Blue Velvet

Not a feel good movie, but a mish mash of a color film noir wanna be and the a carnival side show... Shows how the seemingly good on a surface can hide the rotten under side of life... Everything seems disjointed... Full review

David Lynch\\'s brilliant "Blue Velvet" is one of the best films ever made. On top of being completely enthralling and totally bizarre, it\\'s also a real human story, acted with power. The finest performance is from Isabella Rossellini, who was nominated... Full review

It depends what mood I\\'m in when I watch a David Lynch film, well most of them anyway. Blue Velvet does not seem too over the top, of course with Lynch at the helm it has it\\'s moments but most of... Full review

That is the way I can describe this movie, I can\\'t think of any other way to describe it. It is a work of art, David Lynch made such an amazing movie. It\\'s truly amazing watching it unfold, and the stand... Full review

This has always been a unique crime movie, like no story I have seen before or since. In numerous ways, it's a sick film...but utterly fascinating, even after a handful of viewings. It's a certainly a trademark of director David... Full review

Title: Blue Velvet (1986)Director: David Lynch Cast: Isabella Rosellini, Kyle Mac Lachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern Review: David Lynch films are paintings come to life, this has very much to do with the fact that Lynch himself is a painter... Full review

In the early moments of "Blue Velvet" we see idealized small town images - blooming red roses and immaculate white picket fences - accompanied by the sounds of the gentle Bobby Vinton pop tune that gives the film its title.... Full review

The sexual revolution in film came some ten years after the label's coinage in the late Sixties. It probably began with Last Tango in Paris. Directed by the acclaimed Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango is notorious for a sex scene involving... Full review

This is an absloutely great movie from one of the best directors out there today. Very bizarre, but still intiguing in being so bizarre. Though it may be the most plain of Lynch\\'s other than "The Straight Story" it still emerges... Full review

Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his small town home when his father has an accident and ends up in hospital. A quiet walk home changes his perceptions forever when he discovers a human ear in the long grass. He reports it... Full review

Over the years, I had heard tell of Diva 's immense reputation, and though at first my reaction was, "Oh, that movie, that's terrible," as time has worn on, my curiosity was piqued. It is not the horrible film I thought it was at fifteen, nor is it the untouchable classic others would have me believe. ... Full Review

If David Lynch's Blue Velvet -the 1986 landmark of film noir-bizarre-can officially claim the status of cult classic, then Brooklyn artist Christian Tomaszewski has become its high priest, leading the devoted to worship at shrines he's created in Poland, Germany, and Queens. ... Full Review

Exactly one month ago, when the revival was in Boston, Peter Keough wrote in the Phoenix , "Having watched Blue Velvet a dozen or more times, and being a film critic, I can be more reflective during some of its more outrageous and harrowing moments. ... Full Review

That fear, that something in the air, was translated into gnawing, comic anxiety - the suspended-in-midair queasiness - that is the operative mood of Eraserhead and also figures into Blue Velvet . In Blue Velvet , those hidden forces erupt most memorably in Dennis Hopper's Frank, a furious psychopath who acts his sexual sickness on the masochistic Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini) and also takes the hero, Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan), on a bizarre, terrifying "joyride. ... Full Review

That fear, that something in the air, was translated into gnawing, comic anxiety the suspended-in-midair queasiness that is the operative mood of Eraserhead and also figures into Blue Velvet . In Blue Velvet , those hidden forces erupt most memorably in Dennis Hoppers Frank, a furious psychopath who acts his sexual sickness on the masochistic Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini) and also takes the hero, Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan), on a bizarre, terrifying joyride. ... Full Review

When one thinks of iconoclastic moviemaker David Lynch ( Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. ), nightmarish, surreal images surely jump to mind. Lynch's latest project, however, spotlights real, everyday folks who probably wouldn't seem out of place in The Straight Story... ... Full Article

SKYLINE BOUNTY: Jonathan McDowell of Blue Velvet restaurant harvests lavender from 10-story-high terraced beds. (Betty Hallock / Los Angeles Times) Ten stories above downtown, standing in relief against the sky and a mural of the Statue of Liberty painted on... ... Full Article

As the week draws to a close and weekend plans start to coalesce, here are some spankin' new restaurants where the paint is barely dry, the dishes have been used only a few times, the stainless kitchen equipment still lustrous,... ... Full Article

"Love is not some kind of victory march," Leonard Cohen intoned Tuesday while performing his classic song "Hallelujah." But for Cohen, who has been away from the touring circuit since 1993, his first of two sold-out concerts at the Chicago... ... Full Article

I've always loved cheese. As a child, I was happy with a slice of who knows what between two slices of dry Wonder Bread. I was the first person in line at the school cafeteria for grilled cheese sandwiches. ... Full Article

Italian actress ISABELLA ROSSELLINI has called for a complete makeover in cosmetics advertising, insisting she has no desire to see a young model promoting wrinkle cream. ... Full Article