Blue Velvet (1986) March 2, 2006

FILM
Blue Velvet (1986)

when: Fri 3.3 - Thur 3.16 (1:30, 4, 7 & 9:30pm)
where: Film Forum (209 W Houston St, 212.727.8110) map
price: $10
Pornography was what they called it. Absorbing the wide-open sensuality that David Lynch smeared across grass lawns, picket fences, and other comforting, Peyton Place-era images of Americana, several of Blue Velvet's first-look critics closed their eyes, covered their ears, and muttered "obscene." Now, for the film's 20th anniversary, a limited-run re-release offers our shock-and-awe generation a chance to discover, en masse and in the dark, what all the fuss was about: Isabella Rossellini. Arms outstretched, lips parted and waiting, she is Dorothy Vallens, or the Blue Lady ? all quivering lust and naked despair. A symbol of the unacknowledged desires that everyone has, she is hard to look at, but never to be forgotten. (LG)

Note: Isabella Rossellini appears for the Mon 3.6 (7pm) screening.

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