but "Blue Velvet" shot her to stardom. In the film, she plays nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, who is mentally and ...

A film that focuses so deeply on the illusion that is the American Dream, “Blue Velvet” is becoming more relevant in the era of Donald Trump’s rule.

Nearly 40 years after Roger Ebert's one-star review of David Lynch's Blue Velvet ... who is raped and abused by gangster Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), who has also kidnapped her husband Don ...