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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

Jan

19

lights

Blue Velvet (1986)

Ben (Dean Stockwell) miming Roy Orbison's In Dreams using a work light for a microphone. DP: Frederick Elmes.

Lights on the date in 1883 that #ThomasEdison first switched on overhead electric lighting.

“A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper 'Go to sleep, everything is alright'”

– Roy Orbison, In Dreams (1963)

David Lynch at his finest Anger, and Stockwell at his peak. The work light was improvised when Lynch noticed Stockwell handling it between shoots.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #lights #DavidLynch #IsabellaRossellini #KyleMacLachlan #DennisHopper #LauraDern #HopeLange #DeanStockwell #BradDourif #JackNance #AngeloBadalamenti #FrederickElmes #mystery #drama #crime #USA #1980s

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)

May

16

Compulsion (1959)

Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor.

“Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?”

#FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)

Jun

29

coffee

Compulsion (1959)

A squeaky young Stockwell and Varsi at a diner. We're looking in from the outside through an open window. The place is busy but she's all enthralled by his wit and intellect (and looks for sure). DP: William C. Mellor.

“Europe, a Stutz Bearcat, the best restaurants. You fellas really have a hard life, don't you?”

– Harold Horn, DA

#FilmDinner #coffee #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½