Arrow 4K Ultra HD Film Review

Dune (1984) • Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD [Arrow Video]

A Duke’s son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father’s evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor’s rule.

After two failed attempts to bring Frank Herbert’s epic novel Dune to the screen (most famously in the early-1970s with Alejandro Jodorowsky, then in the late-’70s with Ridley Scott), legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis renegotiated the rights to the story and its sequels in 1981. His daughter, Raffaella, then suggested they hire David Lynch to direct after seeing The Elephant Man (1980), which is an intriguing marriage of filmmaker and material. Now an acclaimed director of disturbing movies like Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), and Mulholland Drive (2001), it’s worth remembering that Lynch had only made two features at the time, and one of those was the relentlessly bizarre Eraserhead (1977). Nevertheless, his obvious visual talent had even resulted in George Lucas famously courting him to direct Return…