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Dune
on DVD (1984)
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| Starring: |
Francesca Annis, Kyle MacLachlan, Sian Phillips, Max von Sydow, Jurgen Prochnow, Jose Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Sean Young, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Sting |
| Director: |
David Lynch |
| Studio: |
PRISM LEISURE |
| Run time: |
130 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
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| Genres: |
Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Languages: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
None |
| Released: |
23/08/2004
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Brief synopsis of Dune
David Lynch's baroque rendering of Frank Herbert's detailed, complex, and deliberately paced epic science-fiction novel is a muddled but visually stunning affair. It's 10991, and the desert planet Dune has been taken over by the Harkonnens, oppressive conquerors who desire the precious spice that lies beneath Dune's arid sands. The story concerns the attempts of a young warrior messiah, Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan), to lead the native inhabitants in an uprising against the evil empire--and battle the giant man-eating worms that guard the coveted spice.
Lynch shot much more footage than ended up in the finished film, but executive producer Dino De Laurentiis didn't want a three-hour-plus sci-fi epic on his hands, so he coerced Lynch into trimming it. The result is one of cinema's most infamous cases of personal vision colliding with studio politics. Nonetheless, Lynch still manages to cram in so many visual ideas and captures the tone of the book so well that these production issues can be easily set aside once the story starts rolling. Refusing to further edit the film for television, Lynch took his name off the director and screenwriter credits. As troubling as DUNE might have been for Lynch, the experience greatly inspired 1986's brilliant BLUE VELVET, for which audiences should be thankful.
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
Frank Herbert's mammoth cult novel, about the competition between two warring families for control of a barren planet renowned for its mind-expanding spice, is converted by director David Lynch into a dense, swirling mass of religious symbolism and mysticism. Unwieldy and confusing, it's not as bad as it seemed on release. Lynch was, reportedly, unhappy with the final cut, but his film is visually stunning — the industrial design is truly unique — and many of the scenes are among the most memorable, and original, of the genre. Kyle MacLachlan (in his film debut) stars as the “messiah” alongside an amazing cast that includes Sean Young, Francesca Annis, Sting, Patrick Stewart and Kenneth McMillan (as the decaying, bloated Baron Harkonnen, perhaps the most repellent villain ever created).
Halliwell's Film Guide
A basically simple space fiction plot is immensely complicated by a welter of characters who are not properly introduced and who indeed are mostly irrelevant. The result, which cost nearly 50 million dollars, is inaudible, invisible (because of dim lighti
Variety
"...Imaginative....Visually unique and teeming with incident....There's just about always something going on for the senses to appreciate....[The] cast is also first-rate..."
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