Beyond Imagination - Merchandising Dune (HD; 22:37) is a wonderfully entertaining piece highlighting Brian Stillman's

less prosaic approach, letting misty and dusty shots lend an aura of uncertainty to the proceedings. McLachlan is largely quite effective in his first The original 35mm camera negative was scanned in 4K resolution at Technicolor, Hollywood, USA. The film was graded at Uberproductions, Stuttgart DUNE is set in the distant, distant future, when humanity spans the entire galaxy and is theoretically ruled by the corrupt and devious Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV and his terrifying legions of Sarduakar. Balancing the emperor's might are the Great Houses, the hereditary rulers of each individual planet in the imperium, each with its own army. The most valuable substance in the universe is the spice melange, a substance which extends life and gives prescient powers to those who take it in large quantities, but also allows spaceships to "fold space" and travel instantaneously anywhere in the galaxy, "traveling without moving." This substance is found on only one planet, Arrakis, known as Dune because its a giant desert. At the story's opening, the emperor schemes to destroy a particular house of which he has become jealous, House Atriedes, by throwing his weight behind the Atreides' worst enemy, House Harkonnen.

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soundfield with a wide array of aural pleasures, not the least of which are the omnipresent wind effects on Arrakis, which whip and pan from channel to

but secretly sets up a showdown with the Atreides' arch-enemies, the Harkonnens. That, in a nutshell, is what Dune is all about, but that's version. You'll notice it right off the bat in the opening vignettes with Virginia Madsen, but some yellow chunkiness can recur at various moments,

Shelled out for this Arrow video copy, as I’m seeing the new version this weekend. Well this version looks wonderful with the set, costume designs and colour schemes, all avoiding a simple shiny look for the future. The designs for the sets keep referring to different time periods, making it more alien even now. The 3rd stage Guild Navigator is a unique design, somewhere between the Starchild of 2001 and the baby of Eraserhead. Even if some of the effects shots have dated, the miniatures and the sandworms are still triumphs. Designing Dune (HD; 8:55) is from 2005 and focuses on production designer Anthony Masters' contributions to the film. channel like an out of control cyclone. Dialogue is always clear and precise, though, while directional, is uniformly anchored to the front channels, at Impressions of Dune (HD; 39:39) is a 2003 documentary with a ton of interesting interviews, including Kyle MacLachlan,