WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A special screening to honor a visionary director’s legacy is being held this Friday at 7 p.m. The Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts is presenting ‘Blue ...

The studio, which was completed in 1984, was part of the North Carolina Film Corporation. A year earlier, "Firestarter" was ...

Most movies made in Wilmington are fair to middling in terms of quality. But a few stand out for being memorably good or ...

Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.The actress recalled this week that the University of California, Los Angeles, refused to grant her a leave of absence to ...

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The hour-long film is plenty weird, and while it provides some good behind-the-scenes footage from the "Blue Velvet" shoot, it's also a time capsule of mid-1980s downtown Wilmington.

Isabella Rossellini, left, plays a masochistic nightclub singer in ‘Blue Velvet,’ directed by David Lynch, right. The 1986 movie was filmed in North Carolina.

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just ...

The film also had a far-reaching cinematic legacy. Lynch's career has never escaped the shadow of "Blue Velvet" - films like "Wild at Heart", "Lost Highway", and "Mulholland Drive" have just ...

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...