Title: Blue velvet
First published: 1997
Description: "For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mysteriously symbolic and subterranean 'cult' movie that nevertheless has recognisable stars and was broadly distributed; a genre piece with the ambience of a fearsome, hyper-composed nightmare; an American 'art film' by Hollywood's only reputable 'art film' director. Michael Atkinson s intricate and layered reading of the film shows how crystallises many of Lynch s chief preoccupations: the evil and violence underlying the surface of suburbia, the seedy by-ways of sexuality, the frightening appearance of the adult world to a child's eyes, presenting it as the definitive expression of the traumatized innocence which characterizes Lynch's work."--
Subjects: Blue velvet (Motion picture), Motion pictures, History, Motion picture plays, History and criticism, Film & Media, British Film Institute (Film & Media), Hollywood Cinema (Film & Media), Horror (Film & Media), Film Directors (Film & Media), Films, cinema
LC classification: PN1997.B6783 A84 1997