Episode 323 - David Lynch's Blue Velvet

Episode 323 - David Lynch’s Blue Velvet David Lynch - the great visionary of modern cinema - has died and we are all the poorer for it. RIP Mr. Lynch. And while film fans slather your entire career with praise and hosannas, we instead salute the single film that is most important to our show, Blue Velvet. It is where all the Lynchian tropes got defined, a mash-up of 50’s melodrama and noir, blended into a milkshake of psychosexual violence as only the 80’s could allow. By most conventional metrics, this one is not considered Lynch’s masterpiece… but we disagree. Blue Velvet is his greatest film per our dimbulb view, a cornerstone film that has always bound this podcast forever to the weird, the uncanny, the trashy and the classics of cinema. And also his most quotable film EVER. It’s a strange world… 0:00 - Intros 8:05 - The Brutalist (2025) 15:20 - StarTrek: Section 31 21:10 - cover bands 24:00 - Emelia Perez (2025) 28:55 - Creature Commandos (Max) 31:30 - Severance (season 2, Apple) 38:00 - the casts of The Magnificent Seven (1960) vs The Great Escape (1963) 44:25 - Blue Velvet (David Lynch - 1986)