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| Apr 16, 2009associatedcontent.com
Things get weird when Frank Booth enters the picture.....The story of Blue Velvet follows a surprisingly simple set-up:.... ... Full Review
| Mar 25, 2009associatedcontent.com
most cult films are bad..... ... Full Review
| Mar 05, 2009associatedcontent.com
Blue Velvet is the bad trip you nevertheless need to take.....he's well-known for creating weird, artistic visuals and films that leave a person with a foreboding sense of doom..... ... Full Review
| Feb 22, 2009associatedcontent.com
100 Best Movies of All Time Review:....It is David Lynch's greatest masterpiece, 'Blue Velvet'.....The 80's was an era full of classic teen comedies, National Lampoons films, and futuristic thrillers.....Lych's use of classic songs like 'Blue Velvet' and Roy Orbison's 'In Dreams' makes climactic sequences in the film even more surreal and scary..... ... Full Review
| Jun 03, 2008DVD Talk
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.
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| Jun 05, 2007Village Voice
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
| Jul 14, 2006Movies into Film.com
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
| Jun 14, 2006thephoenix.com
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.
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| Jun 14, 2006thephoenix.com
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.
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| Jun 14, 2006thephoenix.com
This one actually has the surface appearance of a normal movie albeit a severely warped one.
Blue Velvet has just enough story for viewers to convince themselves theyre watching a rational movie: a cracked, kinky, coming-of-age thriller about a boy who gives in to lust and gets caught into a vortex of strange criminality.
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