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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.

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EAN5050441170034

eBay Product ID (ePID)61620037

Product Key Features

ActorJose Ferrer, Sean Young, Kenneth Mcmillan, Kyle MacLachlan, Max von Sydow, Sting, Dean Stockwell, Francesca Annis, Sian Phillips, Jurgen Prochnow, Everett McGill

DirectorDavid Lynch

Release Year2006

GenreGeneral, Science Fiction

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

FormatUMD

LanguageEnglish

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...

Certificate15

FeaturesSpecial Edition, Widescreen

Movie/TV TitleDune

Sound sourceDolby Digital Stereo

Aspect Ratio2.35 Wide Screen

MusicToto

CinematographerFreddie Francis

Format DescriptionUMD

Run Time137 mins