David Lynch’s masterpiece returns to theaters.
Hard to believe that David Lynch’s perversion opera-cum-noir BLUE VELVET is 30 years old this year.
It seems like only yesterday the film paralyzed me and opened doors to worlds I didn’t know existed, cinematically, sexually, sensually.
BLUE VELVET put Lynch back on the map, after the crushing defeat that was 1984s DUNE. The film took the weirdness that Lynch was experimenting with in his early short films, his 1978 industrial-strength shocker ERASERHEAD and the steampunk-tinted melancholy of his Mel Brooks-produced THE ELEPHANT MAN, into sharp, sickening focus and truly defined the style that he would exploit over the next three decades making movies and art. No BLUE VELVET? No TWIN PEAKS. And so on…
Now, in honor of its 30th anniversary, BLUE VELVET will return to screens beginning March 25th at the Film Forum in NYC for an initial one week engagement before opening across the US in select, soon-to-be-announced locations. The film will also have a run in the UK in the fall, again at locations TBA.
More information as we get it.
In the meantime, lose yourself in this lush 30th anniversary trailer…
