Main specs
Actor(s): Francesca Annis, Kyle MacLachlan, Sian Phillips, Max Von Sydow, Jurgen Prochnow, Jose Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Sean Young, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Sting
Director(s): David Lynch
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 1984
Running Time: 3 hours
Video Category: Television
Plot: Young Paul Atreides strugglers to gain control of Dune, an arid planet dominated by giant sandworms, but rich in a priceless life-giving substance. Based on Frank Herbert's best selling science fiction novel, with screenplay written by David Lynch. Features an extra thirty-five minutes of unseen footage and prologue.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): Castle Home Video; Pinnacle Vision
Release date: 18/09/2000
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CHV 5008
Sound: Alan Splet
Barcode: 5038456250088
Production Designer: Anthony Masters
Cinematographer: Freddie Francis
Music: Toto
Director of Photography: Freddie Francis
Art Director: Pierluigi Basile, Bob Ringwood
Costume Designer: Bob Ringwood
Band: Toto
Languages
Main Language: English
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DVD Description
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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Technical information
Special Features: Theatrical Trailer, New Liner Notes, Booklet With Production Stills, Reproduction Of Original Film Poster
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Full Frame
Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital Mono English
Professional reviews
Review: "...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..." (Variety, 05/12/1984)
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