Release Date: Jun 11, 2002 Region: 1 Runtime: 295 mins Studio: Artisan Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC] ENGLISH: DTS Surround [CC]
Video:
Widescreen 1.77:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Subtitles: [None] Packaging: Custom Case Rating: NR Features:
Audio Commentary by the Dune production team: John Harrison, Ernest Farino, Harry Miller, Greg Nicotero, Tim McHugh Willis McNelly on Dune Featurette - Willis McNelly author of the Dune encyclopedia gives insightful perspective on Dune and his long time friend Frank Herbert. The Lure of Spice Featurette - A behind-the-scenes look at the production of the film. The Color Wheel Featurette - Lessons of life and light with Master Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro Walking and Talking with John Harrison Exclusive Interview wit the Writer/Director of Frank Herbert's Dune Defining The Messiah Featurette - Talks with religious scholars, such as Rabbi Mordachai Finely, Elaine Pagels, Munir Shaikh, and Jungian psychologist Gabrielle Bodo. Science Future/Science Fiction Roundtable Featurette - Distinguished Science Fiction writers Harlan Ellison, Octavia Butler, Michael Casutt, and Director John Harrison discuss with award-winning inventor Ray Kurzwell the emerging technological paradigm shift and the moral issues that surround it, moderated by Arthur Cover. The Cinematographic Ideation of Frank Herbert's Dune - essay by Vittorio Storaro Photo Gallery Including Stills and Sketches from Film Interactive Menus Scene Access Cast and Crew Information
Release Date: Mar 11, 2003 Region: 1 Runtime: 265 mins Studio: Artisan Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
Video:
Widescreen 1.77:1 Color
Subtitles: [None] Packaging: Custom Case Rating: NR Features:
25-Minute "Behind-the-Scenes" Featurette - An Exclusive Inside Look at the Making of "Frank Herbert's Dune" "The Cinematographic Ideation of Frank Herbert's Dune" - An Interactive Written Treatise by Vittorio Storaro "Exlusive" Cast and Crew Information Provided by Sci-Fi Channel Extensive Photo Gallery: Stills and Sketches Scene Access Interactive Menus
Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part, four-and-a-half-hour television adaptation of the author's bestselling science fiction novel, telling a more complete version of the Dune saga than David Lynch's 1984 cinema film. The novel is a massive political space-opera so filled with characters, cultures, intrigues and battles that even a production twice this length would have trouble fitting everything in. While television is good at setting a scene, it loses the novel's capacity to explain how the future works, and as with Lynch's film, Frank Herbert's Dune focuses on Paul Atreides, the young noble betrayed who becomes a rebel leader--an archetypal story reworked everywhere from Star Wars (1977) to Gladiator (2000).
Top-billed William Hurt is only in the first of the three 90-minute episodes, and while he gives a commanding performance, carrying the show falls to the less charismatic Alec Newman. This version is at its strongest in the ravishing Renaissance-inspired production and costume design and gorgeous lighting of Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor). The TV budget special effects range from awful painted backdrops to excellent CGI spaceships and sandworms. The performances are variable, from the theatrical camp of Ian McNeice as Baron Harkonnen to the subtlety of Julie Cox's Princess Iruelan. John Harrison's direction is less visionary than Lynch's, but he tells the story more coherently and ultimately the tale's the thing. --Gary S. Dalkin
Movie Database
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