Even more than David Lynch’s other films, Blue Velvet is expressly about Good and Evil, with Frank representing the latter in a way that allows for no comforting distance whatsoever.

Reportedly, after he read the script, Hopper called director David Lynch and said, you have to let me play Frank Booth because I am Frank Booth. (Soundbite of movie "Blue Velvet") ...

It speaks to his reputation that while the sadistic nightmare fuel of Blue Velvet is a film you can easily see Hopper starring in, the quaint mainstream sports film Hoosiers seems to be a black ...

This rarely has been evoked as vividly in any cinema as by Dennis Hopper’s amyl nitrate-sucking underworld psycho moaning into his oxygen mask while really lusting for a childhood he never had.

GROSS: That's Dennis Hopper in the film "Blue Velvet," which was directed by David Lynch, who described Hopper as sort of the perfect American dangerous hero. "Blue Velvet" was one of Hopper's ...

Watch The Holdovers' Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti reveal Dennis Hopper's Blue Velvet influence: Deadline's video series 'The Film That Lit My Fuse.' ...

In David Lynch’s divinely lunatic Blue Velvet, Hopper was the gas-snorting hood Frank Booth, wailing for his mommy while he rapes Rossellini and scares the crap out of all-American boy Kyle ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable smash with "Easy Rider" and a ...

Blue Velvet turns 35 this week, and it's amazing how its story of an amateur detective and a rabid psychopath became the basis for most prestige TV.