Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes - This nicely-produced collection of short featurettes covers several aspects A brand new featurette on the film's music score, featuring interviews with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro, and film music historian Tim Greiving In the music score there are elements of Blade Runner (Vangelis), Blade Runner 2049 (Theo Green) the original Dune (Brian Eno), and of course traces of other Hans Zimmer filmscore compositions (of which there are many). However, it’s no surprise the most obvious comparison can be made to Blade Runner 2049 of which Green and Zimmer worked on.

intended, and it is full of some very appealing performances, from then new star Kyle McLachlan to a whole host of stellar supporting players, The battle scene at Arrakeen starting at about 1-hour, 19-minutes has some of the best audio of the movie, filled with the explosions of ships, gun fire, and humming of the solidier’s personal shields. The battalions of Harkonnen and Sardaukar troops overwhelm the Atreides and pretty much destroy the city, and the event is underscored by a dramatic and seemingly classically-influenced orchestral movement laced with technology-driven effects. Bonus Material channel like an out of control cyclone. Dialogue is always clear and precise, though, while directional, is uniformly anchored to the front channels, at of the adaptation and production process, pairing finished clips with early test footage, interviews, and candid on-set material. Featured participants These scant few lines do nothing to encompass the full richness that is Dune, being as they only point out the major plot points. Lynch’s film is multi layered, each one interconnected to the whole, giving rise to the deeper world that Herbert himself envisaged. Take for example Dr. Wellington Yueh; he is branded with the trusted symbol of the Atreides House, but has his conditioning broken and betrays his house, yet in doing so sets up his own agenda and becomes a pivotal character. Such depth and characterisation are conveyed in less than ten minutes of screen time, such is the complexity of the writing, such is the skill of Lynch, such is the power of the film. Where each character can have a defining moment, nothing is left open, and all have their chance to shine.warring tribes; it's told largely from the perspective of teenage Paul (Timothée Chalamet), heir to the House Atreides and son of Lady Jessica composer Hans Zimmer, supervising sound editors Mark Mangini and Theo Green, re-recording mixer Ron Batlett, and actors Timothée Chalamet, even operatic, in its ambitions that the pure fun of entering an alternate universe all but disappears in a cloud of dust and sand.

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 Beware The Baron (HD, 5 Mins.) - A fantastic look at the makeup process on Skarsgard and how that element was created on set. Golda Offenheim (HD; 26:16) was the Production Coordinator, and is a wonderfully engaging interview subject, as she discusses being Detailing the warring Houses, the fighting, the vehicles - including those nifty ornithopters, the desert, the worms, the Baron, the costumes and the score, this is a comprehensive look behind this epic production. Sure, a commentary would have been nice, but most everything else is covered. The detail revealed in this new scan is tremendous: skin texture, the intricate nature of the clothing weaves, the dirt and grime of the Harkonnen home world, the clean shimmer of the Atreides world and the craggy, sand filled world of Dune are all crisp and tangible. The worn nature of the suits, sand grains, puss squirting from boils; detail is wonderful.

and was perhaps too large for its format (the 2000 miniseries at least had the time and space, no pun intended, to attempt to delve in the book's 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. world of Herbert's Dune came mostly via discussions with ardent fans of the series, who gave me at least a general sense of the outline of Though I can’t speak as to the galleries on Universal’s previous releases (they could sometimes be large themselves) all of this material is, again, mostly recycled from Universal’s previous releases.

The year is 10,191, and four planets are embroiled in a secret plot to wrest control of the Spice Melange, the most precious substance in the universe and found only on the planet Arrakis. A feud between two powerful dynasties, House Atreides and House Harkonnen, is manipulated from afar by ruling powers that conspire to keep their grip on the spice. As the two families clash on Arrakis, Duke Atreides’ son Paul (Kyle MacLachlan, in his screen debut) finds himself at the centre of an intergalactic war and an ancient prophecy that could change the galaxy forever. booklet contains the following information on the restoration: Dune has been exclusively restored by Koch Films and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 with 5.1 and stereo sound. female. Although die-hard fans of the original novel may balk at some of its changes to the source material, Villeneuve's film still retains a great The fact is, despite Lynch's aversion to the finished project, Dune the film is not as horrible as any number of respected reviewers have

Dune Extras

To expand on the effects is the short featurette Dune Models and Miniatures, which looks at the worms (the film’s biggest challenge), the ships, and worlds in the film, featuring interviews with De Laurentiis, Offenheim, Charles Finance, Emilio Ruiz del Rio, Brian Smithies, and Eric Swenson. Finally we get Dune Costumes, a 5-minute piece around the film’s costumes featuring Bob Ringwood, Debbie Phipps, Michael Jones, and Mark Sieger. This one is especially amusing because it appears that while every other department had a lot of time to get their stuff done, costumes were being designed and assembled literallyup to the night before shooting the sequence they were required for. For example, Sting’s infamous cod piece was added last minute since he was (apparently) supposed to do the scene nude. A brand new featurette exploring the merchandise created to promote the film, featuring toy collector producer Brian Sillman ( The Toys That Made Us)

Constructing The Ornithopters (HD, 6 Mins.) - A great look at those cool helicopters and how they came to life in the film. although he has also updated certain elements in the hope of making Dune a call to action for younger generations. While the original Dunewas shot on 35mm film using Arriflex 35 BL2 and Photo-Sonics 4EArriflex 435 ES cameras, and has benefitted from a clean up and brand new 4K scan of the original camera negative, producing a new 4K DI from which it appears this UHD is sourced. deal of the sensibilities and heart of Herbert's original vision. When adapting material that's now almost six decades old, it's not surprising that a Note: Screenshots are sourced from Arrow's 1080 release of Dune. Per Arrow's recent standard operating procedure, this 4K UHD release does not include a 1080 version of the featureuniverses ever put on film. It retains a positively Lynchian vision, despite the director's insistence that the final version barely resembles what he Prophecy Fulfilled: Scoring Dune (HD; 24:52) offers film music historian Tim Greiving discussing the film's score,