The first cut of Blue Velvet apparently ran a full four hours, but producer Dino DiLaurentiis had given Lynch complete freedom with one c...

For aspiring writers and filmmakers, it’s easy to look at Lynch’s works and say “Why can’t I do that?” Lynch breaks a lot of rules and ge...

One more big risk the movie took... Deviation #3: The setting is inauthentic, and the movie is based on the idea of small town life, ra...

Obviously, one reason I’m tackling Blue Velvet is that it’s a more challenging movie than many of the others we’ve looked at, which means...

Updated to the sixth and final checklist! The discovery of a severed human ear in a field leads Jeffrey Beaumont on an investigation rel...