BLUE VELVET
MGM HD, 10:00 p.m. ET
David Lynch’s 1986 super-atmospheric movie about hidden dangers lurking in the seemingly calm suburbs crystallized his approach to cinema, bringing a keen attention to visuals and sound to a soap opera plot gone frighteningly twisted. Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, who later would play pivotal characters in one or both of the Twin Peaks TV series, play innocent young lovers whose romance is interrupted and complicated by a masochistic chanteuse played by Isabella Rossellini. Dennis Hopper is evil incarnate as her dominating “daddy,” and other memorably odd roles are played by Dean Stockwell, Jack Nance, and Brad Dourif.