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 ...
Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.
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 ...
Working daily as part of what he called his "art life," Lynch summoned forces that he would translate to the silver screen.
The famously weird filmmaker set his 1986 movie in Lumberton, with many modifications, and filmed in Wilmington during its ...
With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' ...