Fresh-faced Kyle MacLachlan discovers a severed ear in the grass and meets nightclub singer Isabella Rossellini, uncovering the dark, increasingly perverse underbelly of Lumberton, USA. With its dreamlike imagery, sinuous noir plotting, and a truly uninhibited performance by Dennis Hopper, this is one of the defining American arthouse films of the 1980s.
Blue Velvet
1986, 120m, DCP, U.S.
Part of the program
A film by David Lynch
Starring Isabella Rossellini Kyle MacLachlan Dennis Hopper Laura Dern Dean Stockwell Brad Dourif Jack Nance Hope Lange
Cinematography by Frederick Elmes
Music by Angelo Badalamenti