Jarvis Cocker is a huge lover of movies, and he cites David Lynch's psychosexual neo-noir 'Blue Velvet' as changing his approach to both cinema and his life.

Angelo Badalamenti, who created haunting, ethereal music for David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, has died. He was 85.

Blue Velvet might have been David Lynch's fourth film, but this noir masterpiece set the tone for the rest of his career.

In the film, for which Lynch was nominated for the Oscar for best director, Rossellini, who plays lounge singer Dolores Vallens, sings “ Blue Velvet” by Bobby Vinton.

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 ...

David Lynch’s 1986 classic Blue Velvet is surreal, stilted, and perverse, but it’s also the movie where his career began to make sense. Up to that point, there’d been no comprehensible ...

But more than anything, though, Blue Velvet feels as if it is the first film of the 1990s. One reason why so many critics adore it is that it was several years ahead of its time.