Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)—and facing the fury of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to keep Dorothy in his grasp. With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the most influential American films of the late twentieth century.
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- The Lost Footage, fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by Lynch
- “Blue Velvet” Revisited, a feature-length meditation on the making of the film by Peter Braatz, filmed on-set during the production
- Mysteries of Love, a seventy-minute documentary from 2002 on the making of the film
- Interview from 2017 with composer Angelo Badalamenti
- It’s a Strange World: The Filming of “Blue Velvet,” a 2019 documentary featuring interviews with crew members and visits to the shooting locations
- Lynch reading from Room to Dream, a 2018 book he coauthored with Kristine McKenna
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The 5.1 surround soundtrack was created in 2008 by Lynch and recording mixer Dean Hurley at Lynch's own Asymmetrical Studio in Los Angeles. It was made from the original-source 35 mm magnetic-stock stems, which were limited to an LtRt music-and-effects mix as well as monaural dialogue, music, and effects stem sources. The decoded original music-and-effects mix of the film became the foundation for the new LCR image of the mix, utilizing the mono dialogue stem for the discrete center-channel source as well as phase-aligned mono music-and-effects stems as units for selective low-frequency enhancement and light ambient surround imaging. At the same time, the original Dolby Stereo, full-coat mag-stock printmaster of the film was referenced at all times during the creation of the new mix for the consistent balance, color, and saturation characteristics. The alternate 2.0 surround soundtrack was mastered from this element as well. Please be sure to enable Dolby Pro Logic decoding on your receiver to properly play the Dolby 2.0 surround soundtrack.