Released on September 19, 1986, the film starred Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, and Hope Lange in prominent roles. The plot of Blue Velvet follows a young man ...

The famously weird filmmaker set his 1986 movie in Lumberton, with many modifications, and filmed in Wilmington during its ...

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) remains one of the most divisive ... with ties to the gangster Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). The movie was banned by the New Brunswick Film Classification Board ...

Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” requires some initial audience disorientation. Mistake? If so, why do we miss David Lynch so ...

Juli Leonard File photo The state is still full of people who contributed a piece of “Blue Velvet,” adding to its crazy quilt. “I think it was the first real movie filmed at the De ...

David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker known for “Twin Peaks” and “The Elephant Man,” was an artist in more than one sense of the word. He was an experimental rocker and sound designer whose ...

The late director’s unique vision and the love that his persona inspires make it easy to forget how winding his path to ...

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive ... and became the most talked-about movie of 1986. That one-of-a-kindness may have won plaudits, but ...

He first broke into the movie scene in 1977 when he turned ... Award nominations for best director, followed by "Blue Velvet" in 1986 and "Mulholland Drive" in 2001, the latter also earning ...

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the ... film's DVD releases.) The movie shot over the course of about 12 weeks in late 1985 and early 1986, using ...