In a new interview with IndieWire, Rossellini responded to the late Roger Ebert’s one-star review of the 1986 film. "I didn’t read the reviews at the time [‘Blue Velvet’] came out.

Even as originally released two decades before the movie, Bobby Vinton’s title song is a love ballad that you would hear in a nightmare (or “in dreams,” as another song in Blue Velvet would ...

“Blue Velvet” is one of the strangest coming-of-age tales ever created. When infamous director David Lynch (“Mulholland Drive”) released the film in 1986, it was initially rejected by several studios ...

I ’ll never forget going to see David Lynch’s Blue Velvet at the Nickelodeon in Boston in the Fall of 1986. I had just started my senior year of high school and my interest in movies was just ...

Laura Dern Recalls UCLA Ultimatum Over ‘Blue Velvet’ Casting: “Pisses Me Off” Dern said her professors did not allow her to take a leave of absence to film David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet.' ...

Isabella Rossellini starred in David Lynch's 1986 movie 'Blue Velvet' with Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern and Dennis Hopper, among others De Laurentiis Entertainment Group/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via ...

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

The movie was panned by critics when it opened in 1984 and seemed likely to bring a sudden end to Lynch’s meteoric rise, only for him to be redeemed by his fourth feature, Blue Velvet.

"Blue Velvet" is a deeply twisted noir thriller about the seedy underbelly of small town America. It stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper, and it earned Lynch an Oscar ...