Dune (35mm presentation)

Bar open: 4PM
Trailers & shorts: 4.40PM
Main feature: 5PM
1984 | 137 min | PG Violence
Director: David Lynch

Cast: Virginia Madsen, Kyle MacLachlan, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Freddie Jones, Everett McGill, Jack Nance.

This ill-fated production was meant to be the next Star Wars but the dense nature of the source material and David Lynch’s idiosyncratic vision made that an impossibility.

Instead, this ungainly but beautifully weird sci-fi epic has become a cult classic. If the movie’s goal was to create, like the book, a world that felt utterly alien, then Lynch and his surreal style were the right choice.

With its bizarre dream sequences, rife with images of unborn foetuses and shimmering energies, and unsettling scenery like the industrial hell of the Harkonnen homeworld, the film’s actually closer to Kubrick than Lucas.

It seeks to put the viewer somewhere unfamiliar while hinting at a greater, hidden story.