David Lynch answered the call with Blue Velvet. Lynch was an unlikely saviour. He'd made his breakthrough in 1977 with Eraserhead, a deeply disturbing, surreal nightmare of a movie. It was a cult ...

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) remains one of the most divisive and influential films in American cinema, drawing praise for its daring narrative and stylistic boldness while simultaneously ...

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 ...

The movie was panned by critics when it opened in 1984 and seemed likely to bring a sudden end to Lynch’s meteoric rise, only for him to be redeemed by his fourth feature, Blue Velvet.

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 ...