"Blue Velvet" remains a cult classic and somewhat controversial film from offbeat director David Lynch, and the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini, is correcting some of the negativity connected ...

It’s important to recall the place that “Blue Velvet,” in 1986, carved out for itself. Lynch, coming off “The Elephant Man,” had already done his oversize mainstream movie — the 1984 ...

Inside, film workers found a frozen snake. Blue Velvet’s director, David Lynch, was ecstatic. “David was saying, ‘Wow, we’ve gotta use it in the movie!’” said Bankson, who was the ...

Lynch had already made three films before Blue Velvet. But it was that fourth movie that really solidified what we think of today as “Lynchian.” So many themes and visual iconography that ...

Then he topped himself, and every other filmmaker of the time, with the film-noir-gone-mad genius of “Blue Velvet” (1986). Then came the dread-drenched soap opera of “Twin Peaks” (kicking ...

Despite that, "Dune" producer Dino De Laurentiis, who had recently built Wilmington's first film studio, agreed to bankroll "Blue Velvet" under the auspices of his De Laurentiis Entertainment ...

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 ...