Dune Director: John Harrison Cast: William Hurt, Laura Burton, Julie Cox
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- DVD Release Date: 06/11/2002
- Original Release: 2000
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- Sales Rank: 15,145
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Closed Caption; Director's cut with over 30 minutes of never-before-seen footage; DTS Digital Surround Sound; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround; Newly remastered 16:9 widescreen version; 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround; Audio commentary by the production team: John Harrison, Ernest Farino, Harry Miller, Greg Nicotero, Tim McHugh, Willis McNelly; "The Lure of Spice" featurette: Willis McNelly, author of the Dune Encyclopedia, gives insightful perspective on "Dune" and his longtime friend Frank Herbert; "The Color Wheel": lessons of life and light with master cinematographer Vittorio Storaro; "Walking & Talking With John Harrison": exclusive interview with the writer/director of Frank Herbert's "Dune"; "Defining the Messiah": talks with religious scholars, such as Rabbi Mordachi Finely, Elaine Pagels, Munir Shaikh, and Jungian psychologist Gabrielle Bodo; "Science Future/Science Fiction Roundtable": distinguished science fiction writers Harlan Ellison, Octavia Butler, Michael Cassutt, and director John Harrison discuss with award-winning inventor Ray Kurzweil the emerging technological paradigm shift and the moral issues that surround it, moderated by Arthur Cover; "The Cinematographic Ideation of Frank Herbert's Dune": an essay by Vittorio Storaro; Photo gallery including stills and sketches from the film; Digitally mastered; Interactive menus; Scene access; Cast and crew information
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Side #1 -- Disc I
1. Main Title/Wasteland of the Empire [2:14]
2. Responsibility for Breakfast [2:35]
3. Strange Dreams/The Test [5:37]
4. In a Fighting Mood [1:23]
5. The World of Spice [4:33]
6. An Elegant and Vicious Plan [3:15]
7. Looking for Allies [2:11]
8. Strange, Dry Planet [3:12]
9. The Value of Water [3:06]
10. A Risky Tax Scheme [3:17]
11. Traps and How to Evade Them [1:41]
12. "I Would Change Nothing" [3:19]
13. First Time in a Stillsuit? [3:24]
14. Worm Attack [5:44]
15. The Leader's Legacy [1:44]
16. Distracted by Confidence [3:01]
17. Things Change/"The Mahdi" [3:28]
18. Hunter-Seeker and the Maid [2:13]
19. Blessed Are the Incompetent [5:30]
20. Parties, Politics and Cannibals [2:40]
21. Gurney's Loyalty [6:01]
22. An Unrefined Little Princess [2:46]
23. Stilgar's Gift [5:17]
24. "Light of My World" [3:29]
25. "Traitor... the Shields!" [2:16]
26. Baron Harkonnen Keeps His Word [3:30]
27. Saved By the Fremen [6:09]
28. Into the Eye of the Storm [4:10]
Side #2 -- Disc II: Muad' Dib
1. "You've Seen the Bodies?" [1:49]
2. The Desert Duke [3:53]
3. Princess Irulan's Wrath [3:20]
4. Indiscriminate Executioner [1:17]
5. "How Is My Sister?" [3:42]
6. Running From the Worm [2:40]
7. In the Fremen's Den [5:14]
8. The Woman of His Dreams [3:29]
9. Desert Creature [2:29]
10. Learning to Kill [6:12]
11. "I Was a Friend of Jamis" [5:41]
12. Liet's Legacy [7:18]
13. Raiding the Spice Racks [3:01]
14. Plans for the Lovely Feyd [1:26]
15. Leadership Through Combat [2:38]
16. "The Navigators Are Concerned" [3:05]
17. How Creamy the Skin [4:01]
18. Party on Giedi Prime [3:19]
19. Unstoppable Desert Power [1:38]
20. Mother Ramallo's Oracle [1:53]
21. "Share the One You Love" [4:37]
22. The Secret of the Spice [1:52]
23. A New Crop of Fedaykin [3:31]
24. Baron Harkonnen's Guest [2:17]
25. "Subdue the Maker!" [2:22]
26. Sayyadina - the Consecration [2:57]
27. Wrapping Feyd Around Her Finger [7:26]
28. The Agony and the Ecstasy [3:22]
Side #III -- The Prophet
1. The Warning Shot [3:09]
2. Maud' Dib's Version of Victory [2:18]
3. The Temptation of Feyd's Uncle [3:33]
4. Alia Knows Things [2:41]
5. Visions of Grass [1:49]
6. A Challenge to the Maker [3:54]
7. The Return of Gurney Halleck [4:59]
8. "Something More Cunning" [2:14]
9. Sardaukar Asaassin [3:04]
10. Captive Guild Agent [2:57]
11. On Being an Atreides [4:14]
12. The Legend of the Kwisatz Haderach [3:04]
13. "He Could Have Killed Her" [2:51]
14. A Dangerous Trance [2:25]
15. "I Am the Tool of Fate" [6:12]
16. Trophy Princess [1:34]
17. "Long Live the Duke!" [4:44]
18. A Task for Otheym [3:10]
19. Leto's Shrine [1:07]
20. Reinvent Humanity/Harkonnen Blood [3:24]
21. "They're Coming" [4:33]
22. Muad' Dib's Sister! [3:37]
23. The Storm Is Coming [6:41]
24. Rabban's End [2:17]
25. "Paid for With the Blood of Our People" [2:28]
26. Past and Future Emperors [4:50]
27. The Last of the Harkonnen [6:09]
28. End Credits [1:57]
Editorial Reviews
Frank Herbert's 1974 novel Dune holds a special place in the modern science-fiction canon. Boasting throngs of fans and a sizeable critical following, its setting -- the planet Arrakis, after the year 10,000 -- is the genre's well-tread equivalent of William Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Sixteen years after David Lynch first brought Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic to the big screen in 1984 -- to decidedly mixed results -- the Sci-Fi Channel has adapted the classic novel as a 4 1/2 hour miniseries. The result is a richly satisfying vision of the distant future. Writer/director John Harrison's (Tales From the Darkside: The Movie) adaptation is detailed enough to satisfy avid fans of Herbert's work, and accessible enough to entrance the uninitiated. Dune follows the fate of the noble house of Duke Leto Atreides (William Hurt) who is charged to rule the desolate, sandswept desert planet Arrakis, the universes only source of Melange, a powerful spice that enhances mental performance and makes instantaneous interstellar travel possible. The Duke leaves his home world with son Paul (Alec Newman), but soon after taking control of the forbidding Arrakis, he is betrayed and Arrakis is conquered by its previous ruler, the ruthless Baron Harkonnen (Ian McNeice). Paul is left for dead in the desert, where he falls in with the Fremen, the indigenous people of Arrakis, and begins the fight to retake the planet. Despite its basic cable pedigree, the film does not skimp on production values. Dune has the look and feel of a theatrical release, and even evokes Lawrence of Arabia. Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) renders the galaxy in a gorgeous array of color. The cast, especially newcomer Newman and the always-reliable Hurt, is roundly solid. But the real star of Dune is the well-executed story -- a marvelous, engrossing tale that is finally given a chance to stretch out on-screen and breathe. Matthew Johnson, Barnes & Noble
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