From Twin Peaks to his films to his own recording career, the director understood how much sound mattered — not only to the ...

The popular 1963 version of "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton, a song Lynch previously said he never really liked, was the seed of inspiration for the movie's premise. "I started with the idea of ...

Taking its title from the classic Bobby Vinton song, Blue Velvet used one of Lynch’s favorite narrative tropes — the detective story — to follow a naive young man (Kyle MacLachlan ...

He has a point about tonal whiplash: The film opens with Bobby Vinton’s schmaltzy recording of the song “Blue Velvet” played over slow-motion scenes of quaint Americana before the camera ...

The camera pans down on a white-picket fence, as Bobby Vinton croons his 1963 version ... “I didn’t like the song ‘Blue Velvet,'” Lynch said in his 2018 hybrid biography/memoir Room ...

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. Taking its ...

With the demise of the legendary filmmaker David Lynch, there has been renewed interest in his past works, especially Blue Velvet, which is often considered one of his best. Released on September ...