Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986): Everyman Islington Screen on Green, 11pm
This 35mm presentation, also being screened on June 22nd (details here), is part of the 80s on 35mm season at Screen on the Green (all the films can be found via this link).
Chicago Reader review:
It's
personal all right, also solipsistic, intransigent, and occasionally
ridiculous. David Lynch's 1986 fever-dream fantasy, of a young college
student (Kyle MacLachlan) returned to his small-town roots and all
manner of strangeness, is replete with sexual fear and loathing,
parodistic inversions (of Capra, Lubitsch), and cannibalistic recyclings
from Lynch's own Eraserhead and Dune.
The bizarrely evolving story—MacLachlan becomes involved with two
women, one light and innocent (Laura Dern, vaguely lost), the other dark
and sadomasochistic (Isabella Rossellini), as well as with a murderous
psychopath (a brilliantly demented Dennis Hopper)—seems more obsessive
than expressive at times, and the commingling of sex, violence, and
death treads obliquely on familiar Ken Russell territory: it's Crimes of Passion with
the polarities reversed. Still, the film casts its spell in countless
odd ways, in the archetype-leaning imagery, eccentric tableau styling,
and moth-in-candle-flame attraction to the subconscious twilight.
Pat Graham
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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