Blue Velvet (35mm)

1986 / 121 min / R18 Violence, sexual violence & offensive language
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper

Three decades after its initial release, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet has lost none of its power to derange, terrify, and exhilarate.

Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a college-age amateur sleuth bedecked in New Wave–ish skinny ties and boxy blazers finds an ear in a field, determining to whom it was once attached is just one part of a gruesome mystery he tries to solve.

Part of the mystery involves one of cinemas greatest creations the nitrous-oxide-huffing sociopath Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).

Blue Velvet is about how America is an idea, a surface, an indistinct image. It’s about the simple ways we can corrupt that image for personal gain. It’s perhaps Lynch’s most trenchant and political film, a film that says we’re all evil in some aspect or another, a surreal-creepy-funny privilege to view .

Witness the beauty in a rare 35mm print only at Hollywood Avondale.