Dune (1984, David Lynch)

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are preparing for or
driving to a great meal! If not, I hope you are having a great
day and we are getting you there. So we watched Dune (1984)
and wow. I don't think we could say it any better than the
director himself David Lynch. "Dune, I didn't have final cut on.
It's the only film I've made where I didn't have. I didn't
technically have final cut on The Elephant Man (1980), but Mel
Brooks gave it to me, and on Dune the film, I started selling
out, even in the script phase, knowing I didn't have final cut,
and I sold out, so it was a slow dying-the-death, and a terrible,
terrible experience. I don't know how it happened, I trusted that
it would work out, but it was very naive and, the wrong move. In
those days, the maximum length they figured I could have is two
hours and seventeen minutes, and that's what the film is, so they
wouldn't lose a screening a day, so once again, it's money
talking, and not for the film at all, and so it was like
compacted, and it hurt it, it hurt it. There is no other version.
There's more stuff, but even that is putrefied."


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How will Dune hold up?

Host: Nicolas


Defendant: Erin


Panel: Matthew and Daniel