Cinema Dissection: Blue Velvet

April 19, 2025

With the recent passing of director David Lynch, SIFF would like to shine a spotlight on the filmmaker’s unique artistry by allowing SIFF audience members to determine which of his films will be the subject for our April cinema dissection. Will it be Lynch’s feature film debut, the Gothic surreal Eraserhead? His hallucinatory Wizard of Oz-inflected crime thriller Wild at Heart? Maybe you prefer Blue Velvet, his ode to the dark undercurrents of suburbia? Or Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, his audacious prequel to the landmark cult TV series?

The votes are in! Blue Velvet is the winning selection.

Join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody for a scene-by-scene deconstruction of Blue Velvet, where you’ll walk out with a preference for Heineken or Pabst Blue Ribbon.

SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this event.

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CLASS SPECIFICS
Saturday, April 19, 2025
10:00am–4:00pm PT
SIFF Film Center
$32 Sustainer | $27 Regular | $22 Member

ABOUT CINEMA DISSECTION
Cinema Dissection affords film lovers an exciting opportunity to dig deeper into the films that they love. Inspired by Roger Ebert's annual Cinema Interruptus in Boulder, CO, attendees will participate with a facilitator in a six-hour scene-by-scene, and sometimes shot-by-shot, deconstruction of the featured film. While the facilitator will certainly share their thoughts, anyone in the audience may call out "Stop" and either ask a question of the group or make an observation around a certain shot or moment in the film.

Dan Doody

About the Instructor: Dan Doody

A Seattle-area native, Dan Doody received a degree in English from Western Washington University, and began working for the Seattle International Film Festival in 1999. He programs both features and short films for the festival, serving on the WTF! committee and as the festival's lead coordinator for its Oscar® qualifying ShortsFest section. He is an enthusiast of the gothic in both film and literature, the pagan-haunted pastorals found in English ghost stories, and the seedy streets of film noir. He could quite happily live in a crumbling castle so long as it was within walking distance of a neon-lit diner on a rain-slicked city boulevard.