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Review: Take a new look (and listen) at David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’

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David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” marks its 30th anniversary with a one-week run presented by the Cinefamily. Following is an excerpt from our 1986 review:

Secrets are at the heart of David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet,” the most brilliantly disturbing film ever to have its roots in small-town American life. Shocking, visionary, rapturously controlled, its images of innocence and a dark, bruising sexuality drop straight into our unconscious where they rest like depth charges.

Lynch has become a master at giving form to what is not permitted — rage, revulsion, our darkest imaginings — and by making them tangible, lets us acknowledge them. “Blue Velvet” takes us behind the working-class American facade, beneath the Technicolor grass, literally underground to the churning turmoil of black, shiny beetles below. It’s there. It’s always there, Lynch says, if you only look and listen.

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‘Blue Velvet’

Where: The Cinefamily, Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles

When: Friday-June 2

Tickets: $12; free for members

Info: (323) 655-2510, www.cinefamily.org/films/blue-velvet-30th-anniversary-restoration/

Running time: 2 hours

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