 1986
StatusReleased
Running Time2h
Content RatingR
Budget$6,000,000
Box Office$8,636,706
Filming LocationsNorth Carolina, United States
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Wiki.
Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. Blending psychological horror with film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name. The film concerns a young college student who, returning home to visit his ill father, discovers a severed human ear in a field. The ear then leads him to uncover a vast criminal conspiracy, and enter into a romantic relationship with a troubled lounge singer.
The screenplay of Blue Velvet had been passed around multiple times in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with several major studios declining it due to its strong sexual and violent content.:β126β After the failure of his 1984 film Dune, Lynch made attempts at developing a more "personal story", somewhat characteristic of the surrealist style displayed in his first film Eraserhead (1977). The independent studio De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, owned at the time by Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, agreed to finance and produce the film.
Blue Velvet initially received a divided critical response, with many stating that its explicit content served little artistic purpose. Nevertheless, the film earned Lynch his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, and received the year's Best Film and Best Director prizes from the National Society of Film Critics. It came to achieve cult status. As an example of a director casting against the norm, it was credited for revitalizing Hopper's career and for providing Rossellini with a dramatic outlet beyond her previous work as a fashion model and a cosmetics spokeswoman. In the years since, the film has been re-evaluated, and it is now widely regarded as one of Lynch's major works and one of the greatest films of the 1980s. Publications including Sight & Sound, Time, Entertainment Weekly and BBC Magazine have ranked it among the greatest American films ever. In 2008, it was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest mystery films ever made.