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 ...

“Blue Velvet,” the movie that I still think is Lynch’s greatest masterpiece, followed “Dune” by emerging directly out of the unsettling depths of his imagination. It’s almost ...

“The thing is, he really believes in that,” I remember a friend saying as we mulled over Blue Velvet, in one of the surely infinite number of fervid conversations that movie has inspire ...

Blue Velvet, often widely regarded as one of David ... Interested viewers can currently find the movie streaming on various platforms, such as Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Fandango at ...

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.