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1. Diane - Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent
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2. University of Washington Alumni:
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3. Actors From Washington (U.s. State):
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4. Best Drama Actor Golden Globe
 
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5. People From Yakima, Washington:
 
6. Trigger Effect/Clv
7. TV Guide May 8, 2006 Evangeline
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8. Bon Appetit July 2009 The Barbecue
9. Blue Velvet [VHS Video]
10. Kyle MacLachlan
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13. DB07 BLUE VELVET David Lynch/KYLE
14. CW08 Blue Velvet Kyle MacLACHLAN/DAVID
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1. Diane - Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper
by Kyle MacLachlan
Audio Cassette: Pages (1990-10-01)
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Asin: 067173573X
Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Customer Reviews (5)

5-0 out of 5 stars Hugely entertaining
This a great and fun little tape (about 45 mins long). There's some bits and pieces from the series, but they're interwoven with things that weren't on the show. Definitely an amusing way to spend some time.

4-0 out of 5 stars Diane...
This was great to hear! But not all of the recordings made during the television show, pilot, or subsequent film are featured, so that was kind of a bummer.It is also obvious which recordings were in the show because the recording is much quieter than those staged for this tape.However worth it for the true Twin Peaks fan!

2-0 out of 5 stars collectors and completists only
This product, as another reviewer has said, is a somewhat short audio cassette which includes actual clips from the TV series of Cooper's personal recorder entries, along with a few additional recordings made for this release by Kyle McLaughlin in character. Unfortunately they are from only the short first season of the show. But for any Twin Peaks collector or completist, this at least is an official tie-in product.

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I believe one of the previous reviewers meant to comment on the book The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes by Scott Frost [one of the writers from the show], which is not the same as this product.

The book - if you can find a copy - is a witty and entertaining companion to the series. It covers Cooper's life from childhood [and his first audio recorder] through his FBI career [including the tragedies surrounding his partner Windom Earle], and finally ends where the TV series begins. It also manages to do what the cassette does not, which is to offer more insight and exploration into Cooper's character beyond what we already see in the show.

This, along with The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (A Twin Peaks Book) by Jennifer Lynch and the faux travelguide: Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town by David Lynch and Mark Frost, completes a set of official book companions to the series.

One last note: as with "The Secret Diary..." there are a few inconsistencies between the description of some events in the books versus the TV series and the film prequel "Fire Walk With Me", but not enough to detract from the book's value overall.

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3-0 out of 5 stars Excerpt from the series
This tape is a collection of 40 audio excerpts from the TV series of Agent Cooper talking to Diane in his audio recorder. This is not a book, nor an audiobook. If you've seen the series, you've heard much of it already

4-0 out of 5 stars Superb reading from an unlikely source
One may approach this book from the viewpoint that it is merely a cash in on the popular TV series. It is an original and fascinating read. The author constructs an exceptionally authentic history of Agent Dale Cooper.The book is funny, sad, original and will change your life. ... Read more


2. University of Washington Alumni: Minoru Yamasaki, Robert Zubrin, Frank Herbert, Bill Atkinson, Kyle Maclachlan, Gary Kildall, David Eddings
Paperback: 602 Pages (2010-09-15)
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Chapters: Minoru Yamasaki, Robert Zubrin, Frank Herbert, Bill Atkinson, Kyle Maclachlan, Gary Kildall, David Eddings, Leslie Groves, Ted Bundy, Dale Chihuly, Brad Fitzpatrick, John Lustig, Jeannette Rankin, Andrei Alexandrescu, Tom Lantos, Henry M. Jackson, Pappy Boyington, Christine Gregoire, Tim Lincecum, Madelyn Dunham, Pz Myers, Frances Farmer, William Foege, Michael Mcginn, Bruce P. Crandall, Kenny G, Martin Rodbell, Richard C. Mangrum, Archie Van Winkle, Edward Felten, Patrick Duffy, Robert W. Mcchesney, Eric Johnston, Beverly Cleary, James Caviezel, Heather Brooke, Gordon P. Saville, Sho Dozono, Fouad Ajami, Donald Bren, Jay Inslee, Rick Steves, Robert E. Galer, Nellie Quander, Fred Beckey, Tom Foley, Edmundo Pérez Yoma, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Grant Jones, Chuck Close, Kitty Kelley, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Harriet A. Hall, Bill Hosokawa, Jessamyn West, Lawney Reyes, Faith Ireland, P. T. Deutermann, Rainn Wilson, Tatsuji Suga, Daniel J. Evans, Kim Thayil, Bruce Harrell, James Wright, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, John Okada, Anna Faris, Jan Roskam, Eugene Webb, Edward Wagenknecht, Julia Sweeney, Ralph Anderson, William W. Momyer, Peter Rinearson, Larry Stone, Michael Forest, A. Quincy Jones, Lawrence James Beck, George Stigler, Bruce Bennett, Warren Magnuson, Chet Huntley, Brock Adams, Paul Thiry, William Bolcom, Michael Philip Anderson, Bob Wallace, Cody Pickett, Barbara Reskin, Robert G. Roeder, Wanda Tinasky, Norman D. Dicks, Mark Emmert, Danielle Lawrie, Ben Linder, Carolyn Kizer, Ann Rule, Steven Holl, Michael Hardt, Ed Viesturs, Phillip O. Foss, Gordon Hirabayashi, Pamela Reed, Anomie Belle, Joe Mallahan, Tim Hudak, Marilynne Robinson, Robert Eugene Bush, Imogen Cunningham, Rob Mckenna, Robert Osborne, Garret Dillahunt, Paul D. Maclean, Peter W. Chiarelli, John D. Hawk, George T. Babbitt, Jr., Hank Ketcham, Les Keiter, Jim Lambright, Mike Blowers, John Mckay, Melvyn Goldstein, Mark Prothero, Laurie Olin, Peter Adkison, D...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=143377 ... Read more


3. Actors From Washington (U.s. State): Kyle Maclachlan, Reiko Aylesworth, Frances Farmer, Rose Mcgowan, Cheyenne Jackson, Adam West
Paperback: 324 Pages (2010-09-15)
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Chapters: Kyle Maclachlan, Reiko Aylesworth, Frances Farmer, Rose Mcgowan, Cheyenne Jackson, Adam West, Darren Mcgavin, James Caviezel, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Steven Hill, Rainn Wilson, Barbara La Marr, Jean Smart, Jonathan Jackson, Jean Spangler, Bridget Hanley, Billy Burke, Josie Bissett, Jill Banner, Amanda Michalka, Janet Waldo, Alyson Michalka, Keye Luke, Craig T. Nelson, Pamela Reed, Susan Peters, Cam Gigandet, Garret Dillahunt, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kerwin Mathews, Ann Tyrrell, Janis Paige, John Aylward, Christopher Wiehl, Brian Haley, Connor Trinneer, Josephine Hutchinson, Bobby Hutchins, Shirley Mills, Kyle Secor, Quintin Sondergaard, Richard Karn, Peter Horton, Brian Thompson, Megyn Price, Bianca Kajlich, Art Gilmore, Lucille Lund, Trevor St. John, Diana Miller, Florence Deshon, Frank Alexander, Henri Lubatti, C.s. Lee, Jo Ann Sayers, Bryan and Denny Kirkwood, Cathryn Damon, Ron Pearson, Gertrude Messinger, Shirley Jean Rickert, Michele Morrow, Monte Rawlins, Mariana Klaveno, Chief Yowlachie, Ysabel Maccloskey, Gale Page, Erin Dean, Willis Bouchey, Alma Bennett, Arthur Batanides, Maris Wrixon, Barbara Berjer, Crahan Denton, Helen Kleeb, Helen Page Camp, Jack Latham. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 322. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Reiko M. Aylesworth (born December 9, 1972) is an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her work on the television series 24 as Michelle Dessler. Aylesworth was born in Evanston, Illinois and is of Dutch, Welsh, and Japanese ancestry. She lived in Springfield, Illinois, from 1987 to 1988 where she first became interested in acting. After understudying in several productions of the Springfield Theatre Centre, Aylesworth was cast in the role of Consuelo in West Side Story, while her family was preparing to move to Seattl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1589646 ... Read more


4. Best Drama Actor Golden Globe (Television) Winners: James Stewart, Peter Falk, Scott Bakula, Kyle Maclachlan, Martin Sheen, Hugh Laurie
Paperback: 320 Pages (2010-09-15)
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Chapters: James Stewart, Peter Falk, Scott Bakula, Kyle Maclachlan, Martin Sheen, Hugh Laurie, Sam Waterston, Telly Savalas, Jon Hamm, Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Selleck, Don Johnson, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Blake, Edward Woodward, David Duchovny, Ron Perlman, Edward Asner, John Forsythe, Robert Young, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Edwards, Michael C. Hall, James Gandolfini, Dylan Mcdermott, Peter Graves, Anthony Lapaglia, David Caruso, Richard Chamberlain, Ian Mcshane, Michael Chiklis, Jimmy Smits, Richard Jordan, Ken Wahl, Dennis Franz, Richard Kiley, Mike Connors, Daniel J. Travanti. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 318. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 July 2, 1997) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star. He also had a noted military career, a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and AFI's 10 Top 10 lists. He is also the most represented leading actor on the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time list presented by Entertainment Weekly. As of 2007, ten of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Stewar...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16273 ... Read more


5. People From Yakima, Washington: Kyle Maclachlan, Robert Lucas, Jr., Sam Kinison, Tim Eyman, Raymond Carver, Phil Mahre, Barbara La Marr
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Chapters: Kyle Maclachlan, Robert Lucas, Jr., Sam Kinison, Tim Eyman, Raymond Carver, Phil Mahre, Barbara La Marr, Damon Huard, Thelma Johnson Streat, Kyle Parker, Todd Stottlemyre, Christopher Wiehl, Jake Sagare, Taylor Stubblefield, Jim Pomeroy, Steve Pelluer, Catherine Dean May, Christopher Dietzen, Monte Rawlins, Burke Riley, Dan Doornink, Cary Conklin, Jerry Houghton, Scott Pelluer, Seth Ingham. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 2000 · 2004 · 2008 Tim Eyman (born 1966) is a conservative political activist in the U.S. state of Washington. He is known for using initiatives and referenda to restrict state government, especially in the area of state taxes and fees. He has written 15 initiatives and one referendum. Eyman was adopted as a baby by his parents, Don and Dolores Eyman of Yakima, Washington, who also had a biological son and daughter. The family lived in the West Valley neighborhood of Yakima. He graduated in 1988 from Washington State University in Business, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and was on the wrestling team. He married, adopted two sons, and moved to Seattle. He lives and owns a small business in Mukilteo, Washington, selling fraternity and sorority-branded watches. Eyman is most well known for his ballot initiatives. Eyman launched his first initiative in 1997, Initiative 200. I-200 attempted to prohibit affirmative action in state higher education and government hiring and contracting. At first, Eyman had difficulty collecting the requisite signatures, 8% of the number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, to place the initiative on the ballot. He enlisted the help of local talk radio host John Carlson, who was able to collect enough signatures to place the initiative on the ballot. I...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=603518 ... Read more


6. Trigger Effect/Clv
by Kyle Maclachlan
 Laser Disc: Pages (1997-01-31)
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7. TV Guide May 8, 2006 Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway/Lost, Desperate Housewives, West Wing Farewell, Kyle MacLachlan, Stephen Collins, Prison Break, Lauren Holly/NCIS, Malcolm In the Middle
Single Issue Magazine: Pages (2006)

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8. Bon Appetit July 2009 The Barbecue BBQ Issue, A Globe-Trotter's Guide to BBQ, Around the World in 80 Dogs, Bar Cookies, Seoul Food, Cheeseburger Sliders, American Indian Pale Ales, Kyle Maclachlan
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9. Blue Velvet [VHS Video]
by David Lynch
VHS Tape: Pages (2000)

Isbn: 6305214824
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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VHS VIDEO! Blue Velvet! David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. --Sean AxmakerAmazon.com
David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker ... Read more

Customer Reviews (272)

3-0 out of 5 stars 1986
I thought this dark drama by David Lynch was worth renting...once. It has a dark humor to it. Star studded cast.

5-0 out of 5 stars Strange but great film
The film opens with artful visuals of a white picket fence, red roses planted beside the fence, and a clear blue sky.Red, white and blue--the symbols of a quiet, small, middle class town in America.A fire truck with a dalmation dog standing on its side slowly passes by.The town's name is Lumberton.Its state is not mentioned.This can be any place in America.But lurking in small town America, hidden in some grass, is someone's severed ear, being brutally attacked by insects.

The ear is discovered by college student Jeffrey Beaumont, well played by Kyle MacLachlin.Jeffrey is home from college because his father has suffered a stroke and been hospitalized.Up to this point, Jeffrey has been the product of small town Lumberton.He is naive and very inexperienced in the evil side of life.So is the young and pretty "teen angel," Sandy, as played by Laura Dern.Sandy is the daughter of the town's chief police detective.They meet, fall in love, and become involved in the investigation of the crime of the severed ear.

Jeffrey learns that the ear belongs to the husband of lounge singer, Dorothy Vallens, who together with their little son, have been abducted by an evil, psychopathic maniac, with the name of Frank Booth.Dennis Hopper gives an extremely frightening, over-the-top performance as Frank Booth.He is the ultimate villain of such hatefulness and repulsiveness, that one cannot stand to look at him.Ironically enough, Frank Booth clearly sends out signals of vile hatred whenever anyone should look at him.Dorothy is played by Isabella Rosselini, a beautiful, mysterious, and seemingly very masochistic femme fatale. Jeffrey has never experienced anyone like Dorothy and is instantly captivated. Dorothy also happens to be Frank Booth's sex-slave. Mesmerized by her, Jeffrey has become Dorothy's protector and lover.

"Blue Velvet" is a film of great magnetism and intensity.After the first few minutes of watching it, I was hooked.Together with its moments of extreme violence and sadism, as well as its brief moments of "comic relief" (particularly a couple of scenes with Dean Stockwell as Frank Booth's "suave" friend) "Blue Velvet," is one of my favorite all time films.At least in my opinion, it is also one of the truly great movies of the last third of the 20th century.

1-0 out of 5 stars "Blue Velvet" contains scenes of such raw emotional energy that it's easy to understand why some critics have hailed it as a
...masterpiece. A film this painful and wounding has to be given special consideration.

And yet those very scenes of stark sexual despair are the tipoff to what's wrong with the movie. They're so strong that they deserve to be in a movie that is sincere, honest and true. But "Blue Velvet" surrounds them with a story that's marred by sophomoric satire and cheap shots. The director is either denying the strength of his material or trying to defuse it by pretending it's all part of a campy in-joke.

The movie has two levels of reality. On one level, we're in Lumberton, a simple-minded small town where people talk in television cliches and seem to be clones of 1950s sitcom characters. On another level, we're told a story of sexual bondage, of how Isabella Rossellini's husband and son have been kidnapped by Dennis Hopper, who makes her his sexual slave. The twist is that the kidnapping taps into the woman's deepest feelings: She finds that she is a masochist who responds with great sexual passion to this situation.

Everyday town life is depicted with a deadpan irony; characters use lines with corny double meanings and solemnly recite platitudes.

Meanwhile, the darker story of sexual bondage is told absolutely on the level in cold-blooded realism.

The movie begins with a much praised sequence in which picket fences and flower beds establish a small-town idyll. Then a man collapses while watering the lawn, and a dog comes to drink from the hose that is still held in his unconscious grip. The great imagery continues as the camera burrows into the green lawn and finds hungry insects beneath - a metaphor for the surface and buried lives of the town.

The man's son, a college student (Kyle MacLachlan), comes home to visit his dad's bedside and resumes a romance with the daughter (Laura Dern) of the local police detective. MacLachlan finds a severed human ear in a field, and he and Dern get involved in trying to solve the mystery of the ear. The trail leads to a nightclub singer (Rossellini) who lives alone in a starkly furnished flat.

In a sequence that Hitchcock would have been proud of, MacLachlan hides himself in Rossellini's closet and watches, shocked, as she has a sadomashochistic sexual encounter with Hopper, a drug-sniffing pervert.

Hopper leaves. Rossellini discovers MacLachlan in the closet and, to his astonishment, pulls a knife on him and forces him to submit to her seduction. He is appalled but fascinated; she wants him to be a "bad boy" and hit her.

These sequences have great power. They make "9 1/2 Weeks" look rather timid by comparison, because they do seem genuinely born from the darkest and most despairing side of human nature. If "Blue Velvet" had continued to develop its story in a straight line, if it had followed more deeply into the implications of the first shocking encounter between Rossellini and MacLachlan, it might have made some real emotional discoveries.

Instead, director David Lynch chose to interrupt the almost hypnotic pull of that relationship in order to pull back to his jokey, small-town satire. Is he afraid that movie audiences might not be ready for stark S & M unless they're assured it's all really a joke? I was absorbed and convinced by the relationship between Rossellini and MacLachlan, and annoyed because the director kept placing himself between me and the material. After five or 10 minutes in which the screen reality was overwhelming, I didn't need the director prancing on with a top hat and cane, whistling that it was all in fun.

Indeed, the movie is pulled so violently in opposite directions that it pulls itself apart. If the sexual scenes are real, then why do we need the sendup of the "Donna Reed Show"? What are we being told? That beneath the surface of Small Town, U.S.A., passions run dark and dangerous? Don't stop the presses.

The sexual material in "Blue Velvet" is so disturbing, and the performance by Rosellini is so convincing and courageous, that it demands a movie that deserves it. American movies have been using satire for years to take the edge off sex and violence. Occasionally, perhaps sex and violence should be treated with the seriousness they deserve. Given the power of the darker scenes in this movie, we're all the more frustrated that the director is unwilling to follow through to the consequences of his insights.

"Blue Velvet" is like the guy who drives you nuts by hinting at horrifying news and then saying, "Never mind." There's another thing. Rossellini is asked to do things in this film that require real nerve. In one scene, she's publicly embarrassed by being dumped naked on the lawn of the police detective. In others, she is asked to portray emotions that I imagine most actresses would rather not touch. She is degraded, slapped around, humiliated and undressed in front of the camera. And when you ask an actress to endure those experiences, you should keep your side of the bargain by putting her in an important film.

That's what Bernardo Bertolucci delivered when he put Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider through the ordeal of "Last Tango in Paris." In "Blue Velvet," Rossellini goes the whole distance, but Lynch distances himself from her ordeal with his clever asides and witty little in-jokes. In a way, his behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character.

What's worse? Slapping somebody around, or standing back and finding the whole thing funny?

4-0 out of 5 stars Still Powerful Film-making
I had first seen Blue Velvet in the theater when it first came out. I was confused, disturbed and, yet, inexplicably mesmerized by it. There was nothing around like it. Nowadays, film-makers try to challenge us with "innovative" cuts, digital manipulation, gratuitous sex and over-the-top characterizations.

What makes Blue Velvet still worth viewing (for those who can stomach it) is its very "conventional" film technique and character/plot development which still manages to produce a disturbing and inexplicably mesmerizing experience. I'm less confused now but much more appreciative of David Lynch's film-making. It's all pretty tightly done. Once you get through Dennis Hopper's unforgettable portrayal of a Frank Booth -- realistic and demonic -- you'll wonder why he does those bland commercials now.

4-0 out of 5 stars Lynch's best film
I'm not exactly a David Lynch fan as such; I think some of his films are too self-consciously "difficult" for their own good. But 'Blue Velvet' is definitely a personal favourite. Perhaps it's because this is one of Lynch's more straightforward works; its narrative is linear, and no characters change into a different person or become possessed by a demon halfway through the film. Of course, "straightforward" for David Lynch is still very dark and twisted. 'Blue Velvet' is an unsettling and often surreal film that explores the typical Lynch theme of a dark underworld lurking beneath a seemingly ideal community.

Even if you don't like his films, you must concede that Lynch always gets strong and interesting performances out of his actors. Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern are perfect as the wholesome all-American young couple, with MacLachlan's Beaumont equally believable as the naive innocent at the beginning of the film and the more morally ambiguous character he becomes. Isabella Rossellini is surprisingly effective as the battered victim-yet-femme-fatale Dorothy, while Dean Stockwell's memorable cameo as Ben almost steals the show. The real star, of course, is Dennis Hopper, who gives an intensely disturbing performance as the obscene gas-inhaling psychopath Frank Booth. Frank is terrifying because he's completely amoral; he is capable of literally anything and in Lynch's hands you never know what the next "anything" will be. The surreal tone of the film adds to the unease by giving several scenes (especially involving Frank) a very unreal, other-worldly quality. The term "nightmarish" is over-used, but the combination of the violent and the bizzare really does make 'Blue Velvet' feel like a nightmare, or perhaps a very twisted S&M fantasy.

As with many Lynch films, 'Blue Velvet' is difficult to categorise. It has elements of mystery, drama, film noir, and even black comedy (there's some surprisingly effective dark humour here, despite the intensity). Although not as difficult as some of his later films such as 'Lost Highway', this is still a very confronting and challenging piece of work, and is certainly not for everybody. But if Lynch's twisted all-American vision sounds like your thing, 'Blue Velvet' is probably the best place to start before tackling some of his even more experimental films. ... Read more


10. Kyle MacLachlan
Paperback: 124 Pages (2010-08-10)
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Isbn: 6130679742
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Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (February 22, 1959) is an American actor. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1982 and, shortly afterward, moved to Hollywood, California to pursue his career. MacLachlan was best known for his roles in cult films Blue Velvet as Jeffrey Beaumont, in Showgirls as Zack Carey, and as Paul Atreides in Dune, as well as his television series roles as Orson Hodge in Desperate Housewives, Trey MacDougal in Sex and the City and Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks. ... Read more


11. CZ03 BLUE VELVET Kyle MacLachlan/Dave Lynch mint '86 LC.Here’s a terrific lobby card from the original release of the David Lynch cult film BLUE VELVET featuring a great image of the ensemble cast.Lobby card is in MINT condition. No pinholes, no stains, no tears. A lobby card is an 11 x 14 inch placard advertising a movie. They were displayed in the theatre lobby to entice moviegoers to go to the box office and buy a ticket.
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12. CZ02 BLUE VELVET Kyle MacLachlan/Dave Lynch mint '86 LC.Here’s a terrific lobby card from the original release of the David Lynch cult film BLUE VELVET featuring a great image of KYLE MacLACHLAN.Lobby card is in MINT condition. No pinholes, no stains, no tears. A lobby card is an 11 x 14 inch placard advertising a movie. They were displayed in the theatre lobby to entice moviegoers to go to the box office and buy a ticket.
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13. DB07 BLUE VELVET David Lynch/KYLE MacLACHLAN Lobby Card.Here’s a terrific lobby card from the original release of the David Lynch cult film BLUE VELVET.Lobby card is in MINT condition. No pinholes, no stains, no tears. A lobby card is an 11 x 14 inch placard advertising a movie. They were displayed in the theatre lobby to entice moviegoers to go to the box office and buy a ticket.
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14. CW08 Blue Velvet Kyle MacLACHLAN/DAVID LYNCH Lobby Card.Here's a terrific lobby card from the original release of the David Lynch cult film BLUE VELVET featuring a great image of KYLE MacLACHLAN.Lobby card is in MINT condition. No pinholes, no stains, no tears. A lobby card is an 11 x 14 inch placard advertising a movie. They were displayed in the theatre lobby to entice moviegoers to go to the box office and buy a ticket.
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15. DB08 BLUE VELVET David Lynch/KYLE MacLACHLAN Lobby Card.Here’s a terrific lobby card from the original release of the David Lynch cult film BLUE VELVET.Lobby card is in MINT condition. No pinholes, no stains, no tears. A lobby card is an 11 x 14 inch placard advertising a movie. They were displayed in the theatre lobby to entice moviegoers to go to the box office and buy a ticket.
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16. Cine: Ser o no ser.(Hamlet)(TT: Cinema: to be or not to be.)(TA: Hamlet)(Reseña): An article from: Proceso
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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on May 6, 2001. The length of the article is 743 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cine: Ser o no ser.(Hamlet)(TT: Cinema: to be or not to be.)(TA: Hamlet)(Reseña)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 6, 2001
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 70

Article Type: Reseña

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