Blue Velvet (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Finally, an item I don’t have to return due to damage. I already have the Criterion blu ray version, but seeing as this is one of my all time favourite movies, I had to get this 4k version. The packaging is decent and the inner art is good. This comes with a beautiful booklet of around 29 pages, which is well worth it. There are over 50 minutes of deleted scenes. The movie itself is superb, suspenseful at times and extremely violent and disturbing, but it is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Dennis Hopper is absolutely terrifying. This movie is for adult viewing only.

Was so pleased with the transfer and vibrant colors. Everything is fine until you get past the nightclub performance. This is where the issues begin and don't end. When Jeffrey is caught in the closet that's where the freezing and jumps start to occur. I ejected and made sure there was no scratches of any sort. Didn't find any and replayed the disc and the same problems occurred over and over again. For a favorite film from David Lynch, I must say that this disc is a big letdown. I'll just stick with the excellent bluray disc until I later decide to repurchase this title. By the way, a reviewer mentioned about the authoring of the disc being that of Trainspotting, he was correct it did display the title before I pressed play button! Criterion, get it together or you will lose your loyal customers!!!

Born out of necessity to be made, David Lynch took a huge pay cut for total control and agreed to film in the remote woodlands of Wilmington NC as Lumberton making a devil be damned contract with Dino De Laurentis as the money man to assemble very young, innocent Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, now older Issabella Rosselini, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif, Larry Nance from Eraserhead fame, plus many more luminaries numerous to mention as the necessary fuel for this blazing hot celluloid noir of forested woods meets shame and blame. I was a big fan of this film upon it's original 1986 release. Having moved on in my personal taste and vision of what I want to see I'd put this along side of Mullholland Dr. as Lynch's best films. Grabbing a huge slice of a nation's last brush of innocence meets wickedness beyond compare, we witness the undoing of characters new and original as yet never seen before in filmic history. A romance and love letter film at heart, Lynch gets all the small details right. Stuff he would later abuse in the mediocre Twin Peaks to no ends. This film reeks of authenticity, originality, and just enough intrigue to keep a Hitchcockian edge and look throughout. Made for peanuts and a small tight crew more and most have never been made before over a singular human ear. The bonus extras on the Criterion blu - ray are substantial and resemble a constant retelling over and over, each original in it's own beckoning call. This is a must for fans and newbies alike.

Great movie, Great service

I know, someone probably already used that headline. Whateves. You want creative, watch a David Lynch film. For example, this one. Getting to the point: Blue Velvet . . . blu ray . . . Criterion . . . director-authorized remaster. That ought to about cover it. Little surprise, the film presentation itself in about as close to flawless as one could hope given current technology. Vibrant colors, deep blacks, audio that ably ranges from a whisper to a scream. Two niggles. The extras are great, and the number of them are somewhat surprising given Lynch's typical antipathy to such "fluff," but my player hiccupped at one point in the contemporaneous Blue Velvet Revisited documentary. But that could be due to the age of my top-quality but aging Oppo machine. Also, some will be bewildered and perhaps annoyed by the lack of chapters in the feature. Be advised that was Lynch's intention and is typical of his approved releases. You don't have to like it (I don't much), but it is what it is.

What can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said? It's a classic, it's amazing, and this 4k UHD release is phenomenal. I wrote this review to mention something that I found amusing. Whoever over at Criterion authored this disc clearly had a major copy/paste fail. If you look at the actual disc titles, it says it's Trainspotting! :D Which is also an amazing movie. The disc contents are correct in that it is actually Blue Velvet, but the titles on the disc are for another movie. Probably someone copy/pasted the disc info from Trainspotting's 4k UHD Criterion release and forgot to change the title. I bet some intern got fired over this one! But that doesn't impact the actual movie, just thought it funny. Definitely get this release!

I may have seen "Blue Velvet" several times already, but whenever I get the Criterion Collection release of a film I've seen before it always feels like watching it for the first time! Made in 1986, right after the flop that was "Dune," this is a great mystery thriller full of pitch black humor, romance and interesting ideas and characters. What's really striking watching it again now in 2022 is to see where a lot of the style and themes explored further in "Twin Peaks" started developing here - like the sleepy small town hiding some dark and crazy secrets. The characters of Detective Williams and his daughter Sandy played by Laura Dern feel very similar in their personality to the characters of Dr. Hayward and daughter Donna Hayward in "Twin Peaks." And of course the mix of 1950's aesthetics with late 1980's, a detail that also connect the two. Is "Blue Velvet" David Lynch most accessible film? Not sure, but it is definitely his most linear and logical film not as dreamlike as, say, "Mulholland Drive" or "Twin Peaks" for that matter, but full of all that cozy weirdness that is so Lynch and that I, at least, really love. I of course recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it but is into that, and I of course recommend the luxurious Criterion release.

Arguably David Lynch's best film, I think he oversaw the transfers to Blu-Ray himself and it friggin' shows on this as well as Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive.

US Label Criterion collection have done 100% Job reissuing Blue velvet on blu-ray again even better than the 2010 reissue by MGM Criterion gave the film a new 4k HD transfer which looks amazing incredible No Grain no Dirt looks prestine 10/10 the sound quality mix is the same thou 5.1 master mix plus 2.0 master mix option aswell EXTRAS, not only is all the extras carried over from the 2010 MGM blu-ray plus a new retrospective Documentary filmed just for this Criterion blu-ray which makes this reissue all this content on 1 Blu-ray Disc worth buying 100%, oh packaging is Foldout Digi-pack not plastic case now being a Criterion reissue it's ofcourse region A locked so you need a region free player cause Australian blu-ray players are region B only the players sold from the common retailers but if you a big fan and want it anyway, then theres 3 shipping options Priority express courier option which is most fastest 3-5 days to delivery from the US but the cost is roughly $30AUD on top of the blu-ray price or if your a amazon prime member than Expedited shipping option is free of charge for orders over $49 thou the only catch with expedited shipping is the Depatch wait time is 24-48hrs just for 1 blu-ray to ship from the date you've placed the order which is Disgusting pure Laziness by amazon staff i think and theres 3rd ship option just plain standard shipping wait time is the longest from 10-15 work days so your choice which option you want, if you have spare $30 to burn just on expres shipping then do that anyway 5 stars for this criterion blu-ray no Doubt about it worth the cash buying

Bought this on the Dutch Amazon site, didn't watch it yet untill today (after the return date was expired) and apparently it doesn't work in Europe (and part of Asia, Australia, the middle east, etc). Great job to amazon to selling things that don't even work in the country from which the site I bought it from.

Exelente calidad

filmasso e não tive problemas com a entrega. tô quase completando minha coleção de blu-rays do lynch lançados pela criterion, simplesmente a melhor empresa de restauração e remasterização de filmes

just released by criterion collection....special edition 1080 blu ray of a new 4k scan of david lynch's Blue Velvet. lotsa of documentaries and cut scenes in the supplements section. this is one of the best movies of the 1980s and perhaps of all time. a small town surreal creepy study of voyeurism, abuse, violence, subtle humanistic comedy revelations, secrets and dependance and americana in general. starring dennis hopper as frank booth, isabella rossellini as the blue lady, laura dern and kyle maclachlan. this film is out there sort to speak, but one of the more digestable and straightforward ones of lynch's. a masterpiece. The transfer from the original film negative is a 3.5 out of four rating and the sound ,(including a dts HD master quality audio,) is a 4 out of 4. The extras are amazing. Definitive version.