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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, 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.Product Identifiers
EAN5050749500946
eBay Product ID (ePID)3944805
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleDune
ActorJose Ferrer, Sean Young, Kenneth Mcmillan, Kyle MacLachlan, Max von Sydow, Sting, Dean Stockwell, Francesca Annis, Sian Phillips, Jurgen Prochnow, Everett McGill
DirectorDavid Lynch
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2005
FeaturesSpecial Edition\Documentary - 1. IMPRESSIONS OF DUNE\Interview - 1 Frank Herbert - Author\Original Promotional Film\Trailer
GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs2
Art DirectorPierluigi Basile
Costume DesignerBob Ringwood
SoundAlan Splet
Production DesignerAnthony Masters
ReviewsVariety - ...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...
Movie/TV TitleDune
Sound sourceDolby Digital 2.0\Dolby Digital 5.1
MusicToto
CinematographerFreddie Francis
Format DescriptionDVD 9