Blue Velvet

(1986) dir David Lynch w/Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell [120 min; DCP]
In BLUE VELVET, Lynch paints a powerfully disturbing portrait of the depravity lurking below the surface of a normal American town. When a naïve young man (MacLachlan) returns to his hometown, he becomes fascinated with a nightclub singer with a dark secret (Rossellini) and runs afoul of her psychotic ‘boyfriend,’ Frank (Hopper).