Most movies made in Wilmington are fair to middling in terms of quality. But a few stand out for being memorably good or ...

Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.The actress recalled this week that the University of California, Los Angeles, refused to grant her a leave of absence to ...

David Lynch answered the call with Blue Velvet. Lynch was an unlikely saviour. He'd made his breakthrough in 1977 with Eraserhead , a deeply disturbing, surreal nightmare of a movie.

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.) ...

Isabella Rossellini, left, plays a masochistic nightclub singer in ‘Blue Velvet,’ directed by David Lynch, right. The 1986 movie was filmed in North Carolina.

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.) ...