If that was not enough to sell you on it, be sure to check out some clips from the Blu-ray including an exclusive clip to provided to Dugpa.com.

Blue Velvet – Exclusive Blu-ray Clip – Available on Blu-ray on 11/8.

Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Strange World Redux”

Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Do It For Van Gogh”

Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Dorothy Vallens Intro”

Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Nightmare”

Blue Velvet – RED BAND Film Clip: “On the Hunt”

Blue Velvet – RED BAND Film Clip: “PBR at Ben’s”

Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Robin Dream”

Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Strange World”

Blue Velvet – Film Clip: “Underworld”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “The Robin”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “American Surrealism”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “Casting Jeffrey Beaumont”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “Casting Sandy Williams”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “Chicken Walk”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “Hands On”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “Legacy”

Blue Velvet – Bonus Clip: “Theatrical Trailer”

Blue Velvet – NEW Bonus Clip: “Depression”

Blue Velvet – NEW Bonus Clip: “Jeffrey Gets Called Home”

Blue Velvet – NEW Bonus Clip: “Lincoln Lot Pictures”

Blue Velvet – NEW Bonus Clip: “Piece of Cake”
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So here’s the deal. If you would like a shot at winning one of 5 copies of the film on Blu-ray here’s what you need to do:

Film a short video of you, your friends, or a tribute of any kind to the movie Blue Velvet. It can be an impression of a character or a re-creation of your favorite scene. Once you’ve filmed it, post it on Youtube or Vimeo and send us the link. Our top 5 favorite entries will receive a copy of the Blu-ray sent out on release day. The top entries will be featured on the main page and be tweeted out to our Twitter followers. Your video should be less than 5 minutes long. It can be filmed on any type of camera.

All participants must have a shipping address within the US or Canada to qualify for a prize. Entries must be received by Monday, November 7th at 12:01am. Good Luck!

Our current entries:

1. Frank beats Willard in a bar. – 03:13
2. A neighbor sees Jeffrey’s dad unconscious in his yard. – 0:26
3. Jeffrey is recalled from college when his father suffers a brain hemorrhage. Summoned from a school dance (where he watches a date rape in progress – !) Jeffrey gets the bad news on a dorm phone. – 10:39
4. Jeffrey calls Louise. – 01:49
5. Jeffrey first sees Sandy while eating cake with her mother. He also meets Sandy’s boyfriend Mike at this time. Jeffrey and Sandy go to the Slow Club. – 12:37
6. Jeffrey’s mom criticizes him for coming back home late. – 00:53
7. Jeffrey calls Louise again. – 00:47
8. Jeffrey talks to aunt Barbara before going out. – 00:54
9. At the Williams house Jeffrey makes Mike jealous by hanging out with the couple. – 08:48
10. Jeffrey calls Dorothy but it’s Frank who answers the phone. – 02:17
11. Jeffrey goes to Dorothy’s apartment. She leads Jeffrey to the apartment roof. Dorothy almost throws herself from the roof in despair. They end up making love. – 09:16

Based on the details posted, it appears that the quality is comparable to the Blu-ray transfer as all the Deleted Scenes are presented in 1080p and have full 5.1 audio mixes. Only a few more weeks till this hits the US. It sounds like MGM/Fox knocked this release out of the park.

Thanks again to Jojos for posting the details!

“It’s like the song ‘Amazing Grace.’ The footage was lost but now it’s found.” – David Lynch

IT’S STILL A STRANGE WORLD…
25 YEARS LATER

David Lynch’s Modern Day Masterpiece Debuts On Blu-ray November 8
With Over 50 Minutes Of Never-Before-Seen Lost Footage

LOS ANGELES (September 14, 2011) – From the mind of David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, “Twin Peaks”) comes a visionary story so startling, so provocative, so mysterious that it will open your eyes to a world you have never seen before. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment celebrates the anniversary of a groundbreaking American cinema classic when the BLUE VELVET: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION makes its curtain call on Blu-ray November 8. For the first time ever, fans will see over 50 minutes of deleted scenes from the film, thought to have been lost for the past 25 years, with a transfer and color correction supervised by Lynch himself.

Beneath the surface of small-town serenity lies a dark domain where innocence dare not tread and unpredictability is the norm. It is the haunting realm of BLUE VELVET. In this “shocking, deeply disturbing, startling mixture of the heartfelt and the horrific” (Newsweek), clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan, “Twin Peaks”) realizes his Mayberry-like hometown is not-so-normal when he discovers a human ear in a field. His investigation catapults him into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving a disturbed nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini, Death Becomes Her) and a drug-addicted sadist (Dennis Hopper, Speed). Soon, Jeffrey is led deeper into their depraved existence past the point of no return.

Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Directing (Lynch) and a Golden Globe® for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Hopper), BLUE VELVET features brilliant supporting performances from Laura Dern (Wild at Heart), Dean Stockwell (“Quantum Leap”), Hope Lange (Peyton Place) and David Lynch mainstay Jack Nance (Eraserhead).

Fans of Lynch’s filmmaking may also enjoy his solo debut as a musical artist, Crazy Clown Time, which is due out November 8 from Sunday Best Recordings / PIAS in America. Lynch produced and wrote the album’s 14 original songs, which spotlight him on guitar and vocals. Critics are already buzzing about the collection of dark and quirky pop, which is available on CD and LP as well as digitally.

BLUE VELVET: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Blu-ray Special Features
Over 50 minutes of never-before-seen Lost Footage
A Few Outtakes

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BLUE VELVET: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Blu-ray (Catalogue #123887)
Street Date: November 8, 2011
Pre-book Date: October 12, 2011
Screen Format: 16:9
Audio: English 5.1 DTS – HD
Subtitles: English for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
U.S. Rating: R
Total Run Time: 2:00 hours
Closed Captioned: Yes

JB: Another question from Twitter was regarding the upcoming, I guess there is a Blu Ray edition of Blue Velvet, and the question was are there any special features or have you done anything different for that edition?
DL: Man oh man.  You know, there is a thing called b-negative, or outtakes, or lifts, that don’t make it into the film.  And in the old days, those things sat around and maybe became dangerously close to being tossed away.  Then the internet comes, and people want to see deleted scenes and things like this, so those things become more and more valuable.
So, one day I looked into seeing where the lifts were because some of these scenes on their own would be beautiful to see again.  So I find out that Dino, the producer, doesn’t know where they are.  They’ve gone.  His company went bankrupt, it was taken over by another company, and then it was sold to other companies.  No one knew where they were, they were gone.  So depressing.
Lately, those have been found.  Somewhere up in Seattle.  It’s incredible.  I’m seeing stuff I thought was gone forever.  And hopefully some of those scenes (some of them aren’t worth putting back together) will end up on the new Blu Ray. We did a 5.1 a while back and it was horrible.  And now Dean and I did a new one and it is so thick and beautiful.  It’s the mix, but it’s 5.1 killer beauty.

Read or listen to the whole interview here.

Update: Also of note theDigitalBits reported in December that Blue Velvet would be released in early 2011 by MGM and that France will see it in February, so it is possible that the Deleted Scenes could be released in France first.

Check out stills of the Deleted Scenes below:

In addition, according to an article at Blu-ray.com, Studio Canal have announced a Blu-ray release of the film in France for 2010.

Hopefully a Blu-ray release will make its way to the US including the original (extended) Pilot ending which really gives you a great perspective for how genius the Theatrical version truly is. Thanks to Justin Seremet for the news.

Thanks to Pete Martell for the news.

On April 2nd, 2002, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Jeffrey Schwarz about his work on the upcoming Blue Velvet Special Edition DVD. All I can say is that I by the looks at it, this will be the most comprehensive Lynch film ever to be released on DVD. Finally, a Lynch film is bought to DVD and done right by Lynch and the Fans. I hope you enjoy the interview.

Special thanks to John Neff, Sarah Gelbman and Alyssa Alison at MGM, and of course Jeffrey Schwarz for making this interview happen.

Dugpa: So tell me, how did you get involved with this project?

Jeffrey Schwarz: My company is Automat Pictures, a production company that specializes in non-fiction entertainment, particularly supplemental material for DVD. We’ve done lots of titles for MGM ‘ The Silence of the Lambs, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride, The Last Waltz, This is Spinal Tap. We’re currently working on Fargo and The Howling for the studio. Blue Velvet is one of the most important titles in their library, and they wanted to do something really special with it. They gave us an opportunity to put together a proposal for a Special Edition DVD and were very supportive of our ideas. The tentpole of the DVD is our documentary.

Dugpa: Mysteries of Love?

Jeffrey Schwarz: Yes, Mysteries of Love, which is a documentary about David Lynch and the making of the film. It includes interviews with all the major creative forces of the film, and very rare behind the scenes footage that we were able to incorporate into the piece.

Dugpa: So is most of the footage from the documentary, archival footage?

Jeffrey Schwarz: No. We did new interviews with Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Angelo Badalamenti, Duwayne Dunham, Frederick Elmes, Fred Caruso, the producer.

Dugpa: David Lynch?

Jeffrey Schwarz: David Lynch did not sit down for a new interview. He was aware of our project from the start and approved of our concept, and knew every step of the way what we were up to. We got in touch with a German filmmaker named Peter Braatz who made an experimental film called ‘No Frank in Lumberton.’ He was on the set of Blue Velvet in North Carolina. He made this film that’s about an hour long and has got Super 8 footage of making the film and all kinds of wonderful stuff in there. He also had several hours of vintage David Lynch interview footage that he taped when David was on a press tour in Europe for Blue Velvet in 1987. It was always our intention to do a new interview with David, but while we were in production we acquired this vintage interview footage and incorporated it into the piece. We figured we would take most of it out once we got our new interview with David. When we finished our first cut and sent it to David for his blessing, he really dug it and decided that he didn’t want to do a new interview because he liked the show just fine the way it was. So David is very much represented in the piece, although he is now represented in a more historic fashion. He’s talking about the movie when it was new which actually gives it a very interesting perspective. He talks about falling in love with filmmaking again because this was right after his depressing experience making Dune. You wouldn’t get that type of perspective now. It added an interesting twist to the documentary to have him speaking from the past. We’re really very lucky to get him in there at all because he is very selective of what he gives his blessing to. I know that he has been absent from some of the other DVD releases of his films. We were pretty nervous when we sent him our cut, since it was so important to us to have represented his work properly. I got the call from his office after he had seen the cut and he gave us a thumbs up. We were very happy about that to say the least.

Dugpa: That sounds great. As far as the running time of the documentary, how long is it going to be?

Jeffrey Schwarz: When you put it all together, it’s about 70 minutes.

Dugpa: Can you tell me, before getting this project, were you a fan of David Lynch?

Jeffrey Schwarz: I’m a huge David Lynch fan, as well as everyone else at Automat. When we got the job to do this we were walking on air, and at the same time, we were really intimidated because it is a big responsibility to get this one right. It’s one of my personal favorites, and also has a huge worldwide following and has been so influential on cinema. We wanted to satisfy all the fans of the film, and also wanted to make sure David was happy with it. We didn’t want to give away all of its secrets or attempt in any way to explain away his film. We wanted to celebrate the mysteries of Blue Velvet, which I hope we did. I remember seeing it a suburban multiplex in Douglaston, Queens when it came out and there was nearly a riot in the theater. The audience didn’t know what to make of it, whether to laugh or scream or get angry. Over the last 15 years the movie just keeps getting better. We were very lucky because everybody that worked on the film has such a special feeling for it. It changed all of their lives. As we approached people to participate in the documentary, we were getting very positive responses all across the board. They were all eager to talk about their experience making Blue Velvet, and it was the first time some of them had ever spoke on camera about it.

Dugpa: So getting back to Mysteries of Love, what more can you tell us about it?

Jeffrey Schwarz: Well, Mysteries of Love, is in no way the ‘final word’ on Blue Velvet, but it’s the first documentary that has been made about it. Some of the material we found has never been seen before by a wide audience. The interviews are so forthcoming and everyone has such a special feeling about the film, especially Isabella. We gave everybody a chance to really talk about their characters, and what they needed to pull out of themselves to make these characters come to life. It’s very exciting. Dennis Hopper talks about the troubles he was having trying to get re-established in Hollywood and how this was part of that. He was very candid about his substance abuse problems and how he had been relying on drugs and alcohol for so long that it had become a crutch for him. Around this period he was sort of throwing that away and going back to traditional acting methods, which he said worked better than anything else. You really get a sense of David as an artist as well. You get a sense for how hands on he is. There is a great story that Duwayne Dunham tells about going to the set one day, and nobody knew where David was. They looked all over for him and found him in the corner putting dust bunnies underneath the radiator in Dorothy’s apartment. The camera would never pick it up, but it shows you how hands on David is in every aspect of his films. His stamp is unmistakable in every frame.

Dugpa: Wow.

Jeffrey Schwarz: He also lets his collaborators bring their own contributions to the table as well. We wanted to touch on every facet of the process – the acting, the cinematography, production design, the sound design. There’s a section on Alan Splet. It’s also about David as an artist and touches on his background as a painter. It also talks about what the response was when the film came out. It was both celebrated and vilified. It really polarized the critics at the time. In order to show that, we were able to get a piece of Siskel and Ebert talking about the film. Ebert hated it, and still does, and Gene Siskel loved it. You really get a sense of how it split critics and audiences as well. Isabella talks very candidly about how she was blamed for the perceived failure of the film. She took a lot of the heat for it and it really upset her.

Dugpa: The documentary sounds awesome. Aside from the documentary, and brand new audio and video transfer, can you tell us what we can what else can we expect from this release?

Jeffrey Schwarz: Aside from the Mysteries of Love documentary, there is a Deleted Scenes Featurette, some promotional material, a photo gallery of behind the scenes stuff and portraits. There is a gallery of photos that Peter Braatz took on the set, and there are a few Easter eggs thrown in there too, which I’ll let you find.

Dugpa: So what can you tell me about the Deleted Scenes Featurette?

Jeffrey Schwarz: Well, I’m sure that you know that the Deleted Scenes are legendary. They have been written about, discussed, dissected’ and nobody knows where they are. I can assure you that every effort was made to find those scenes. I know that MGM had tried to find them. David had also made attempts to find them, we made our attempts to find them. Essentially, the realization was that they just aren’t around anymore. They weren’t kept. There were a few boxes left from Blue Velvet that were discovered, but the Deleted Scenes were not in those boxes. I can only assume, and I don’t know if this is accurate, but my guess is that Dino DeLaurentis is like this phoenix that is constantly rising out of the ashes and I think when DEG went under, a lot of the stuff was either destroyed or misplaced, or scattered to the winds. That’s what I assume happened to the Deleted Scenes. However, the Motion Picture Academy had hundreds of slides in their collection, which they made available to us. When we went through all these slides, we found a lot of stills that we realized were not in the movie. We figured out that they were stills from the Deleted Scenes. We separated all those slides from the rest of them and grouped them all together by scene, matching them by the screenplay, and organized them in a narrative fashion. We shot them, animated them, and added Badalamenti’s score. The piece is about 10-12 minutes, and is those scenes sort of brought to life. So until those scenes turn up in somebody’s basement, that’s the best we’re going to get. There’s a scene with Jeffrey and Dorothy on the roof when Dorothy threatens to commit suicide. There’s also the famous pool table scene at the Barbary Coast, which I guess was before Frank went up to Ben’s place. There’s a scene where Frank is attacking someone on top of a pool table, and a woman lighting her nipples on fire. I know that David was really disappointed that those scenes weren’t around. He was really happy to see what we did because he had forgotten that he had even done some of that stuff.

Dugpa: I think this is great that you guys are doing this. I know the fans are going to really love this.

Jeffrey Schwarz: I hope so. As far as long lost footage goes, those scenes are up there with Greed or the ‘Jitterbug’ scene in the Wizard of Oz. There are some pretty innocuous scenes too. There’s a scene with Jeffrey and Sandy watching TV before they have dinner at the Williams’ house. You get to see the dinner scene with Sandy’s boyfriend Mike. There’s a scene of the doctor that is taking care of Jeffrey’s father, and even a final scene where Jeffrey is giving his testimony to the cops. It looks like something right out of Twin Peaks actually. He’s sitting at a table and there’s this big log sitting right in front of him. It’s a shame that the scenes don’t exist, but this is a very tantalizing glimpse of them.

Dugpa: So can you tell me has there been any word on a possible upcoming Wild at Heart DVD from MGM, and would you be involved in it should it get released?

Jeffrey Schwarz: I’m keeping my fingers crossed. That would be really exciting. I know when I interviewed Laura Dern, she said ‘I can’t wait to talk about Wild at Heart!’ I know that movie was real important to her. It’s so great to see her in both those films because the character couldn’t be more diametrically opposed. I really hope it happens.

Dugpa: Wow. This really sounds great. This is probably the most any motion picture company has done to honor any of David Lynch’s works. I mean it when I say that the fans are just going to love this disc.

Jeffrey Schwarz: I hope so. That’s who we made it for. This is going to be the definitive Blue Velvet. Between David’s new transfer, our documentary, and everything else on the disc, you can pretty much chuck your old copy. It’s not going to get any better than this.