World of Blue - Archived Forum 2007-2022

There is the Castle Home Video UK edition which is completely worthless,except for the Dennis Hopper interview.In 2002 we saw two new DVDs:the MGM release in Region 1 and the other MGM one in Region 2 & 4.These share the same extras but the R1 has superior image.Finally,in 2004 there are two more releases in Region 2:a crappy barebones release from Prism Leisure (maybe the previous MGM had gone OOP by then,but this isn't an excuse for such an awful DVD) and a 2-disc with a new documentary from Sanctuary Visual Entertainment.I already own the MGM R2 release and i wondered if someone owns the Sanctuary release and can comment on its picture quality and the Strange Desires documentary.

The Sanctuary DVD's fantastic. It looks beautiful and the Strange Desires and Moving Pictures featurettes are well worth owning. It's been deleted for a while now along with the Sanctuary 2-disc edition of Dune, which is excellent despite having no involvement from DL.

There were actually two Castle Blue Velvet DVDs released. The first was pan-and-scan and didn't include any special features and that was replaced with a second attempt which included the Dennis Hopper interview and a rubbish booklet. The Prism DVD's a budget release with a RRP of £5.99 and I didn't bother buying it.

Both Sanctuary DVDs received excellent reviews in UK film and DVD magazines but reviewers did point out the US disc includes a better documentary.

Thanks for the information. I'm glad there's somebody out there still thinking about Blue Velvet.

Thanks for the info, Digital Ghost. You've answered the question I was going to ask. The Blue Velvet DVD I currently have is just dreadful and completely spoils the movie. I'm going to get hold of the Sanctuary one now (in stock on Amazon UK) and hopefully that will be a lot better.

Many thanks
Gavin

I rather like my MGM copy. Region 1.